Performance, performance, performance: Roundtable #10 podcast
The always-informed and always-informing Scott Drummonds joined us again on the VMware Communities Roundtable this week. Here are some of the topics we talked about. Listen by clicking the button on the right, downloading the VMware Communities Roundtable mp3 (52:48), or subscribing to the VMware Communities podcast RSS feed or VMware Communities podcast iTunes feed.
- VMware and common performance myths from Dan Kuznetsky at ZDNet. A great overview of recent work of the performance group here at VMware and the work they've done to dispel many bits of "conventional wisdom" that are really myths at this point.
- VMmark
- OVF
- Virtualizing Oracle on VMware. One-stop shop for running Oracle on VMware Infrastructure.
- Performance Community in VMware Communities
- Tags used in performance community
- Performance Monitoring and Analysis. Great document in the community from Scott.
- 100,000 I/O Operations Per Second, One ESX Host. Great blog post detailing some recent results -- this is not your father's virtualization platform!
- VMware Storage Blog
- Nested Page Tables
- VMware engineer praises AMD's Nested Page Tables from SearchServerVirtualization. Kind of dumb title (sorry, Bridget), but it has some good quotes.
- Intel to introduce new virtualization capabilities with six-core CPU Nehalem from virtualization.info
- The second generation: Intel's EPT and AMD's NPT from AnandTech's Hardware Virtualization: the Nuts and Bolts
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