USB Passthrough with ESXi 4.1
Compatibility and performance of USB devices for USB Passthrough on ESXi 4.1
View ArticleFree Shared Storage for ESXi
Building an NFS Server from an ancient PC to provide a datastore for ESXi, which can then be used to backup VMs using esxi-control.pl
View ArticleLinux Guest Ballooning
The vmware balloon driver, vmmemctl, is critical to minimise vSwapping when host RAM is overcommitted, but the tools need to be installed the long way to enable the driver in Linux.
View ArticleRunning Out of Space on VMFS
Any thin-provisioned VM, or one with snapshots, depends on free space on the underlying storage. So what happens when this fills?
View ArticlevSwap with SandForce SSDs
The SandForce SSDs completely change the storage dynamic, a using then for swapping enables much higher RAM over-commitment and hence VM density.
View ArticleHow to upgrade ESXi to 4.1 Update 1 (U1)
Updating free-licensed ESXi now means using the command line, but the process is simple and explained here.
View ArticlevSphere 5
vSphere 5 seems likely to arrive in a matter of weeks - but what does this mean for VCPs?
View ArticlevSphere 5 Hypervisor (Free ESXi) Crippled by New Licensing
With only 8GB vRAM entitlement, vSphere Hypervisor 5 (free ESXi) has been crippled, and could be the last free release from vmware.
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