Thursday 24 September 2015

VMworld 2015 Session Videos - YouTube

VMware has slowly been releasing VMworld session videos on their YouTube channel. Have a look and see what you might need to catch up on




https://www.youtube.com/user/VMworldTV/featured

Monday 7 September 2015

Memory Overhead with Powered on VMs


At times when you are doing resource pools within VMware we tend to forget about the overhead requirements when machines are powered on. So sometimes VMs won't power on because we have forgotten about the overhead memory that we need to assign to the resource pool as well.

Below are the common specifications for VMs and the overhead requirements for them


These figures have been taken out from http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/solutions/SQL_Server_on_VMware-Best_Practices_Guide.pdf

New Azure KMS IP and domain Addresses for activation

For Windows virtual machines deployed into Azure using marketplace images you may have created rules in your NSG or firewalls to allow the s...