Tag Archives: VMotion

SR-IOV and VMware vMotion

Working together with Intel and Dell, VMware demonstrated vMotion with SR-IOV on ESX in 2009. Continue reading

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vMotion Performance on VROOM! Videos

Todd and Sreekanth from the VMware Performance Team talk about vMotion, with a guest appearance by Eric Gray. Continue reading

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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: Pentium II Inside!

While VMware ESX exposes the latest performance-enhancing CPU instructions to virtual machines, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) takes a more conservative approach — downgrading all CPUs to masquerade as an old Pentium II. Continue reading

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Hyper-V More Stable, Just as Mature as VMware vSphere?

Microsoft Virtualization publishes an embarrassing guest post refuting vSphere advantages, doing more harm than good. Continue reading

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vSphere Console Stays Connected During VMotion

When an administrator is connected to an VMware ESX virtual machine remote console and that VM is migrated with VMotion to another host, the connection seamlessly migrates to the destination host. Hyper-V does not offer this capability. Continue reading

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