You may have read or heard that VMware will disable the ability to share memory pages “between” virtual machines (Inter-VM Transparent Page Sharing) by default (in ESXi 5.0/5.1 and 5.5) in coming updates and the next major ESXi release. In…
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In some special cases it is recommended by a software manufacturers to disable hyperthreading. But how can you disable hyperthreading for a specific virtual machine? You can do this in the “Virtual Machine Properties Tab” by editing the “Advanced CPU”…
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There are not many reasons why you want to disable VAAI on your ESXi hosts… But sometimes you have to… for example, if you need performance logs to compare VAAI and non-VAAI behavior on your NetApp Storage *grr* You can…
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