Summary: Have you ever wondered how to quantify the benefits of virtualization to your management? If so, please consider using vBenchmark. vBenchmark measures the performance of a VMware virtualized infrastructure across three categories: – Efficiency: for example, how much physical RAM are you saving by using virtualization? – Operational Agility: [...]
Hi. I’m pretty sure that the Checksum Offload causes a bunch of network slow downs – especially in a virtual environment. Whenever a customer says that it takes a good few seconds to open i.e. a Word document, placed on a share, I always disable Checksum Offload wherever possible on the NIC, inside the VM. [...]
If you’ve upgraded to or installed ESX(i) 4.0 you’ll see that you have an advanced option to pick which virtual machine hardware version to use for your new VMs. As noted in the image below, the virtual hardware version will determine which other VMware products the VM can be run on. Virtual machine version 7 [...]
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