The discussion about number of vCPU for VM is flowing around from time to time. There is no simple answer on that questions as well as there is no Best Practice as such. Answer depends on various factors such as: Is installed application SMP aware ? what are the software vendor requirements ? Keep in mind that software vendors always overestimates in terms of hardware requirements How big is NUMA node on server What is expected vCPU...

Few days back Vkernel releases nice tool, vOPS server explorer and it is for free :-0 , I know, it is not usual to get something good and free of charge from vKernel but this time it is worth to look at it closer. vOPS server explorer is a virtual appliance running on OpenSuse and it is available in ovf package which you can download from vKernel website. Configuration is very simple and intuitive, like almost every modern tool management...

One of the biggest challenge in managing virtual infrastructure is proper Capacity management of your infrastructure. if anyone had performance problems on the vm because of overloaded ESX Server knows what I am writing about. VMware release technical paper about Capacity IQ, which helps Administrators to mange capacity properly for their Virtual Infrastructure. Demo license is for 60 days, it’s enough if you wanna know what is going...