Paravirtual adapters with VMware Workstation

Did you know that you can use VMware paravirtual VMXNET3 and PVSCSI adapters with VMs running on VMware Workstation? Paravirtual adapters will improve networking and disk IO performance by using valuable CPU cycles more efficiently.

VMware paravirtual adapters are not available through VMware Workstation GUI, but you can enable them by tweaking Virtual Machine’s [...]

VMworld 2012 Europe dates changed

VMworld 2012 Europe dates have changed since first announcement in Copenhagen, VMworld 2012 Europe will be held in Barcelona on October 9th to 11th. Although not officially announced yet, most likely venue for VMworld 2012 Europe is Barcelona International Convention Centre.

vSphere ESXi 5.0 Driver Rollup 2 released

VMware has released ESXi 5.0 Driver Rollup version 2 which is a ESXi 5.0 installer with additional device drivers for products which are not supported in official ESXi 5.0 install image. vSphere ESXi 5.0 Driver Rollup install image is supported only for fresh installs, migrations from ESX 4.x or upgrades from ESXi 4.x are [...]

Configuring multi-NIC vMotion on vSphere 5

vSphere 5 introduced support for utilizing multiple network interfaces per single host for vMotion transfer. This is very useful feature for systems which are limited to 1 Gigabit network as migrating multiple VMs off a host can take very long time with 1 Gigabit vMotion network. Multiple NIC vMotion also allow larger workloads to [...]