‘AMD has a few levels above 32 cores. For those that are, we tried to be as flexible as possible in giving customers a fair amount of time to grandfather them in with the goal being zero impact to our ...

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VMware this week announced an update to its per-CPU pricing model that will increase costs for some customers in certain situations. "While we will still be using a per-CPU approach, now, for any ...

VMware eases the use of SmartNICs based on digital processing units to handle networking, security, storage, and other processes, freeing up enterprise-server CPU cycles. While it is clearly early in ...

VMware Workstation supports two mechanisms to create copies of VMs: full and linked clones. [Click on image for larger view.] A full clone makes an exact copy of the files that make up the VM. In ...

Targeting enterprises that want to consolidate servers, the combination of ESX Server 2 and the Virtual SMP add-on lets IT get more bang for their server hardware buck, said Mike Mullany, senior ...

A virtual machine (VM) vulnerability that compromises AMD Zen and Intel Coffee Lake CPUs has been discovered. Revealed last month by researchers at ETH Zürich who described it as the first of its kind ...

Well, you could do a CPU mask on each VM and make it so each VM only sees "it's" CPU. It would still get scheduled by the hypervisor but in a sense it would be dedicated. I'm not sure why you would ...

We are looking at getting some large machines for our new VMWare infrastructure. One of the questions that have been asked is how much memory should we have per core? We currently use blades with 4 ...

VMware, the EMC subsidiary whose software lets a computer run multiple operating systems simultaneously in separate "virtual machines," has grown a step more ambitious. The initial version of the ...