Phil Windley, PhD and Terry Wilcox have published a paper, "Evaluation of ESX Server Under CPU Intensive Workloads". This 32 page paper explores how configuration changes affect the throughput of virtual machines hosted on ESX Server during CPU intensive workloads. In particular, how Hyper-Threadi... Read More...

Another great tip for your Microsoft Virtual Server environment coming from the mind and web pages of Ben Armstrong. On his blog, Ben explains that under Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta 2, there is no easy way to tell whether or not your physical computer really supports hardware virtualization, or... Read More...