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What is it? TPS (Transparent Page Sharing) is a proprietary functionality in VMware ESX(i) which essentially does deduplication of memory pages used for virtual machines. To put it in other words: Identical memory content across multiple machines only consume memory one time....
Once there was a DRS-enabled cluster with a mystery: When trying to start a virtual machine, the very generic error Insufficient resources appeared. However further checking all hosts in the cluster reveals that there’re enough resources left to start this specific virtual...
When attaching any kind of USB devices, the service usbarbitrator claims those devices to allow passing through USB devices into virtual machines. This is (one of) the reason you won’t see USB sticks as "Storage Devices" on your ESXi, therefore not allowing...
Durch die Umstrukturierung meiner privaten IT-Umgebung Zuhause wollte ich zugleich meine vorhandene VMware ESXi-Installation auf meinem HP MicroServer Gen8 aktualisieren: Nämlich von der Version 5.5 Update 1 auf 5.5 Update 2. Als Installationsmedium kam die von HP angebotene ESXi-ISO mit den dazupassenden Treibern zum...
