Taking my last post on page sharing a little further and inspired by @VBrianGraf & @vmMarkA’s Intra TPS Host Memory Assessment tool, I wanted to create a script that would calculate the memory savings gained from inter-VM page sharing directly from the statistics available in vCenter. In my last post I showed the values that
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With an upcoming upgrade to vSphere 6 on the horizon, the subject of Transparent Page Sharing came to mind again and also the fact that I’ve had a post in draft kicking around for quite a while. Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is a memory saving technique employed by the ESXi hypervisor to reduce memory consumption
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