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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I previously wrote a poston enabling Powershell Remoting over HTTPS. This has led to be carrying out a little more investigation on the security and certification considerations. For example, when creating the HTTPS listener the thumbprint is specified, but what happens when the certificate is renewed and the thumbprint changes? As a quick recap, we
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