Just when there's that moment a 64-core processor in the consumer SOHO domain gets released, VMWare decides to change its licensing model. Thanks to AMD many processors have well .. many cores with ...

‘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 ...

Effective April 2, VMware will increase its CPU licensing pricing model for customers who have more than 32 cores. VMware channel partners talk to CRN about the market impact. VMware is doubling the ...

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 ...

I've got a 2008 (non-r2) SQL server that has been P2V'd into a vSphere 4.1 cluster. This is test SQL box, not a heavy hitter at all. Should be a great candidate to be a VM. All of the physical ...

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 ...

Various brands and configurations of virtual machine network interface cards, or VMNics, are known to cause occasional repetitive errors resulting in slowing the CPU's processing capacity. Three ...

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 ...

VMware announced this week it will price its products per CPU and not per core, assuring users that they will not be penalized for moving to emerging multi-core processors. The move follows Microsoft ...