Until now I've never really had enough cores in a box to worry too much about allocating multiple vCPU's but now that I have 2x6 core 5600 CPU's in my new vSphere hosts it's something I can consider.

If you have another Virtualization application such as VirtualBox running in the background then you will see the error in question. You need to close all of them ...

2011 was a year where despite the economic constraints everything Big was seemingly good; Big Data, Big Clouds, Big VMs etc. Caught in the industry’s lust for this excess, 2011 was also the year I ...

Just wondering - has anyone tested the scalability of multiple vCPU-s in KVM lately? I found some old tests ran on some PCs, but no information about real server hardware and workloads. I have been ...

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When provisioning virtual machines, either from a new build or during a physical-to-virtual conversion, questions will always come up on how many virtual processors to assign to the host. The standing ...

Amazon Web Services has flicked the switch on a pair of workstation-grade cloud desktops that, ironically, highlight a problem with the tech.… The cloud giant’s desktop-as-a-service offering is called ...

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