[excerpt] Ben Armstrong: Jeff has discussed this at some length over on the virtualization team blog, but as a general rule of thumb we believe that it is much better to have paging occur inside the guest operating system rather than at the virtualization layer (if paging is needed). The simple reason...
[excerpt] After installing the service pack 1 beta on Windows Server 2008 R2 you will see that virtual machines have a new setting for memory. The Memory priority... [/excerpt]
[excerpt] Ben Armstrong: Here is a good question – what happens if you install Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 beta, open the settings on a virtual machine, enable dynamic memory – but the guest operating system does not support dynamic memory? [/excerpt]
[excerpt] Ben Armstrong:If you have not tried out dynamic memory yet – here is a handy step-by-step guide for how to get it setup. The first thing you need to do is to install the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 beta release. To do this you should: Download the beta from here: http://www.microsoft.com...
[excerpt] Jeff Woolsey, Principal Group Program Manager: In my last blog, we covered some follow-up questions about Page Sharing. Today, we'll discuss Second Level paging. To discuss the implications of using Second Level Paging, let's put virtualization aside, take a step back and level set...
[excerpt] Jeff Woolsey: When it comes to virtualization and memory, I regularly hear the term “memory overcommit” used as if it’s a single technology. The problem is that there are numerous techniques that can be employed to more efficiently use memory which has led to much confusion...
[excerpt] The point of this series, and the spirit in which it is written, is to take a holistic approach at the issues facing our customers, discuss the complexities with regard to memory management and explain why we’re taking the approach we are with Hyper-V Dynamic Memory. This isn’t...
[excerpt] James O'Neill: Dynamic memory is not the same as the abilities found in VMware. Briefly, VMware can swap memory to disk at the virtualization layer. Just because it can, doesn’t mean it should: swapping to disk is best managed by the OS which can prioritize what should stay in memory...
[excerpt] Jeff Woolsey: I’ve had the pleasure of talking with customers in the last few months and the Hyper-V R2 reception has been nothing but unequivocally positive. Whether it’s been folks in small, medium or the enterprise, they appreciate the new capabilities in Windows Server 2008...