[ Thanks to Linux User &
Developer magazine for this link. ]
“Distilling down the hundreds of possible
virtualisation tips and tricks to a mere 20 is a good trick in
itself. Many of these techniques are generic in nature and can
apply to any vendor’s virtualization; however, some are specific to
VMware. In all cases, the tips and tricks emerged by experience
with a variety of virtualization technologies.“Virtualization is about placing workloads into virtual
machines, and perhaps the most often asked questions about
virtualization have to do with performance of those virtual
machines. Therefore, most of the tips given here relate to virtual
machine performance enhancement and making the user’s experience
richer and less problematic than traditional hardware-based,
physical systems.“Other than performance, the remainder of the tips are
associated with virtualization best practices for medium to large
implementations. Although those with smaller environments will also
benefit from these tips, many of the problems they solve arise as
virtual machine numbers increase to 50 or more.”