2011 Memory Press Release
Kingston Technology Report Highlights Need for IT Pros to Reassess Memory Requirements to Achieve Robust Virtual Infrastructure
- White Paper Shows Impact of Memory Overcommitment in Virtualized Infrastructure
- New "Red Tech" Blog to Provide IT Professionals with Practical Advice on Technical Issues Related to Hardware Optimization and Performance
Fountain Valley, CA -- February 14, 2011 -- Kingston Technology Company Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today released The Yin and Yang of Memory Overcommitment in Virtualization, a white paper published in collaboration with VMware®. The white paper demonstrates how a virtual machine (VM) can be impacted when an ESX server is put under memory pressure and the potential VM performance impacts that can occur. In addition to the white paper, Kingston® has launched a companion blog aimed at VMWare administrators and IT professionals who face challenges in optimizing their server memory configurations, improving performance and reducing the cost of their infrastructure - covering memory, virtualization, solid-state drives (SSD) and other relevant technologies.
The white paper's memory experiments were conducted in Kingston's Virtualization Proof-of-Concept Lab and were designed to show how memory and virtualization software work together effectively in a virtual environment. As the workload is increased, the negative impact of memory overcommitment is highlighted. These tests follow recent research from VMware and VKernel which found that VMware customers run an average of 12.5 virtual machines on each physical server, but memory limitations may prevent further progress*. With most IT professionals focusing on CPU performance and storage capacity to ensure their virtual machines run smoothly, Kingston's experiments highlight the impact of memory on such an environment and the performance losses and possible downtime when memory is underprovisioned.
"As IT managers strive for datacenter agility and improved resource utilization, virtualization is the perfect answer. However, our research shows that it is imperative that there is proper memory provisioning, careful capacity planning and performance monitoring to reap the full benefits of virtualization," said Dr. YP Chien, information intelligence manager, Kingston, and author of The Yin and Yang of Memory Overcommitment in Virtualization.
To enable IT professionals to understand more about the impact of memory overcommitment, The Yin and Yang of Memory Overcommitment in Virtualization is available on Kingston's new "Red Tech" blog
"The Kingston Tech Blog has been launched to provide answers to many of the technical questions we get on the use of memory, SSDs and other relevant technologies in enterprises," said Jonathan Anderson, director U.S. enterprise sales, Kingston. "While virtualization is the first topic area, our experienced team of engineers will continue to develop content on a variety of topics to help IT with the latest information and developments covering memory, SSD and other important technologies."
* VKernel; Virtualization Management Index - December 2010
About Kingston Technology Company, Inc.
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