Some of my colleagues put together a great post on "debunking the myths of memory overcommit" as I like to call it. These myths come from our competitors trying to spin the fact that they don't have the ability to oversubscribe memory in their systems. Well, to be fair, Citrix has added a balloon driver to XenServer 5 but more on that later. It's a very good post and shows the true value of the technology. Go read it now.

Even with great information like this out there I still see a lot of people balking at memory overcommitment like it's some voodoo witch magic that's going to do nothing but cause huge headaches. This is a myth primarily produced by the rest of the virtualization industry that is missing this key core feature of virtualization. This leads us to the question - is resource overcommitment bad?

To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, From the VMware Field: Mike D's Virtualization Blog: Is Overcommiting Resources Bad?

 

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