Thoughts on changes to TPS behavior in vSphere

This week VMware released a blog post and several knowledgebase articles about Transparent Page Sharing (TPS).  In the next patch for ESXi, TPS will be disabled by default between virtual machines.  TPS is the technology that allows virtual machines running on the same ESXi host to share identical memory pages, allowing ESXi to overcommit memory.  This technology has been part…

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