The following is a register of all Example Architectural Decisions related to Transparent Page Sharing on VMware ESXi following the announcement from VMware that TPS will be disabled by default in future patches and versions.

See The Impact of Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) being disabled by default for more information.

The goal of this series is to give the pros and cons for multiple options for the configuration of TPS for a wide range of virtual workloads from VDI, to Server, Business Critical Apps , Test/Dev and QA/Pre-Production.

Business Critical Applications (vBCA) :

1. Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) Configuration for Virtualized Business Critical Applications (vBCA)

Mixed Server Workloads:

1. Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) Configuration for Production Servers (1 of 2)

2. Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) Configuration for Production Servers (2 of 2) – Coming Soon!

Virtual Desktop (VDI) Environments:

1. Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) Configuration for VDI (1 of 2)

2. Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) Configuration for VDI (2 of 2)

Testing & Development:

1. Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) Configuration for Test/Dev Servers (1 of 2) – Coming Soon!

2. Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) Configuration for Test/Dev Servers (2 of 2) – Coming Soon!

QA / Pre-Production:

1. Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) Configuration for QA / Pre-Production Servers

Related Articles:

1. Example Architectural Decision Register

2. The Impact of Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) being disabled by default – @josh_odgers (VCDX#90)

3. Future direction of disabling TPS by default and its impact on capacity planning – @FrankDenneman (VCDX #29)

4. Transparent Page Sharing Vulnerable, Yet Largely Irrelevant – @ChrisWahl (VCDX#104)