VMware vSphere Performance Management Challenges and Best Practices

 
Ever wanted to know what affects CPU Performance in vSphere? What a World is? How and why ESX uses memory reclamation techniques? Or why it is recommended to install VMware Tools?

I’m running a free to attend webinar tomorrow which will identify and highlight the key performance management challenges within a vSphere environment, whilst providing best practice guidelines, key metrics for monitoring and recommendations for implementation.

I’ll be focusing on the key resource areas within a virtualized environment, such as CPU, Memory, Storage and Network and also provide an introduction into Virtualization Performance challenges and some further information on VM performance and virtualizing applications.

• Challenges of x86 virtualization
• Four levels of privilege (Ring 0 – 3)
• Hardware – Intel VT-x and AMD-V
• Software – Binary Translation
• Memory Management – MMU
• Default Monitor Mode
• CPU Performance Management
• What is a World?
• CPU Scheduling – why is it important to understand how it works?
• SMP and Ready Time
• NUMA Aware
• What affects CPU Performance?
• Host CPU Saturation?
• Causes and resolutions
• Increasing VM efficiency
• Timer interrupts and large memory pages
• ESX Host pCPU0 High Utilization – why is this bad?
• Memory Performance Management
• Memory reclamation – how and why?
• What do I monitor and what does it mean?
• Troubleshooting tips
• vSwp file placement guidelines
• Networking
• Reducing CPU load using TCP Off-Load and Jumbo Frames
• What is NetQueue and how will it benefit me?
• What to monitor to identify Network Performance Problems
• Storage
• Setting the correct LUN Queue Depth
• Key metrics what to monitor
• Identifying key factors of Storage Response Time
• Overview of Best Practices
• Virtual Machine
• Selecting the right guest operating system – why does this matter?
• VM Timekeeping
• Benefits of installing VMware Tools
• SMP – Only when required
• NUMA Server Considerations
• Applications
• Can my application be virtualized?

Why not come along and discover these and many more VMware vSphere performance management challenges and best practices http://www.metron-athene.com/training/webinars/index.html

Jamie Baker

Principal Consultant