Are users complaining of poor application performance? Demanding more resources to compensate?
Do you know where to start looking for issues? Are you confident you have the right configuration in place?
Watch this breakout session, delivered by VMware’s most experienced performance gurus, to answer these questions and more. This session will explain the most important performance practices that need to be applied across the stack, from application to hardware.
Based on real customer case studies, the goal of this session is to empower you to identify the most common performance issues and remediate them by applying best practices. Leave with the tools, methodologies, configurations and confidence you can provide maximum performance to all your users and their applications.
Don’t have time to watch the full session? Here’s a rundown of key takeaways:
1. Understanding Resource Utilization: The session explained how to identify resource utilization at different levels, from the application to the hardware. It covered topics like hierarchical resource groups, resource pools, and CPU usage metrics.
2. CPU Performance: The session delved into the details of CPU performance, including vCPU accounting, CPU states, and CPU features. It highlighted the importance of understanding CPU utilization and the impact of CPU features on performance.
3. Virtual Memory Management: The session discussed virtual memory management and its role in providing a contiguous address space and isolation for processes. It explained the concept of address translation and the use of specific-sized pages for efficient memory management.
4. Turbo Boost and Power Management: The session explored the concept of Turbo Boost and its impact on CPU frequencies and performance. It also discussed power management policies and how they can affect CPU performance.
5. BIOS and ESXi Host Power Management: The session provided insights into BIOS and ESXi host power management and how they can be configured to optimize performance. It discussed different power management policies and their impact on CPU performance.
6. Leveling the Playing Field: The session offered recommendations for leveling the playing field and optimizing performance. It suggested using ACPI for C-States, enabling deep C-States, and configuring ESXi power management policies.
7. Vendor-Specific Recommendations: The session provided vendor-specific recommendations for configuring power management settings. It covered Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Fujitsu systems and highlighted the specific settings to optimize performance.
8. Power Metrics: The session explains how vSphere sources hardware power metrics and how it accounts energy to individual VMs. It illustrates how these metrics have improved in vSphere 8.0 GA and Update 1.
9. Additional Resources: The session concluded by providing additional resources for attendees to further explore performance optimization. It mentioned VMware documentation, performance best practices, the VMware Topology Blog, and the VROOM! Performance Engineering Blog.
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