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Mark Achtemichuk

About Mark Achtemichuk

Mark Achtemichuk currently works as a Staff Engineer within VMware’s R&D Operations and Central Services Performance team, focusing on education, benchmarking, collaterals and performance architectures.  He has also held various performance focused field, specialist and technical marketing positions within VMware over the last 7 years.  Mark is recognized as an industry expert and holds a VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX#50) certification, one of less than 250 worldwide. He has worked on engagements with Fortune 50 companies, served as technical editor for many books and publications and is a sought after speaker at numerous industry events.  Mark is a blogger and has been recognized as a VMware vExpert from 2013 to 2016.  He is active on Twitter at @vmMarkA where he shares his knowledge of performance with the virtualization community. His experience and expertise from infrastructure to application helps customers ensure that performance is no longer a barrier, perceived or real, to virtualizing and operating an organization's software defined assets.

Extreme Performance Series at VMworld 2019

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I’m excited to announce that the “Extreme Performance Series” is back for its 7th year with 14 sessions created and being presented by VMware’s best and most distinguished performance engineers, principals, architects, and gurus. You do not want to miss this years program as it’s chock full of advanced content, practical advice, and exciting technical details!

Breakout Sessions

Spread across 4 different VMworld tracks, you’ll find these sessions full of performance details that you won’t get anywhere else at VMworld. They’ll also be recorded, so if the sessions you want to see aren’t being hosted in your region, you’ll still get access to it.

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Extreme Performance Series at VMworld 2018

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I’m excited to announce that the “Extreme Performance Series” is back for its 6th year with 14 sessions created and being presented by VMware’s best and most distinguished performance engineers, principals, architects and gurus. You do not want to miss this years program as it’s chalk full of advanced content, practical advice and exciting technical details!

Sessions

Spread across 5 different VMworld tracks, you’ll find these sessions full of performance details that you won’t get anywhere else at VMworld. They’ll also be recorded so if the sessions you want to see aren’t being hosted in your region, you’ll still get access to it.

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What’s New in Performance – VMware vSphere 6.7

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Underlying each release of VMware vSphere are many performance and scalability improvements. The vSphere 6.7 platform continues to provide industry-leading performance and features to ensure the successful virtualization and management of your entire software-defined datacenter.

The What’s New in Performance for vSphere 6.7 white paper highlights significant scale and performance items such as:

  • 2x increase in VMware vCenter Server Operations Per Second over the 6.5 release
  • Support for 1GB Large Memory Pages
  • vmxnet3 enhancements to RSS and VXLAN/Geneve Offloads
  • Performant support of new Persistent Memory offerings

As with each release I’m excited about these new capabilities and the performance each of them offers.

Document: What’s New in Performance for vSphere 6.7

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Highlights from: The Extreme Performance Series at VMworld 2017

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Thank you to everyone who attended VMworld 2017 and especially those that participated in this year’s Extreme Performance Series.  While the conference is wrapped up, the content created and presented there, is now available to everyone! So grab a chair and advance your performance skill set.

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The Extreme Performance Series at VMworld 2017

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I’m excited to announce that the “Extreme Performance Series” is back for its 5th year, and with 7 additional sessions, it’s our largest year ever! These sessions are created and presented by VMware’s best and most distinguished performance engineers, principals, architects and gurus. You do not want to miss these advanced sessions.

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NEW VMworld 2017 Bootcamp – vSphere Advanced Performance Design, Configuration and Troubleshooting

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New this year for VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, we will be offering a pre-VMworld bootcamp focused on vSphere platform performance. Specific SQL and Oracle bootcamps will still be offered, but we have had many requests for a workload agnostic program. This bootcamp will enable you to confidently support all your virtual workloads and give you an opportunity to directly interact with VMware Performance Engineering.

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Virtual Machine vCPU and vNUMA Rightsizing – Rules of Thumb

[Updated 18 July 2019 – correction in the example where only compute is considered for vNUMA]

[Updated 20 Oct 2017 – ‘NEW’ with Memory Considerations]

Using virtualization, we have all enjoyed the flexibility to quickly create virtual machines with various virtual CPU (vCPU) configurations for a diverse set of workloads.  But as we virtualize larger and more demanding workloads, like databases, on top of the latest generations of processors with up to 24 cores, special care must be taken in vCPU and vNUMA configuration to ensure performance is optimized.

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