Ever wondered what it takes to debug performance issues on a VMware stack? How do you figure out if the performance issue is in your virtual machine, or the network layer, or the storage layer, or the hypervisor layer?

Here’s a handy tutorial that showcases a systematic approach for troubleshooting performance using tools like Esxtop, vSCSI stats and Net stats on a VMware stack. The tutorial also talks about some very useful optimizations and performance best practices.

Thanks to Ramprasad K. S. for putting together the slides based on his vast experience dealing with customer issues. Thanks also to Ramprasad and Sai Inabattini for presenting this at the CMG India 2nd Annual conference in Bangalore in November 2015, which was received very well.