VMware vSphere Performance Monitoring: Tuning vSphere Resources
Part 2 of 3 of the VMware vSphere Performance Monitoring series focuses on how to tune vSphere resources to optimize virtual infrastructure performance.
What you'll learn
Part 2 of 3 of the VMware vSphere Performance Monitoring series focuses on how to tune vSphere resources to optimize virtual infrastructure performance. If you are interested in quickly solving performance issues and optimizing your virtual environment, as well as minimizing downtime and reducing waste of server resources, then this is the course for you. You’ll learn how vSphere uses resources like CPU, memory, disk, network, and how to make your vSphere infrastructure perform efficiently. You’ll also learn to properly size virtual machines, use DRS, and troubleshoot vSphere performance. This course is recommended for those who have existing VMware vSphere knowledge who want the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform advanced performance monitoring of their vSphere deployments.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Analyzing Host and VM Memory 7m
- Memory Metrics You Must Know 7m
- Monitoring Memory Metrics with the vSphere Client 8m
- Monitoring Memory Metrics with esxtop 8m
- How You Know When Host Memory is the Problem 5m
- How You Know When Guest Memory is the Problem 5m
- 6 Ways to Solve Memory Performance Issues 5m
- What We Covered 2m
- Introduction 1m
- Speed and Duplex 3m
- Critical Networking Performance Metrics 2m
- Monitoring Network Metrics with the vSphere Client 3m
- Monitoring Network Metrics with esxtop 5m
- How You Know When the Network is the Problem 2m
- How Network I/O Control (NIOC) Can Help 5m
- 6 Ways to Solve Network Performance Issues 2m
- What We Covered 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Sizing VM Guest CPU, RAM, Disk, and Network 8m
- Importance of the VMware Tools 2m
- Installing VMware Tools 4m
- Selecting the Right Guest OS 2m
- Configuring Timekeeping on VMs 5m
- Selecting Storage 7m
- Aligning Partitions 7m
- Disabling Unneeded Devices 3m
- To SMP, or Not 3m
- VMM Monitor Modes 9m
- What We Covered 2m
About the author
David has authored over 100 courses for Pluralsight.com around enterprise data center technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization, and (especially) VMware vSphere. He is a partner at ActualTechMedia.com where he creates compelling enterprise technology content, moderates online events, and helps to connect some of the best-known technology companies in the industry with the end user community. With over 20 years in enterprise technology, he has served as an IT Manager, administrator, an... more