Sysadmin Today #13: VMware Performance Best Practices

In this episode, I discuss best practices for setting up and maximizing a VMware environment. Including CPU, Memory, Storage and Network optimizations. Host: Paul Joyner Email: [email protected] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sysadmintoday Twitter: https://twitter.com/SysadminToday  Disk Performance Device Latency not to exceed 25ms | Kernel & Queue Latency not to exceed 2ms | Total latency not to exceed 27ms Counters to use: Queue command latency Physical device read latency Command latency Kernel command latency Kernel read latency Bus resets Queue read latency Physical device write latency Network PerformanceLook for dropped packets, usage in KBPS, check for errors on the physical switch port. Counters to use:Data receive rate Data transmit rate Receive packets dropped Transmit packets dropped Usage MEM Performance for VMware Essentials Customers https://www.nexusos.co.uk/content/news/blog-articles/tech/mem-performance-for-vmware-essentials-customers.ashx Performance Best Practice for VMware 6.0 https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/vmware-perfbest-practices-vsphere6-0-white-paper.pdf Veeam One Monitoring https://www.veeam.com/virtual-server-management-one-free.html Please Support the Channel https://www.patreon.com/sysadmintoday