VMware vSphere Performance Monitoring: vSphere Resources
Part 1 of 3 of the VMware vSphere Performance Monitoring series focuses on vSphere resources, including CPU performance, memory, storage and network management, and more.
What you'll learn
Part 1 of 3 of the VMware vSphere Performance Monitoring series focuses on vSphere resources, including CPU performance, memory, storage and network management, and more. 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 3m
- Performance and Performance Problems 4m
- Troubleshooting Methodology 3m
- Why is Performance Critical with Virtualization? 1m
- What Makes Up vSphere? 5m
- ESX Server Architecture 1m
- ESXi Server Architecture 4m
- Comparing ESX and ESXi Server 2m
- Critical Performance Considerations 3m
- Understanding the VMkernel 2m
- Understanding the Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) 6m
- Viewing and Changing Monitor Mode 2m
- What We Covered 3m
- Introduction 1m
- Network Virtualization Overview 1m
- What is I/O Virtualization Overhead? 1m
- Understanding Virtual Network Adapters 2m
- Choosing a Network Adapter for Your VM 7m
- VMDirectPath 3m
- Jumbo Frames 2m
- TCP Offload 1m
- Network I/O Control (NIOC) 2m
- Virtual Machine Communications Interface (VMCI) 2m
- 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