Virtualization Webinar Series 5 Most Common VMware Performance Issues January 22, 2014 Speaker: Jeremy Littlejohn, Founder and Chief Analyst RISC Networks
Did you know that 53% of all companies have VMware servers with Performance degradation due to Memory Swap In/Swap Out? This presentation details a survey of the top 5 VMware performance issues. We will share how businesses can evaluate and evolve their network infrastructure performance and get the most out of their VMware Infrastructure. This presentation explores the VMware Troubleshooting Guide and how to use that information to improve your environment. - Which overlooked items can have the most impact on your VMware performance - How to use information that is available at your fingertips - How to gather this information in your own environment - And the best practices for delivering high-performance VMware to support your business
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1. Virtualization Webinar Series 5 Most Common VMware
Performance Issues January 22, 2014 Speaker: Jeremy Littlejohn,
Founder and Chief Analyst RISC Networks
2. Agenda 1) Which items have the most impact on your VMware
performance 2) How to use information that is available at your
fingertips 3) How to gather this information in your own
environment 4) Best practices for a high-performance VMware
environment
8. Trend is Shifting The most common hardware platform running
VMware vSphere 4.X Dell R710 The most common hardware platform
running VMware vSphere 5.x Cisco UCS B Series 4.X 5.X
9. Top 5 Performance Issues
10. # 5 Most Common VMware Issue 33% of businesses have CPU
oversubscription within their VMware hypervisors Learn More: VMware
recommends less than 5% ready time for all VMs
11. # 4 Most Common VMware Issue 53% Organizations have VMware
Servers with performance degradation due to Memory Swap In / Swap
Out. Learn More: Performance Troubleshooting for VMware
vSphere
12. # 3 Most Common VMware Issue 53% of businesses have storage
latency within their VMware environment Learn More:
troubleshooting-storage-performance-in-vsphere-part-1-the-basics
13. # 2 Most Common VMware Issue 63% of VMware systems have
swap wait
14. # 1 Most Common VMware Issue 64% 26% 64% of organizations
have receive packet loss occurring on virtual switch ports and 26%
have transmit packet loss occurring on virtual switch ports
15. Survey Question What Vmware Performance & Monitoring
Tools Are You Using?
16. Before After Establishing a Performance Baseline
17. Infrastructure Performance Statistics 10 In order to
establish an effective baseline, you have to focus on more than ONE
dimension. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Infrastructure Performance Statistics
CPU Usage
18. Cross-Functional Analysis Data Center 54% Vmware Perf
Problems 33 % Oversubscribed Line Cards 47 % Storage Perf Problems
73 % Network Perf Problems 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Dont Just Focus on CPU
usage Analyze Disk I/O Analyze Network I/O Capture Network Traffic
Look at the network relations and dependency
19. Analyze, Dont Monitor VS
20. Collect (at least) the following data CPU Usage % % Steal
time OR % Ready Time Data Collection Memory Swap In/Out Rate
(hypervisor if virtual) CPU % Wait Time (can show disk slowness for
swapping) VM Swap Wait Disk IOPS (I/O Per Second) I/O Block Size
Latency and Queue Length Network Packet Loss % Delay
21. How to analyze my Environment?
22. Gather Data General usage info for CPU, Memory, Disk
Current usage and impact on performance Current network performance
information Virtualized environment analysis
23. Benchmarking Clearly identify specific areas of opportunity
Set performance expectations Validate infrastructure assumption
Monitor company performance and manage change
24. Resources Performance and Troubleshooting Guide
http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10179
http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/05/troubleshooti
ng-storage-performance-in-vsphere-part-1-thebasics.html
http://www.vkernel.com/files/docs/white-papers/top-20vmware-performance-metrics.pdf
25. Our Analysis
26. Our Analysis
27. Our Analysis by the #s 97,000 Virtual Machines VMware
Virtual Machines Analyze
28. Our Analysis by the #s 4,000 + Business Networks
Analyzed
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days Improve & Optimize Network Infrastructure Holistic Data
Set Across Multiple Technologies Solves problem faster and helps
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32. Upcoming Webinars Subscribe to our BrightTALK Channel:
https://www.brighttalk.com/channel/10539 February 5th Why Network
Testing is Critical for Cloud Success February 19th Top 5 Network
Infrastructure Performance Issues March 5th Be Confident That Your
Cloud Solution is Working Well March 12th Performance Benchmarking
for Private and Hybrid Cloud
33. Thank you
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