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VMware vSphere Performance Monitoring
View All CoursesIf 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.
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- Introduction
- About Your Instructor
- 7 Reasons Why vSphere Performance is Important
- Who Should Watch this Course?
- What We Cover in the Course
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
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- Introduction
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- Introduction
- Reviewing the VCAP-DCA Blueprint
- Understanding the Importance of Performance
- VCAP-DCA Study Tips
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Performance and Performance Problems
- Troubleshooting Methodology
- Why is Performance Critical with Virtualization?
- What Makes Up vSphere?
- ESX Server Architecture
- ESXi Server Architecture
- Comparing ESX and ESXi Server
- Critical Performance Considerations
- Understanding the VMkernel
- Understanding the Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM)
- Viewing and Changing Monitor Mode
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- CPU Scheduler Overview
- What Causes CPU Load?
- What Affects CPU Performance?
- What CPU Metrics Do I Need to Monitor?
- Importance of Ready Time
- What in the World is a CPU World?
- vSphere CPU Scheduler Reference
- Understanding NUMA
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Memory Management Overview
- Memory Over Commitment
- Transparent Page Sharing (TPS)
- Memory Ballooning
- Hypervisor Swapping
- Memory Compression
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Storage Virtualization Overview
- Storage Performance Factors
- LUN and Storage Queuing
- Understanding Storage Protocol Options
- Understanding the VMFS
- Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Network Virtualization Overview
- What is I/O Virtualization Overhead?
- Understanding Virtual Network Adapters
- Choosing a Network Adapter for Your VM
- VMDirectPath
- Jumbo Frames
- TCP Offload
- Network I/O Control (NIOC)
- Virtual Machine Communications Interface (VMCI)
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Resource Pool Defined
- Difference Between Resource Pools and Clusters
- Resource Pool Traits
- Reservations
- Limits
- Shares
- Creating Resource Pool and Defining Reservations, Limits, and Shares
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- What is a vSphere Cluster?
- Types of Clusters
- Creating a Cluster
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Viewing Physical and Virtual CPU Counts
- CPU Metrics You Must Know
- Monitoring CPU Metrics with the vSphere Client
- Monitoring CPU Metrics with esxtop
- 6 Ways to Solve CPU Performance Issues
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Analyzing Host and VM Memory
- Memory Metrics You Must Know
- Monitoring Memory Metrics with the vSphere Client
- Monitoring Memory Metrics with esxtop
- How You Know When Host Memory is the Problem
- How You Know When Guest Memory is the Problem
- 6 Ways to Solve Memory Performance Issues
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Critical Storage Performance Metrics
- Monitoring Storage Metrics with the vSphere Client
- Monitoring Storage Metrics with esxtop
- How Storage I/O Control (SIOC) Can Help
- 6 Ways to Solve Storage Performance Issues
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Speed and Duplex
- Critical Networking Performance Metrics
- Monitoring Network Metrics with the vSphere Client
- Monitoring Network Metrics with esxtop
- How You Know When the Network is the Problem
- How Network I/O Control (NIOC) Can Help
- 6 Ways to Solve Network Performance Issues
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Understanding Physical vs Virtual Resources
- Understanding Your Application
- Measuring Application Response
- When You Should or Shouldn't Virtualize an Application
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Sizing VM Guest CPU, RAM, Disk, and Network
- Importance of the VMware Tools
- Installing VMware Tools
- Selecting the Right Guest OS
- Configuring Timekeeping on VMs
- Selecting Storage
- Aligning Partitions
- Disabling Unneeded Devices
- To SMP, or Not
- VMM Monitor Modes
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Viewing Which VMs Have Overprovisioned RAM
- How To Size VM Guest Memory
- Best Practices for VM Guest Memory
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Why Cleaning Up After P2V is Important
- Steps You Should Take to Clean Up After P2V
- Resources to Assist in P2V Clean Up
- Using the VM Advanced ISO Toolset
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Adding, Modifying, and Removing Virtual Hardware
- Requirements to Use vSphere Hot Add / Hot Plug
- Using Hot Add to Add RAM to a VM
- Using Hot Plug to Add CPU to a VM
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Alarms Overview
- Alarms vs. Events
- Configuring vSphere Performance Alarms
- Modifying a Default Alarm
- Configuring vCenter Server Mail Sender Settings
- Creating a New Alarm
- Testing Alarms
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- vSphere Performance Graphing Overview
- Controlling the Amount and Detail of Stored Performance Data
- Customizing Advanced Performance Graphs
- Saving and Exporting Performance Graphs
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Overview of esxtop
- Differences Between esxtop and resxtop
- Controlling esxtop Columns and Fields
- Using esxtop Configuration Files
- Running esxtop in Batch Mode
- Common esxtop Scenarios
- esxtop Resources
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Overview of vscsiStats
- Using vscsiStats, Step by Step
- Scenarios for vscsiStats
- Graphing vscsiStats with Excel
- To Learn More
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- AppSpeed Overview
- Scenarios Where AppSpeed Can Help
- AppSpeed Requirements and Installation
- Using AppSpeed
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Capacity IQ Overview
- Scenarios Where Capacity IQ Can Help
- Capacity IQ Requirements and Installation
- Using Capacity IQ
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Overview of Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
- Why Isn't My VM Load Perfectly Balanced?
- Configuring DRS
- Creating DRS Cluster
- DRS Troubleshooting Tips
- Monitoring DRS
- My Favorite HA/DRS Book
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Understanding DRS Automation
- DRS Groups and Affinity Rules
- New DRS Features in vSphere 4.1
- Understanding Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC)
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Distributed Power Management (DPM) Overview
- Enabling and Configuring DPM
- Monitoring Power Utilization
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Why Perform Capacity Planning?
- Steps to Perform Successful Capacity Planning
- Tools Used in Capacity Planning
- Using VMware Guided Consolidation
- Configuring VMware Guided Consolidation
- Predicting Host and VM Capacity with Performance Charts
- Using vSphere Performance Charts for Capacity Planning
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- vCenter Operations Overview
- Requirements and Installation
- Terms: Workload, Health, and Capacity
- Downloading and Installing vCenter Operations
- Configuring vCenter Operations
- Using vCenter Operations
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- What is VKernel vOps?
- System Requirements
- Installation
- Using vOps for Capacity Planning
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- What is ESXplot?
- Downloading and Installing ESXplot
- Exporting Data from ESXi Server Using esxtop
- Analyzing vSphere Stats From esxtop with ESXplot
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- What is IOBlazer?
- Downloading and Installing IOBlazer
- Analyzing vSphere Storage Stats From vscsiStats with IOBlazer
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- How Can Veeam Monitor Free Help You?
- Veeam Monitor Free vs. Full
- Downloading and Installing Veeam Monitor Free Edition
- 5 Critical Performance Stats, Analyzed with Veeam Monitor
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- What Makes Xangati Unique?
- Downloading and Installing Xangati for ESX
- Confirguring Xangati
- Virtual Network Analysis with Xangati
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Four Free Performance Tools From vKernel
- Exploring VMs Utilization with ApplicationView
- vSphere Performance Overview with CapacityView
- Analyze Storage Latency with StorageView
- Predicting vSphere Capacity with Capacity Modeler
- What We Coveered
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- Introduction
- What is vAlarm?
- Downloading and Installing vAlarm
- vSphere Alarms in Windows with vAlarm
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Overview of Free VMware Guest Console (VGC)
- Downloading and Installing VGC
- Analyzing VM Inventory, Processes, Snapshots, and More
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- What We Learned
- Next Steps for Learning
- Next Steps for VCP or VCAP Certification
- Feedback
Instructor
David Davis
David has been in the IT industry for over 18 years. He has served as a server/network admin, IT manager, and independent contractor. Today, David is a full-time instructor for TrainSignal.com where he has created over 20 different IT training courses.
Additionally, he has written hundreds of IT articles on the Internet, written for Virtualization Review magazine, served as a judge at VMware product competitions, and spoke on virtualization at conferences in the USA, Canada, and Europe. David's "real-world" experience combined with his diversity of skills (Virtualization, Windows Server, and Cisco Networking) gives you a powerful learning resource that can't be matched.
