Fine-tune your virtualization performance management skills
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How do Hyper-V Integration Components affect performance?
What are Hyper-V Integration Components, and are there any recommendations for boosting virtual machine performance? Read Now
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How can testing improve nested hypervisor performance?
Not all hypervisors and OSes can play nice with others. The best method for avoiding complications down the road is to thoroughly test your nested virtualization deployment. Read Now
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How CPU and memory affect application performance
Application performance will change depending on if you want more cores, better clock speed or what you choose for memory. Read Now
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How bad do swap files affect virtual machine performance?
Modern technology can prevent VMs from grinding to a halt if there's a memory shortage, but using swap files does slow performance. Find out why. Read Now
Editor's note
There are many benefits to virtualization, but a key aspect of fully realizing those benefits is ensuring that everything in your data center is performing well. The virtual infrastructure is a complex system made up of many parts -- the hypervisor, VMs, servers, storage, applications -- and if even one of those parts isn't firing on all cylinders, it affects the rest of the infrastructure. As such, it's essential to not only understand what affects virtualization performance, but also how to actively improve performance and successfully troubleshoot any issues.
With this guide, you'll be better equipped to anticipate and prevent virtualization performance problems. Below, you'll find information on how CPU and memory affect performance, how you can benefit from VM performance benchmarking and how to pinpoint application performance problems in a virtual data center.
1How can you improve virtualization performance?
Now that you understand what factors affect performance, you are better equipped to manage the day-to-day operations of your virtual infrastructure. Read on to learn about effective performance monitoring, proper resource utilization and important storage metrics.
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How you can benefit from VM performance benchmarking
Using benchmarks gives the user a head start in troubleshooting if VM performance begins to falter. But how can benchmarking help with resources, hardware decisions and virtual workloads? Read Now
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Proper resource utilization can optimize performance
Optimizing performance on a virtual server can maximize efficiency and savings. Microsoft System Center is an example of one tool that can automate and adjust settings as needs change. Read Now
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Can I improve the performance of a virtual database server?
Virtualizing database servers is no longer taboo, but you can still experience performance problems if it's not correctly configured. Read Now
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Five quick tips for foolproof Hyper-V performance tuning
Master Microsoft's virtualization and hypervisor platform with these five tips to Hyper-V performance tuning. Read Now
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Configuration tweaks to boost Hyper-V networking performance
Hyper-V networking changes can benefit workload performance, but only when they're applied in a careful and systematic manner. Read Now
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Five storage configuration tips to boost VM performance
Correctly sizing and setting up your storage hardware can help eliminate bottlenecks and improve VM performance. Read Now
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How to use esxtop to monitor ESXi storage performance
The esxtop utility provides VMware administrators with valuable performance data, but do you know the most important storage metrics to watch? Read Now
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Improve VM performance with server memory configuration
Memory technologies add flexibility, but aren’t appropriate for every workload in the data center. Find out which configurations are worth using. Read Now
2How can you troubleshoot virtualization performance issues?
When managing a virtual environment, you're bound to run into issues, no matter how meticulously you set up the infrastructure and how carefully you monitor it. In this section, learn about common bottlenecks, detrimental background activity and Hyper-V configurations.
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Which VMware esxtop metrics can indicate performance problems?
Built-in performance tools offer VMware administrators several important metrics that can help diagnose performance problems, if they know where to look. Read Now
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Eliminate background activity, boost Hyper-V host performance
There's a lot happening behind the scenes that could be slowing Hyper-V host performance. Keeping the background activity in check can boost performance. Read Now
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Don't let antivirus software affect hypervisor performance
Antivirus software has good intentions of protecting your environment, but sometimes can cause a hiccup in hypervisor performance. Read Now
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Eliminate Hyper-V slow network performance with these tools and tips
Network performance can make or break your virtual environment. With Hyper-V networking tools, you can maintain fast network performance and ensure your resources are distributed evenly. Read Now