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

3. Analysis & Trends 101001011100 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 11 0 1 110010101011 001001110101 By The Numbers

4. Whats Actually Running The average # of VMs on a single host is 15

5. The Highest # of VMs on a single host 987 VMs The highest # of VMs on a single host was 987

6. Survey Question What Platform Are You or Your Customers Using The Most With Vmware?

7. Most Common Platforms Running VMware 1.Dell R710 2.Cisco N20 UCS B-Series 3.HP Proliant DL380 G7 4.HP Proliant DL 380 G6 5.Dell PowerEdge 2950

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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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

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