ESX Performance Tuning documentation Series

An series of performance related papers for VMware’s ESX Server. Pretty deep.

• Isolating Performance Problems (PDF)

This paper provides an overview of the process used to troubleshoot performance problems in the ESX Server environment.

• Representing Physical Machines in the Virtual World (PDF)

This paper describes the process for troubleshooting a suspected performance problem at the machine representation layer (i.e., virtual machine layer).

• Using esxtop to Troubleshoot Performance Problems (PDF)

This paper describes the process for troubleshooting a suspected performance problem at the virtualization layer (i.e., the ESX Server layer) using the esxtop tool.

• ESX Performance Tips and Tricks (PDF)

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[Via Thincomputing.net]