Whitepaper: VMware ESX Server Performance and Resource Management for CPU-Intensive Workloads

Posted by Alessandro Perilli   |   Thursday, December 08, 2005   |  
VMware just published a new wonderful 23-pages paper on ESX Server 2.x on how to benchmark VMs performances and apply different resources allocation methods. It covers the following topics:
  • Virtual Machine Scalability
  • Virtual Versus Native Scaling
  • Limiting CPU Resources via Maximums
  • Garanteeing CPU Resources via Minimums
  • Allocating CPU Resources via Shares
  • Setting CPU Affinity
  • Page Sharing
Download it here.

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