Performance

Balanced Memory Configuration for ESXi Servers

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Background ESXi servers are fundamental infrastructure. The underly hardware performance has a butterfly effect on the upper layer virtual machines and applications. Since there is less than 10% performance overhead on the virtualization layer. So it’s valuable to get full performance on the hardware layer. Memory is a big player in hardware performance tuning. Balanced … Read more

Network Latency on Virtual Machine

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Slight network latency may cause application problem  on sensitive virtual machines. Even the network responding time is just 3 or 7 ms. There is a way to improve the  stability of responding latency – Enable RSS on NIC. Network traffic is handled by single CPU core when RSS is disabled. Enable it will distribute the … Read more