I continue to receive many questions from our customers on the expected performance gains of the new version of Hyper-Threading in Intel’s Core i7 processors. The answer requires a little bit of discussion on Hyper-Threading, a little bit on ESX, and comes with some performance data. If you are still interested, read on.
March 6, 2010
October 6, 2009
Top Five VROOM! Entries for 2009
I love VMware’s performance blog, VROOM! It is our most popular performance communication vehicle and its content is backed by a stellar engineering team with unmatched integrity. Each article details the nuances of VMware performance and educates on application and platform best practices. I love all the articles but am always surprised as to which our readers find most popular. Here is a countdown of the five entries most read in 2009.
September 29, 2009
Four Things You Should Know About ESX 4’s Scheduler
[This is the last re-post of old community content. But this content is important enough to be worth a re-post.]
I spend a great deal of time answering customers’ questions about the scheduler. Never have so many questions been asked about such an abstruse component for which so little user influence is possible. But CPU scheduling is central to system performance, so VMware strives to provide as much information on the subject as possible. In this blog entry, I want to point out a few nuggets of information on the CPU scheduler. These four bullets answer 95% of the questions I get asked.
