VMware ESX Server Guest OS Performance Tips -Part Two

Friday, 15 December 2006 by Michel Roth

David Marshall and Wade Reynolds have written a three part article on how to get the maximum performance out of your guests on ESX Server. Part two has been published.

"Even though VMware ESX Server is known for high performance, performance tweaks and a little know how can make it even better. In this series, we are examining 12 tips for top-notch ESX Server performance.

Tips one through four discussed VI3, host processors and memory, storage and host networking. Now we'll turn our attention to VM-to-host placement, remote access, virtual processors and memory and more."

Tip 5: Be aware of VM-to-host placement
Tip 6: Use remote access carefully
Tip 7: Virtual machine processors and memory
Tip 8: Remove unneeded virtual hardware

In the next part of this tip, we'll look at updating VMware tools, optimizing your guest operating systems and effectively using antivirus and backup tools."

Read the tips here.