What’s Your Shape? 5 Steps to Understanding Your Virtual Workload | SNIA

Abstract

Is your VM is rightsized?
Is your VM is on the right datastore?
Is your VM I/O bound?

These are the kinds of questions that come up frequently when you’re doing capacity management, solving performance problems, and making procurement decisions. The root of the answer to all of them is the shape of your workload. Irfan Ahmad, the tech lead of VMware’s own Swap-to-SSD, Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control features will teach you the five steps to discovering the shape of your workload and applying that knowledge to capacity and performance decisions.

Learning Objectives

Is the disk workload sequential or random? How much parallelism is there?
What is the bottleneck resource?
Is this a noisy neighbor or a victim?
How do we figure out the shape of a workload? What are the tools and techniques we can use?
How do we map workloads to the right mix of storage, CPU, memory and network?