SWAP, drop & Roll: A live look at Memory Management!
In case you missed it, I presented some brand new content in a VMUG WebCast yesterday (Feb 7, 2018). The session is a work in progress in the early stages of what I hope to deliver at VMworld 2018, if it gets accepted (call for papers should be coming up soon!). By then, I'll have more concrete findings and a refined message, but here's an early look at some VMware memory management, sprinkled with all kinds of tips, tricks, and interesting findings! No powerpoint... nothing but live demos.
Here's a link link to the recording:
Feedback is very important and valuable to me! It's how we grow and improve... so please, ping me and let me know what you did/didn't like, offer suggestions for improvement, or simply ask me any questions if there were parts that didn't make sense. I did have a lot of cover and moved quite quickly through a lot of the findings.
Apologies that the recording never picked up my mouse movements, and has some image artifacts! I realize it's harder to follow without the mouse pointing to the area I'm talking about, and hope to get some annotations into the video (which I'll upload in place).
Cheers,
Rob
Solutions Architect @ CDW - Team Lead, Dell Technologies
7 年Great job on this, Rob! Love how you explain SQL VMs memory reservations, ballooning and utilizing numerous SCSI controllers to different drive assignments.. Still see environments out there swapping to disk (thinking virtual RAM is good enough) and performance completely goes south. Sizing SQL workloads is crucial and RAM is a huge culprit when things start to rumble. Always add more physical RAM as needed and allocate more in SQL. Nicely done, bud! Snag it! :-)