Ensure the future is green with strong Capacity Management
The requirements for 'Green IT' are changing. Where cost savings through reduced power usage were once enough to claim good green credentials, this is no longer the case. Organizations face growing pressure to deliver more sustainable benefits that are readily visible to stakeholders outside IT and outside the business. Managing the capacity of your enterprise effectively to deliver sustainable and measurable 'Green' benefits is key to keeping all parties happy.

Most organizations regardless of scale are keen to embrace and deliver "Green" solutions. These projects are usually driven by the need to reduce carbon omissions, achieve certain ISO standards or simply to save money by reducing operational expenditure. Whilst the technologies that underpin these initiatives are understood e.g. consolidation, virtualization etc, it's capacity management that will allow you to meet the project objectives and still provide the customer with the services that they need.

This webinar will discuss how capacity management can be used to optimize environments to ensure any green projects will deliver cost effective solutions and at a higher level, how mature ITIL processes will be essential in maintaining any green initiatives moving forward. Topics covered include:

  • The changing face of Green IT: from cost savings through sustainability to maturity
  • Using capacity management to reduce your current carbon footprint
  • Enabling sustainable Green IT through effective capacity management processes

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VMware vSphere Performance Management Challenges and Best Practices (Part 1)
This presentation has been designed to identify and highlight the key performance management challenges within a vSphere environment, whilst providing best practice guidelines, key metrics for monitoring and recommendations for implementation. The presentation will focus on the key resources areas within a virtualized environment, such as CPU, Memory, Storage and Network but also provide an introduction into Virtualization Performance challenges and some further information on VM performance and virtualizing applications.

  • Challenges of x86 virtualization
    • Four levels of privilege (Ring 0 – 3)
    • Hardware – Intel VT-x and AMD-V
    • Software – Binary Translation
    • Memory Management – MMU
    • Default Monitor Mode
  • CPU Performance Management
    • What is a World?
    • CPU Scheduling – why is it important to understand how it works?
  • SMP and Ready Time
    • NUMA Aware
    • What affects CPU Performance?
    • Host CPU Saturation?
  • Causes and resolutions
    • Increasing VM efficiency
  • Timer interrupts and large memory pages
    • ESX Host pCPU0 High Utilization – why is this bad?
  • Memory Performance Management
    • Memory reclamation – how and why?
    • What do I monitor and what does it mean?
    • Troubleshooting tips
    • vSwp file placement guidelines

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