There is agreat new PDF available concerning the performance issues tweaks, advices and troubleshooting for your vSphere 4 architecture. If you are a simple admin in a Small business company or a Data-center engineer, this guide is just a must have…
The author is Hal Rosenberg and he works as performance engineer at VMware.
The document is the first installment in a guide covering performance troubleshooting in a vSphere environment. It uses a guided approach to lead the reader through the observable manifestations of complex hardware/software interactions in order to identify specific performance problems. For each problem covered, it includes a discussion of the possible root-causes and solutions. Topics covered include performance problems arising from issues in the CPU, memory, storage, and network subsystems, as well as in the VM and ESX host configuration
You can download the new PDF from this link.
Enjoy.