Challenges and considerations in determining how many vCPU’s to allocate to virtual machines

vExpert David Davis and VKernel Product Marketing Manager Alex Rosemblat have written a white paper for virtualization administrators to gain a deeper understanding of vCPU and be able to easily make the right decisions related to vCPU sizing.  By reading this whitepaper, VM administrators will learn:

• How to correctly size VMs in an environment
• How to approach appropriate sizing of new VMs that need to be deployed
• How to institute a regular CPU sizing process for the data center
• How CPU usage works at different levels of the virtualization “stack”
• How to screen for CPU-based VM performance issues before attempting to optimize an environment
• What VM performance metrics can provide insights on CPU usage and how to access them