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Timekeeping and Time-Sensitive Applications in VMware Virtual Machines: Best Practices

Created on: Sep 18, 2008 12:00 AM by VMworld Team - Last Modified:  Jul 24, 2009 5:06 PM by VMworld Team

Session Details

Session ID:

PO3008

Session Title:

Timekeeping and Time-Sensitive Applications in VMware Virtual Machines: Best Practices

Session Abstract:

When Virtualizing highly time-sensitive applications, additional care should be taken to ensure consistent performance and accurate timekeeping. In this talk we will review the fundamentals of timekeeping and scheduling for virtual machines as well as their interactions. We present best practices for configuring VMware ESX and Windows and Linux guest operating systems for accurate timekeeping and reduced virtualization-induced latencies for time-critical workloads. Diagnostic tools and techniques for identifying resource contention issues and tools for measuring and diagnosing timekeeping issues are also covered.

Track:

Session Type:

Technical Overview Session

Keywords:

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

Duration:

1 Hour

Speaker(s):

Garrett Smith( VMware,Inc. )

Speaker 1:

Garrett Smith is a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Monitor Group at VMware. He has been a member of the VMware engineering team for four years and has been the primary engineer working on timekeeping for the past two years. Prior to timekeeping he focused on MMU virtualization.



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