If you don’t like to read pages full of tangents and unrelated trivia, you can always listen to me ramble (and bomb most of my jokes) on stage. Recordings are (usually) from VM(world|ware Explore) EU since the slides are slightly updated after the US. You need a free Customer Connect (formerly MyVMware) account to watch videos and download PDF slides (if available). Recordings that “timed out” (3 years) of the VMware site are uploaded to YouTube.
VMware Explore Barcelona 2023
CEIT1570BCN – Extreme Performance Series: Advanced Performance Tutorial
- Power Metrics (5:40)
- Host / VM CPU Utilization (18:10)
- vPMC / monitor CPU utilization (32:10)
- CPUID / virtual HW / EVC (37:20)
- Turbo Boost / Frequency (55:40)
- Page Size (54:40)
- Native MWAIT vs ACPI C-States (1:06:00)
- The Perfect BIOS Power Management Profile (1:11:30)
VMware Explore Las Vegas 2023
CEIB2839LV – Balancing Risk and Performance for Sustainable ICT Networks
(with Frank Escaros-Buechsel)
- Workload and Risk classification (3:00)
- High level strategies and case studies (11:00)
- Latency Sensitivity and efficiency (22:00)
- DPM & HPM (28:50)
- Conservative capacity metrics (40:50)
VMware Explore Barcelona 2022
CEIB1624EURD – Extreme Performance Series: Performance Best Practices
- Resource Distribution (and Memory Limits) (2:40)
- Extreme(ly Appropriate) Performance (32:30)
- Power Management (36:10)
- Flings worth having (55:20)
VMware Explore San Francisco 2022
CEIT1097US – Extreme Performance Series: vSphere Advanced Performance Tutorial
- vMwARE
- Hyper-Threading (7:00)
- Latency Sensitivity (14:00)
- vHT (18:00)
- Topology (24:00)
- vNUMA vCPU Hot-Add (34:00)
- vNUMA aware virtual devices (36:00)
- Auto-CoresPerSocket (40:00)
- vLLC (54:00)
VMworld 2021
MCL1635 – Extreme Performance Series: Performance Best Practices
(with Mark Achtemichuk)
- AMD / LLCSched
- Usage / Utilization (15:00)
- Lightening Round (45:00)
VMworld 2020
HCP2206 – Extreme Performance Series: Performance Best Practices
(with Mark Achtemichuk)
- NUMA / CPU Topology
- Ready Time (24:00)
HCP2232 – Extreme Performance Series: Efficient, Sustainable and Performant
- Power Management
- Large Pages / TPS (26:00)
VMworld Barcelona 2019
HBI2526BE – Extreme Performance Series: Performance Best Practices
- Power Management
- L1TF / SCAv1+2 (25:30)
- NUMA / CPU Topology (31:00)
- Large Pages / TPS (44:30)
VMworld Barcelona 2018
VIN2677BE – Extreme Performance Series: Performance Best Practices
- CPU Usage / SMT Accounting
- Power Management (11:30)
- Latency Sensitivity (19:00)
- Active Memory (43:30)
VMworld Barcelona 2017
SER2724BE – Extreme Performance Series: Performance Best Practices
- Power Management
- vHW feature enablement (43:00)