Tuning the host for guest performance
Although ESXi ensures that the guest OS believes it is running on real hardware, it is of course running on a time-shared virtual system. Although the hypervisor does its best to mask this to the guest operating system, there are steps that you can take to help ensure the best performance.
This recipe will show you how to tune the performance of an Ubuntu guest OS. However, you can also find other tuning guides, for example, for Windows.
Getting ready
For this recipe, you will need an ESXi host and an Ubuntu 14.04 guest.
How to do it…
First, you need to install the VMware guest-tools. The OpenVM tools are an open source version of the official VMware tools, and they facilitate better memory management and network ...
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