VCP4 Exam Cram: VMware Certified Professional, Second Edition

Chapter 9. Monitoring vSphere Resources

This chapter covers the following VCP exam topics:

• Hyper-Threading

• Hardware Execution Context (HEC)

• Transparent Memory Page Sharing

• Balloon-Driver

• Hypervisor Swap

• Memory Compression

• Alarms

• Virtual CPU

• Virtual Memory

• CPU

• Memory

• Disk

(For more information on the VCP exam topics, see “About the VCP Exam” in the introduction.)

This chapter focuses primarily on how to monitor your VMware Infrastructure. You learn about optimizing and monitoring resources used by virtual machines (VMs) and hosts, including virtual CPUs and virtual memory. The chapter concludes with a discussion of alarms.

Resource Optimization Concepts

• Virtual CPU

• Virtual Memory

• Balloon-Driver

• Hyper-Threading ...