What is most important to monitor in CPU performance
Before you jump onto conclusion as to what to monitor for the CPU performance, you need to make sure that you know what affects the CPU performance. Things that can affect the CPU performance include:
- CPU affinity: When you pin down a virtual CPU to a physical CPU, it may happen that your resource gets imbalanced. So, this is not advised until you have a strong reason to do that.
- CPU prioritization: When CPU contention happens, the CPU scheduler will be forced to prioritize VMs based on entitlement and queue requests.
- SMP VMs: If your application is not multithreaded then there is no benefit adding more CPU resources in VMs. In fact, the extra idle vCPUs add overhead that prevent some more useful ...
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