So Say SMEs Cover CMDs/Sec

Our performance counter of the week is a key storage related metric - CMDs/Sec.  This is part of our new effort to cover a a new performance counter every week - along with a little bit of other virtualization and cloud stuff as needed.  We secretly hope to make you all esxtop performance experts.

So Say SMEs and CoStop Performance Counter

This week on So Say SMEs, Kong and I discuss what the costop or %costop performance counter means and how you can use it to resolve performance issues on your vSphere / ESXi environment.  You can view costop in esxtop on the main CPU screen that comes up by default.

Intro to CPU Ready Time in ESXTOP

This week in our So Say SMEs episode we have a quick discussion about the CPU Ready time performance counter in esxtop.  This has been covered by some other great blogs and esxtop performance guides.  Here we have a quick intro conversation and also talk about the Super Bowl - because we have to talk about the Super Bowl.