Author Archives: Josh Odgers

Virtual Machine Performance – CPU Ready

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I have had feedback that navigation of my blog to find past posts is difficult, so I am aiming to solve this by creating new sections which will hopefully help with navigation.

This section is dedicated to posts I have written relating to CPU ready.

I am still seeing environments on a regular basis where virtual machines are not being sized appropriated during initial deployment and tools such as vCenter Operations (even where it has been deployed) not being used to optimize performance of virtual machines and vSphere cluster/s.

I have customers buying new hardware, where it is simply not required. The goal of this section is to make sure people get the best return on investment (ROI) out of their hardware and VMware licensing.

CPU Ready

1. VM Right Sizing – An Example of the benefits

2. How Much CPU Ready is OK?

3. Common Mistake – Using CPU Reservations to solve CPU Ready

4. High CPU Ready with Low CPU Utilization

5. More Coming soon

Related Articles

1. Determining if multiple vCPUs are causing performance problem (VMware KB)

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vCatchup – Craig Waters & Josh Odgers

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I recently was asked by Melbourne VMUG leader and friend Craig Waters (@cswaters1) to do a vCatchup with him which I gladly accepted.

The vCatchup is approx 35mins in length and covers various topics including the tech community in Australia/NZ, VMUG , interesting developments in the industry in 2013 along with Software Defined Datacenter.

Other topics discussed include architecture and emerging technology such as Nicira , Nutanix and PernixData.

I hope you enjoy the vCatchup with Josh Odgers

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Giving Back to the VMware community

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After achieving my VCDX in Toronto mid last year (2012), one of my goals was to start blogging and giving back to the VMware/Virtualisation community which I wrote in my About Me post back in April last year.

Over the last year I presented at multiple VMUG events , contributed to community podcasts and kicked off this blog (CloudXC). I also got more involved with Twitter and VMware Communities forum.

I have also helped a number of VCDX candidates with mock panels and submission reviews and I am very pleased a number of those candidates have been successful.

I am pleased to say I have thoroughly enjoyed getting more involved with the community, and have met a lot of great people and learnt lots of new things along the way.

Today I received notification that along with 574 others, I was awarded the title of vExpert for 2013. (vExpert Awardees announced here)

Just like achieving VCDX, earning the vExpert title for me is just motivation to continually keep improving my skills and adding value to the community.

Thanks to everyone involved with the vExpert Program and I look forward to continuing to contribute too this great community and hopefully get another vExpert gong next year.

Congrats to everyone else who was awarded vExpert for 2013!

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