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Performance considerations for database instances in virtual machines

Database Performance Tuning for

Virtualized Database Instances

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John Maxwell

• John is a software technology professional with 20 years of experience in systems management, including virtualization, cloud, and storage. He has worked for both large and small technology firms in this space. John is responsible for Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) and Database Performance Monitor (DPM).

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Database Instances Running in a VM

Hypervisor - ESXi

Oracle

VM

MySQL

VM

SQL Server

VM

Host OS

Physical Server

• The database instance is limited to the resources defined to the VM

• vCPU

• Memory

• Datastore/VMDK

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Databases Running in a VM

• What can make a big impact on your VM performance

• CPU

• CPU ready

• CPU co-stop

• Memory

• Memory swap rate

• VM active memory usage

• VM memory balloon

• Disk

• Latency

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Database Performance Analyzer

Cross-Platform Database

Performance Management

“DPA allows us to quickly identify performance issues both during a crisis and proactively.”John Dowling, SQL Server DBA, Nasdaq

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Database Performance Analyzer

Database Performance Management

• Cross-platform support for both cloud and on-premises databases. Anomaly detection powered by machine learning gets smarter over time to help you identify the bottlenecks slowing down your applications.

• Multi-dimensional wait analysis – Set the exact context for troubleshooting performance hits with accurate root cause determination

• Detailed query-level performance analysis – Get query-level wait profile, advisors, inefficient data access, statistics, plan changes, blocking involvement, and resource metrics all correlated in one view

• Expert advice for query and table tuning – Proactive tuning and optimization with index recommendations and performance projections along with inefficient query analysis

• Virtualized database monitoring – Best-in-class VMware VM and host analysis including event logging

• End-to-end performance monitoring – Orion® Platform integration provides a single-pane-of-glass view from the network to the storage array via AppStack™ and PerfStack™ dashboards

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Database Performance Analyzer

Hybrid Monitoring, 24/7 Real Time, Down-to-the-Second

• Cross-platform

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Database Performance Analyzer architecture

How Does it Work?

“There are suspects and culprits, and this product can help identify them. DPA is very, very detailed and you can zero-in on an issue.”Steve Shandro, Director, Global Database Administration

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Database Performance Analyzer

How It Works

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DPA VM option vs. external monitoring

In Product VM Monitoring vs. External

DPA External Monitoring

Real-time monitoring

CPU, memory, and disk metrics

Granular, down-to-the-second data collection

VM and HOST level metrics

Event tracking/logging

Host and VM configuration information

Database monitoring and analysis

Historical analysis

Machine learning

Custom alerts and notification per database

Time correlation of database and VM/HOST events

Annotation of events to performance degradation

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Database Performance Analyzer – over 300 independent reviews, over 100,000 database instances monitored

Most Trusted, Most Reviewed

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Learn More

• Product page

https://www.solarwinds.com/database-performance-analyzer

Read the blog:

https://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/monitoring-central

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