Oracle VM Implementation and Administration Guide

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Monitoring and Tuningthe Virtual Machine Server

Once the virtual machine environment has been configured and deployed, it must be continually monitored and managed to provide an efficient and well-performing system. An overloaded virtual machine server and I/O subsystem results in a poorly performing virtual environment and unhappy customers and users. There are two parts to tuning and monitoring the virtual environment: monitoring and tuning the VM Server and monitoring and tuning the virtual machines themselves. Monitoring and tuning the virtual machines will be covered later in Chapter 19; this chapter covers monitoring and tuning ...