Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan the strategies to monitor and troubleshoot the performance of the enterprise’s virtual computing environment
- Develop a plan to monitor the virtual environment to ensure its availability and optimal performance, according to the enterprise requirements
- Identify the virtual environment’s critical activity level, and assign resources as needed
- Review the system’s logs and alerts, in order to facilitate virtual environment tuning
- Manage virtual environment performance to ensure full resource optimisation
- Monitor and diagnose the memory central processing unit (CPU) and distributed power management performance
- Review the storage and cluster performance, in order to maximise operational efficiency
- Monitor tasks, events and alarms, and network activity, and make relevant adjustments to ensure optimal operation
- Analyse and troubleshoot the virtual environments
- Review virtual machine capacity, application, storage, input and output (I/O) performance, to identify and resolve any performance issues
- Test, analyse and troubleshoot, identified virtual network problems
- Analyse and troubleshoot, high availability to ensure that the virtual machines are running at optimal performance levels
- Consult with the virtualisation software vendors to provide solutions, where required
- Diagnose virtual environment faults and provide solutions
- Use virtualisation client and server management software tools, to help diagnose any virtual environment problems
- Install and configure external virtualisation management tools, to help diagnose any virtual environment problems
- Use system logs and alerts to collect and analyse errors
- Evaluate problems using log files and alerts
- Plan the strategies to monitor and troubleshoot the performance of the enterprise’s virtual computing environment
- Develop a plan to monitor the virtual environment to ensure its availability and optimal performance, according to the enterprise requirements
- Identify the virtual environment’s critical activity level, and assign resources as needed
- Review the system’s logs and alerts, in order to facilitate virtual environment tuning