The following table provides general guidance on storage contention. It must be read in conjunction with the CPU Contention Guidance section in Chapter 4, CPU Counters. I must emphasize that these are just guidelines—you should set the values according to the unique needs of your environment.
|
Object |
Contention |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|
|
VM |
Official SLA:
Internal threshold:
|
The internal threshold is lower as it serves as a buffer. |
Your customers only care about their own VMs, so the following numbers are for your internal targets. You should have a more stringent internal threshold. This gives you a buffer to troubleshoot.
|
Object |
Contention |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|
|
ESXi |
NA |
There is no need to track at this level because of the following reasons:
|