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You are asked to help troubleshoot a virtual data center that is suffering from poor performance. There are 4 ESXi hosts running vSphere Enterprise Plus - each has dual 8 core Xeon processors - 48GB of RAM and each has 8 local drives configured in a RAID6 + Hot Spare array and 10/100Mbps NIC. Each hosts is running between 30-40 virtual machines. After monitoring the VM's - you can see all are running between 5-10% CPU utilization - have been assigned no more than 2GB of RAM each and using on average 1-2% of the NIC bandwidth. What is the likely cause of the performance problems?

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You are asked to help troubleshoot a virtual data center that is suffering from poor performance. There are 4 ESXi hosts running vSphere Enterprise Plus - each has dual 8 core Xeon processors - 48GB of RAM and each has 8 local drives configured in a RAID6 + Hot Spare array and 10/100Mbps NIC. Each hosts is running between 30-40 virtual machines. After monitoring the VM's - you can see all are running between 5-10% CPU utilization - have been assigned no more than 2GB of RAM each and using on average 1-2% of the NIC bandwidth. What is the likely cause of the performance problems?






 
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