Troubleshooting
Problem
Running IBM Business Process Manager in a virtual machine is supported. However, there are some additional considerations when running servers in a virtual machine (VM) environment.
Resolving The Problem
When you are running a Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application in a virtual machine (VM) there are additional considerations. These considerations are performance-related changes.
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These document links are good resources for tuning VMware servers.
Other things to consider:
- Dedicated CPU for VMs
If you have several VMs on a node, you can experience CPU starvation.
- Dedicated memory
You can set up VMs to have shared RAM. Performance can be affected if the server node is swapping memory usage.
- Looking at the operating system resource pages (free CPU, free memory) can show that there is available resources. However, these resources are being shared or constrained at a deeper level in the larger VM server setup.
Tools and Best practices
- Esxtop
For more information on esxtop metrics, see Interpreting esxtop 4.1 Statistics - How to use batch mode for perfmon
- Troubleshooting CPU Ready issues
- VMware IO Analyzer
- VMware vSphere Best Practices
White papers on how to tune VMWare to perform well with Java™ EE applications:
- Performance Troubleshooting for VMware vSphere 4
- Enterprise Java Applications on VMware - Best Practices Guide
General Virtual Machine Performance Guidelines
Suggested Reading for Virtual Databases
Microsoft SQL Server and Virtualization
- Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere
- Best Practices for SQL Server
- Top 10 Keys to Deploying SQL Server on VMware
IBM DB2
- Setup DB2 Enterprise 9 on a Linux virtual machine using VMware ESX Server
- Scaling IBM DB2 9 in a VMware Infrastructure 3 environment
- IBM Red Book - DB2 Virtualization
Oracle Database
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Product Synonym
BPM
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Modified date:
15 June 2018
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