Speakers


Richard McDougall

Principal Engineer in the Office of the CTO, VMWare

Richard McDougall
Richard McDougall is a Principal Engineer in the Office of the CTO at VMware, where he focuses on scalability, observability and performance of virtualization systems. One of his particular projects is characterizing the performance of Oracle Database on VMware Infrastructure.

Richard is the co-author of “Solaris Internals”, “Solaris Performance and Tools” (solarisinternals.com) and the lead author for “Resource Management” (Prentice Hall/Sun Blueprints). He has written numerous articles and papers on measurement, monitoring and capacity planning of Solaris systems, and frequently speaks at industry and customer technical conferences on the topics of system performance and resource management.

Richard and his performance team have published and blogged on several Oracle performance topics on vmware.com including http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/1055 and http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/ .

Presentations

Technical walkthrough of Hypervisors and Virtualization for Spring Developers

This talk is aimed at Spring and Java developers who are interested in getting a deeper technical understanding of hypervisors and virtualization technology. We will explain the architecture of desktop and server virtualization, discuss the impacts to performance, and walk through the key tools and metrics that are available to monitor system performance. We take a whole stack view from the Java application, servlet container through and all layers of operating system and virtualization software. We will study several Java and Database workloads and observe measured performance in virtualized environments.

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