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VMware vCloud Director 1.0 Performance and Best Practices
Note: Reconnecting a vCenter will incur some down time for actions performed against that particular vCenter,
so we recommend you reconnect the vCenter when overall vCloud Director activity is low. It usually takes
between 5-30 seconds to move the VC Listener from one cell to another because vCloud Director has to
disconnect from the current cell and connect back from a different cell. This process will not affect currently
running VMs in any way; they will continue to function without any interruption.
Adjusting Thread Pool and Cache Limits
A vCloud Director installation has preconfigured limits for concurrent running tasks, various cache sizes, and
other thread pools. These all are configured with good default values, which are tested to work within an
environment of 10,000 VMs. Some of these numbers are also configurable in case you want to adjust them. You
must restart the cell for the changes to go into effect.
Table 4. Thread Pool Limits
THREAD
POOL
DEFAULT
SIZE (FOR
EACH CELL)
USAGE/INFORMATION HOW TO ADJUST
Tasks
128 Maximum number of concurrent tasks that can
be executed per cell of a vCloud Director
installation. This is a global task count and is not
scoped per user or organization. Different cells
of the same vCloud Director installation can
have different values.
org.quartz.threadPool.threadCount = N
Where N is some number of concurrent
tasks you want to run on a given cell.
VM
Thumbnails
32 Maximum number of concurrent threads that
can fetch VM thumbnail images from vCloud
Director Agent running on an ESX host. Only
thumbnail images for running (powered on)
VMs are collected. Thumbnails are also retrieved
in batches, so all VMs residing on the same
datastore or host will be retrieved in batches.
vCloud Director only fetches thumbnails if they
are requested and once fetched, also caches
them. Thumbnails are requested when a user
navigates to various list pages or the dashboard
that displays the VM image.
Not configurable.
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