What is the overall IaaS performance?
Let's recap from Chapter 4, Performance Monitoring, the main question asked by the CIO about your IaaS platform:
"How do you prove that not a single VM in the past month has suffered an unacceptable performance hit because of non-performing IaaS?"
Chapter 4, Performance Monitoring, then went on to explain that you implement service tiering to help you defend your IaaS. Chapter 5, Capacity Monitoring, supported the idea by incorporating performance into capacity management.
For each service tier, we need to cover the four components of infrastructure, which are:
- CPU
- RAM
- Disk
- Network
You need to ensure that not a single VM experiences a contention that exceeds the agreed-upon SLA on that service tier. Naturally, there is different SLA for each tier. This means you need to plot one chart for each service tier.
Based on the performance SLA defined in Chapter 4, Performance Monitoring, these are the required line charts:
- A line chart showing the maximum...
