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Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter AppSpeed User’s Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- AppSpeed Overview
- Viewing Performance Data
- AppSpeed Views
- Viewing Summary Data for Applications and Servers
- Viewing Application Data
- Viewing Server Data
- Viewing Transaction Data
- Performance Indicators
- Working with the Topology Map
- AppSpeed Administration
- Event Management
- Troubleshooting Errors While Using AppSpeed
- Index
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Chapter 3 Working with the Topology Map
Scalability
AppSpeedisareal‐timeapplicationperformancetoolthatcollects,analyzes,andstoressubstantialvolumes
ofdatapersecond.ThefollowingparametersaffectAppSpeed’sperformance:
Thenumberofprobesdeployed
Thenumberofmonitoredapplications
Thenumberofmonitoredservers
Thenumberoftransactions
Thevolumeofmonitorednetworktraffic
ThetwomainfactorsaffectingscalabilityinAppSpeedarethenumberofoverallmonitoredobjectsandthe
numberoftransactionsthatarebeingmonitored.AppSpeedreducesthenumberoftransactionsforeach
applicationasadditionalapplicationsaremapped.Thisnumbercanbereducedtoas
fewas50transactions
foreachapplication.AppSpeedstopsdetectingnewserversafterthenumberofmonitoredserversexceeds
500,orthenumberofIPaddressesandportsinthemonitorednetworkexceeds3000.Italsostopsmapping
newapplicationsifthenumberofmonitoredapplicationsexceeds100.