https://community.qlik.com/t5/Official-Support-Articles/QlikView-Server-Virtualization/ta-p/1711876 <P>There are several considerations to make before installing QlikView in a virtual environment</P> <UL> <LI>Evaluate what&nbsp;BIOS / UEFI settings provide best performance;&nbsp;<A href="https://community.qlik.com/docs/DOC-2362" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BIOS settings for Best Performance of QlikView Server and QlikView Publisher</A></LI> <LI>Evaluate what hypervisor (virtual machine monitor) settings provide best performance <UL> <LI>Beware vertical scalability limitations of ESX v3.5</LI> <LI>Memory management such as Transparent Page <STRONG>Sharing and Memory Ballooning </STRONG>may cause instability in the guest system and should be avoided. It's recommended to configure the virtual machine to use static memory allocation.</LI> <LI>Dedicated Resource Pool is required for optimal performance</LI> <LI>Useful for Change Control Environments and Disaster Recovery. Discouraged in Production</LI> <LI>Virtual environments are slower compared to physical computer due to overhead of the hypervisor used</LI> </UL> </LI> <LI>Validate that production applications perform as expected <UL> <LI>Acceptable applications performance on user interaction&nbsp;</LI> <LI>Compare performance if application is run on a non-virtual server&nbsp;</LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <DIV>See&nbsp;<A href="https://community.qlik.com/t5/Support-Knowledge-Base/Virtualisation-Citrix-and-QlikView/ta-p/1711140" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virtualisation (Citrix)</A> for more information around virtualisation, as well as CITRIX and Qlik.</DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <P>See related article:&nbsp;<A href="https://support.qlik.com/articles/Basic/Qlik-View-server-is-running-on-high-memory-usage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Qlik View server is running on high memory usage</A>?</P> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> Tue, 22 Dec 2020 13:26:58 GMT Yoichi_Hirotake 2020-12-22T13:26:58Z https://community.qlik.com/t5/Official-Support-Articles/QlikView-Server-Virtualization/ta-p/1711876 <P>There are several considerations to make before installing QlikView in a virtual environment</P> <UL> <LI>Evaluate what&nbsp;BIOS / UEFI settings provide best performance;&nbsp;<A href="https://community.qlik.com/docs/DOC-2362" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BIOS settings for Best Performance of QlikView Server and QlikView Publisher</A></LI> <LI>Evaluate what hypervisor (virtual machine monitor) settings provide best performance <UL> <LI>Beware vertical scalability limitations of ESX v3.5</LI> <LI>Memory management such as Transparent Page <STRONG>Sharing and Memory Ballooning </STRONG>may cause instability in the guest system and should be avoided. It's recommended to configure the virtual machine to use static memory allocation.</LI> <LI>Dedicated Resource Pool is required for optimal performance</LI> <LI>Useful for Change Control Environments and Disaster Recovery. Discouraged in Production</LI> <LI>Virtual environments are slower compared to physical computer due to overhead of the hypervisor used</LI> </UL> </LI> <LI>Validate that production applications perform as expected <UL> <LI>Acceptable applications performance on user interaction&nbsp;</LI> <LI>Compare performance if application is run on a non-virtual server&nbsp;</LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <DIV>See&nbsp;<A href="https://community.qlik.com/t5/Support-Knowledge-Base/Virtualisation-Citrix-and-QlikView/ta-p/1711140" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virtualisation (Citrix)</A> for more information around virtualisation, as well as CITRIX and Qlik.</DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <P>See related article:&nbsp;<A href="https://support.qlik.com/articles/Basic/Qlik-View-server-is-running-on-high-memory-usage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Qlik View server is running on high memory usage</A>?</P> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> Tue, 22 Dec 2020 13:26:58 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/Official-Support-Articles/QlikView-Server-Virtualization/ta-p/1711876 Yoichi_Hirotake 2020-12-22T13:26:58Z