By Leah Schoeb, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, VMware Power Saving turned on in the server BIOS has been the cause of many performance issues reported in vSphere 4.1. In fact it has been the #1 resolution to performance problems reported in the past few months. It has masked itself as performance issues with CPU, memory, network, and even storage. Certain applications are also very sensitive to processing speed latencies may show less than expected performance when processor power management features are enabled. Before spending many hours trying to identify performance issues check to make sure that power saving is turned... Continue reading