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title: "Virtual Machine Best Practices"
canonical: "https://docs.infoblox.com/space/NetMRIAdminG752/42075975/Virtual%20Machine%20Best%20Practices"
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Follow the points below to ensure efficient VM-based Collector operation:

1. *Disable or adjust VM performance monitoring systems for the product.*
  - Because Operations Center VMs tend to be extremely I/O intensive, with continuous 100% CPU utilization, vSphere performance monitoring should be reduced or disabled.
2. *Avoid placing multiple NetMRI instances on the same host.*

Operations Center/NetMRI instances present significant demands on I/O, particularly on virtual machine hosts. Avoid attempting to run Operations Center appliance instances on hosts with other VMs.

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*3. In the host, use a high-quality RAID controller.*

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*4. Enable Intel VT options in the BIOS of the host system.*