About
Richard McDougall is a Principal Engineer at VMware, where he focusses on scalability, observability and performance of virtualization systems.
Richard is the co-author of “Solaris Internals”, “Solaris Performance and Tools” (solarisinternals.com) and the lead author for “Resource Management” (Prentice Hall/Sun Blueprints). He has written numerous articles and papers on measurement, monitoring and capacity planning of Solaris systems, and frequently speaks at industry and customer technical conferences on the topics of system performance and resource management.
Prior to VMware, Richard was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer specializing in Operating Systems technology and system performance. Based at the Menlo Park Performance and Availability Engineering group, he drove development of performance and behavior enhancements to the Solaris Operating system and Sun’s hardware architectures. He has led the development of resource management principles, contributed to the development of virtual memory and file systems within the Solaris operating system, and has architected many tools for analysis, monitoring and capacity planning.
