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White Papers

NEW: Maximizing Virtual Machine Performance

A well-tuned foundation enables you to make better use of your virtual infrastructure. Optimizing CPU, memory, disk and network will improve performance and make your virtual environment more efficient to manage. Download this white paper by Quest Evangelist, Mattias Sundling, for a guide to performance tuning in order to maximize VM performance in your environment.

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Removing Data Waste from Virtualized Storage

Forgotten data objects can clog up VMware storage and other resources causing slow VM performance and decreases in data center ROI. This whitepaper walks through each of the data objects that can create waste and describes how to clean up unused data objects to increase performance and data center ROI.

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VMware Performance Monitoring to Avoid Slow VMs

Proactive VM monitoring helps maximize ROI & maintain high VM performance. In this free white paper, you will learn how to avoid slow VM performance issues by monitoring four vital resource areas:

 
  • CPU Utilization
  • Memory Utiliation
  • Storage Utilization
  • Disk I/O Latency Levels

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VM Performance Free Tool

vOPS™ Server Explorer

vOPS Server Explorer is a suite of free capacity management utilities for VM administrators.  vOPS Server Explorer provides a "Google-like" VM search and environment-wide visualization of performance, capacity and efficiency health.

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VKernel Blogs

Avoiding Slow VM Performance - Maintaining VM Performance

In this two part blog series, VKernel's Product Marketing Manager, Alex Rosemblat, discusses regular VM monitoring processes in order to avoid slow VM performance and maintain a health VM environment.

Read Blog - Part OneSlow VM Performance Blog (Part 1)

Read Blog - Part TwoSlow VM Performance Blog (Part 2)

VM Performance and Capacity Health Visualization For All

In this blog, VKernel's Product Marketing Manager, Alex Rosemblat, writes about the release of vOPS Server Explorer, a free tool from VKernel that visualizes the performance and capacity health of VMs, hosts and datastores across data centers, resources and vCenter servers.

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