Virtualization Management White Papers
VM Performance
Planning for Performance and Capacity in Virtual Environments *NEW*
In this white paper, we will cut through marketing fluff and learn the raw truth about planning performance and capacity from industry experts. Specifically, we’ll cover how today’s datacenters have become so complex that everyone is paying the price. You’ll learn why capacity analysis is much more crucial when virtualization is in place and how to analyze capacity in a virtual infrastructure in four easy steps. You should always know where your next capacity bottleneck will be, before it happens. Read this white paper and prevent downtime in your virtual infrastructure by mastering capacity planning from the experts.
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.
Ins and Outs of IOPS
Disk performance seems to have traditionally been measured in how many acronyms you could list as present in a solution. In filling the need for better metrics on storage performance, IOPS has become a commonplace term in determining shared storage capabilities. In this white paper, we'll discuss the benefits and pitfalls of focusing on IOPS, and how storage I/O is an often over-simplified topic.
Enhance VMware Performance: 3 Best Practices for Storage and Server Admins
or How to Keep the Peace Between Teams
This white paper explores three steps to unify VMware storage and virtualization teams based on VKernel’s experience working with both server and storage administrators.
Removing Data Waste from Virtualized Storage
Forgotten data objects from virtual machines can clog up virtualized storage. Cleaning up this waste will reclaim storage that can then be reused.
VMware Performance Monitoring to Avoid Slow VMs
or Find avoidable performance issues by monitoring vital resource areas
This free white paper will help you understand how to avoid slow VMware performance by proactively monitoring four key resources.
The Top 20 VMware Performance Metrics You Should Care About
This white paper will describe the metrics you should care about in your virtual environment and how they reveal issues that can be fixed to optimize performance.
The Top 5 VM Performance
Problems
A system metrics‐based approach to detecting, diagnosing and resolving VMware performance issues
This white paper will first explain why locating performance issues in a virtualized environment can be complicated, and will then describe the top VM performance problems with a focus on issue diagnosis and resolution.
Resolving VMware vSphere's Six Biggest Performance Issues
The Essentials Series
VMware vSphere is a complicated beast. It is full of moving parts, deep integrations, and elements that sometimes do and sometimes don’t impact one another. Keeping it running with best performance is a never-ending exercise in capacity management. Read the paper to learn how you can turn endless vCenter metrics into actionable intelligence and leverage best practices to improve performance in every VMware environment.
Virtualization Management
vCPU Sizing Considerations
Challenges and considerations in determining how many vCPU’s to allocate to virtual machines
vExpert David Davis and VKernel Product Marketing Manager Alex Rosemblat have written a white paper for virtualization administrators to gain a deeper understanding of vCPU sizing. By reading this whitepaper, VM administrators will learn how to correctly size VMs, an approach to sizing new VMs that need to be deployed, how to institute a regular CPU sizing process for the data center and much more.
Preparing for vSphere 5’s Unexpected Capacity and Performance Impacts
Considerations for virtualized environments implementing features in VMware vSphere 5
VMware’s latest release of vSphere 5 has something for everyone. However, these new capabilities, while useful at face value, can have unexpected impacts to tasks in capacity and performance management. This whitepaper, explains how to assess implementation options when deploying these new vSphere features.
Five Capacity Management Challenges for Private Clouds Organizations that are seeking to deploy cloud-based business models for their infrastructure face particular capacity management challenges. This paper helps public and private cloud providers to avoid the pitfalls of improper capacity management. While it discusses both types of clouds, the unique challenges of the private cloud business model providers will be especially highlighted.
Memory Management Metrics for VMware Environments
or Tips and Tricks for Effective VMware Memory Management
This white paper provides information on the key VMware memory metrics you should use for VM (virtual machine) memory allocation sizing and VM performance issue monitoring, as well as recommendations on how to make these assessments when large memory pages are in use.
Virtualization Management Index (VMI) Report
System administrators want to know:
- What are typical VM consolidation numbers?
- How much memory are other system administrators over committing?
- How heavily loaded are CPUs in a typical data center?
The Virtual Machine Index (VMI) is the virtualization industry’s first empirical study of virtualized data centers. Drawn from a data set size of over 2,500 unique environments and 550,000 virtual machines, the VMI provides a glimpse into the status of server consolidation measured by the of VMs per host.
9 Storage Considerations for VM Administrators
What a VM administrator needs to know to avoid VM performance problems caused by insufficient VMware storage capacity and plan for environment growth.
Capacity Management
Requirements for Capacity Management in Virtual Environments
Any data center with a virtualized environment has a real need for effective capacity management. This white paper discusses the reasons why capacity management is critical to achieving the benefits of server virtualization, and outlines the three key requirements to consider when evaluating capacity management systems.
Capacity Planning
Detecting Available VM Slots for Capacity Planning
This is a metrics-based approach to calculate how many more VMs can safely fit in a virtualized environment. Knowing how many more virtual machine (VM) slots are actually available is vital to capacity planning. Determing Available VM Slots adds structure and instruction for using VM performance metrics calculations to add precision to capacity planning processes.
Resource Optimization
VM Memory (vRAM) Sizing Considerations
Balancing VM memory sizing to both maximize data center ROI and virtual machine performance can be a difficult task. With the guidance from this white paper, virtualization administrators will gain a deeper understanding of VMware's memory over-commitment capabilities and which VMware system metrics to analyze to make VM memory sizing less painful.
VMware Chargeback
How to Implement Chargeback Using the Resource Consumption Model
~Includes the free Chargeback Calculator~
This is a step–by–step guide to calculating chargeback rates for memory, CPU, and storage. "Showback" to your departments their actual usage as opposed to what they've been allocated and find cost savings.
Setting Prices for Private Clouds
Key to implementing chargeback is setting the chargeback rate. Much as pricing significantly impacts a public cloud provider, for the private cloud provider, the chargeback rate has significant implications. This white paper examines three strategies for setting prices for private cloud operators.
Hyper-V Performance
Avoiding Performance Bottlenecks in Hyper-V
How to eliminate capacity bottlenecks in Hyper-V while placing new VMs for optimal density and performanc
