vSphere 5 Performance & Capacity Resources
Podcasts
FEATURED: Planning for Performance and Capacity in vSphere 5 with Scott Herold
Virtualization is in a stage where it is all about "more". Performance and capacity management are playing an increasingly more important role within the datacenter as more systems and more data of a more critical nature with more stringent requirements on IT staff are moved into the virtual infrastructure with vSphere 5. Learn top tips from virtualization expert Scott Herold as he helps navigate some of the many hurdles customers have faced in the maturing virtual datacenter.
Myth Busting Goes Virtual with Mattias Sundling and Eric Sloof
Watch as Quest Software Virtualization Envangelist Mattias Sundling and VMware Certified Instructor Eric Sloof bust common virtualization myths.
- Do iSCSI RDMs actually provide superior performance over VMFS?
- Does CBT really cause significant overhead on your VMs?
- Should you always use resource pools to allocate resources to VMs?
- Is LSI SCSI always a better choice than Paravirtual SCSI?
Preparing for vSphere 5's Unexpected Performance and Capacity Impacts
In this two-part podcast, vExpert Greg Shields and Sr. Systems Engineer from VKernel, Jonathan Klick discuss VM performance and capacity considerations for VM administrators that are investigating the new features in vSphere 5. The two-part podcast and covers:
- vRAM licensing for vSphere 5 feedback from VMworld 2011
- Observations of increasing cost concerns in various virtual environments
- Analysis of the new Storage DRS feature in vSphere 5, and how to go about assessing implementation
- The ramifications and implementation considerations for the "Monster VM"
- Analysis of new metrics available in vSphere 5
- Wish list of metrics to introduce into future versions of vSphere, just in case any vSphere product managers are listening
David Davis on vSphere 5 - What's New
Taped at VMworld 2011 Las Vegas. David Davis walks through an overview of what is new in vSphere 5. David was a vSphere 5 beta user so had some advanced look at what was in the new release. Also a quick review of new vOPS 4 from VKernel.
Capacity Management Free Tool
vOPS™ Server Explorer
vOPS™ Server Explorer is a suite of free capacity and performance management utilities for VM administrators. vOPS Server Explorer provides a "Google-like" VM search and environment-wide visualization of performance, capacity and efficiency health.
Virtualization Management Software
vOPS™ Server Standard
vOPS™ Server Enterprise (formerly vFoglight + VKernel vOperations Suite) is a tool that provides deep real-time monitoring for VMs, non-virtualized servers, guest OS and applications such as SQL Server.
White Papers
Preparing for vSphere 5’s Unexpected Capacity and Performance Impacts
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.
Resolving VMware vSphere's Six Biggest Performance Issues
VMware vSphere 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 by Virtualization guru, Greg Shields and learn how you can turn endless vCenter metrics into actionable intelligence and leverage best practices to improve performance in every VMware environment.
Virtualization Blogs
Voice Over IP (VoIP) Performance Evaluation on VMware vSphere 5.0
Additionally, here's a great write-up by Eric Sloof of NTPro.nl, on VoIP Performance Evaluation on VMware vSphere 5.0 ... accompanied by the VMware white paper.
