Today Login VSI released a new version of their end-user computing monitoring tool Login PI (1.5). Login PI is a monitoring tool that measures the performance and availability of a virtual computing environment from a user perspective. New Features in this release: New Dashboard Network latency measurements Logon time breakdown New Installer that contains an installer for fresh installations of PI and one for Upgrades Dashboard With this new release the most impressive new … [Read more...]
In the test: Nexenta CE with VMware I/O Analyzer
27 June 2012 by 9 Comments
Wondering what the performance is of my home build Nexenta CE box connected to one ESX host over Fiber Channel. I started testing with three I/O Analyzer VM’s distributed over 3 LUN’s connected with FC. (using Fiber Channel target with Nexenta CE is not supported) 512bytes Read Throughput Benchmark Results: 100% Read: 378MB/sec … [Read more...]
Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 4.1
10 November 2010 by Leave a Comment
VMware has released a new white paper Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 4.1. The paper which contains 60 pages provides performance tips which cover the most performance-critical areas of VMware vSphere 4.1. Chapter 1 - “Hardware for Use with VMware vSphere,” provides guidance on selecting hardware for use with vSphere. Chapter 2 - “ESX and Virtual Machines,” provides guidance regarding VMware ESX™ software and the virtual machines that run in it. Chapter 3 - “Guest … [Read more...]
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