Welcome to the largest list of VMware performance links on the Internet. If you find an outdated link or have another to be added, please comment below.
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Table of Contents
vSphere Performance Documentation Center
Business Critical Applications
Performance Best Practice Guides
Performance Troubleshooting Guides
Performance Blogs
Blogs typically contain the latest information and updates that may not have made it into existing documentation yet. Plus they explore topics deeper and often contain interesting data points.
VMware’s Tech-Marketing Performance Blog
VMware’s Perf-Eng Blog (aka VROOM!)
Virtualize Business Critical Applications
Performance Communities
This is a great place to start searching for existing answers and asking questions of the performance community.
Performance Whitepapers
vSphere Performance Documentation Center
vSphere Monitoring and Performance for 5.0
vSphere Monitoring and Performance for 5.1
vSphere Monitoring and Performance for 5.5
Business Critical Applications
Performance Best Practice Guides
Performance Troubleshooting Guides
Performance Hands On Labs
HOL-SDC-1304 – Optimize vSphere Performance
Performance Tools
esxtop
Duncan’s (Yellow-Bricks) esxtop Page
Interpreting esxtop Statistics
Interpreting esxtop 4.1 Statistics
Flings
Performance Books
Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere
vSphere High Performance Cookbook
Troubleshooting vSphere Storage
Performance Videos
VMworld 2013 San Fran – Monster VM Panel Discussion
VMUG Presentation - Performance Recommended Practices
VMUG Presentation - Troubleshooting Storage Performance
Performance Education
These links reference a few VMware Education courses that contain performance and troubleshooting guidance.
VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V5.0]
VMware vCenter Operations Manager: Analyze and Predict [V5.X]
VMware vSphere: Manage for Performance [V4.x]
Performance Scripting
PowerCLI & vSphere Statistics – Multipart Series
vCenter Performance Manager Documentation 5.1
vCenter Performance Manager Documentation 5.5
Misc Links
This section references a number of miscellaneous resources.
Best Practices for Performance – Detailed Whitepapers
History
18Nov2013 – First Published
5Feb2014 - Added VMUG Videos