Performance Links - Master List
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 If you find an outdated link or have another to be added, please comment below.Thanks, @vmMarkA  Table of Contents Performance...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 Applications on VMware Virtual SAN
Web applications are an integral part of Enterprise and small business IT offerings, and a robust storage backend for these applications is essential. VMware performance labs undertook testing of...
View ArticleMicrosoft Exchange Server Performance on VMware Virtual SAN
VMware performance testing shows that Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 on Virtual SAN clusters scales well without affecting much user-perceived application latency as more Exchange users are deployed...
View ArticleDistributed Query Processing in SAP IQ on VMware vSphere and Virtual SAN
This performance study demonstrates that VMware vSphere 5.5 provides an excellent platform for virtualized deployments of SAP IQ multiplex servers. Two modes of distributed query processing to share...
View ArticleVSAN I/O Analyzer Performance Profiles
Attached are two VSAN performance testing profiles for the I/O Analyzer appliance. They will be included in future releases of the I/O Analyzer. They can be used with the VMware Virtual SAN POC Guide....
View ArticleVMware Horizon 6 and Hardware Accelerated 3D Graphics - Performance and Best...
This whitepaper discusses the support for hardware accelerated 3D graphics that is available with vSphere 5.5 and Horizon 6 and presents performance and consolidation results for a number of different...
View ArticleHorizon 6 RDSH Performance & Best Practices
This paper shows the performance of remote sessions (desktops and seamless applications) and the performance of the RDSH virtual machines, paying particular attention to the sizing of the Horizon 6...
View ArticleLeveraging NIC Technology to Improve Network Performance in VMware vSphere
This paper reviews the performance of all the different physical NIC technologies supported through vSphere 5.5, including:NetQueueRSSSplitRxModeTCP segmentation offload and checksum offload of VXLAN...
View ArticleVirtualized Hadoop Performance with VMware vSphere 6 on High-Performance Servers
Large advances have been made in hardware and every level of the software stack since the virtualized Hadoop tests published in April 2013. This paper shows how to take advantage of these advances to...
View ArticlePerformance Evaluation of Network I/O Control in VMware vSphere 6
VMware vSphere 6.0 enhances Network I/O Control (NetIOC) to support a number of exciting new features, such as bandwidth reservations. This paper describes tests that demonstrate the performance of...
View ArticleVMware vSphere 6 and Oracle Database Scalability Study
VMware conducted a series of tests to demonstrate the performance and scalability of large virtual machines on vSphere 6 running Oracle Database 12c. Using a transactional workload, it was found that a...
View ArticleVMware Virtual SAN Performance with Microsoft SQL Server
This paper shows the results of a scalability study with the DVD Store workload on Virtual SAN. The database for the DVD Store workload was Microsoft SQL Server.Two cases were examined:The number of...
View ArticleVMware View Planner 3.5 - VDI Performance Characterization Tool
This whitepaper provides a brief summary of View Planner 3.5 new features, which include the support of Horizon 6, RDSH-based desktop session and application publishing, and new workloads for mouse...
View ArticleVMware Virtual SAN 6.0 Performance: Scalability and Best Practices
This white paper investigates how VMware Virtual SAN performs and scales for well understood synthetic workloads, Virtual SAN caching tier designs, and Virtual SAN configuration parameters. The goal is...
View ArticlePerformance of Virtual SAN Snapshots in vSphere 6.0
In VMware vSphere 6.0, snapshots with VMware Virtual SAN have been completely redesigned. In this paper, we present the performance of Virtual SAN snapshots for two different applications, namely a...
View ArticleHorizon 6 RDSH Optimization Tool
The Horizon 6 RDSH optimization tool makes some registry changes to optimize the RDSH server VM image to get better performance.Please use this software only if you understand the risks and the...
View ArticleBest Practices for Performance Tuning of Telco and NFV Workloads in vSphere
The vSphere ESXi hypervisor provides a high-performance and competitive platform that effectively runs many Tier 1 application workloads in virtual machines. By default, ESXi has been heavily tuned for...
View ArticleWhat's New in vSphere 6 -- Performance
This document captures in one place all of the performance improvements made for VMware vSphere 6.0.
View ArticlevCenter Server 6.0 Cluster Performance
This paper shows the performance of vCenter Server 6.0 clusters and illustrates the performance improvements over vCenter Server 5.5. This paper also compares the performance of vCenter Server on...
View ArticlevCenter Server 6.0 Performance and Best Practices
VMware vCenter Server 6.0 substantially improves performance over previous vCenter Server versions. This paper demonstrates the improved performance in vCenter Server 6.0 compared to vCenter Server...
View ArticleDeploying Extremely Latency-Sensitive Applications on vSphere 5.5
In order to support virtual machines with strict latency requirements, vSphere 5.5 introduced a new per-VM feature called Latency Sensitivity. Among other optimizations, this feature allows virtual...
View ArticleVMware Virtual SAN Stretched Cluster - Performance and Best Practices
This white paper examines the performance aspects of a Virtual SAN stretched cluster deployment. Specifically, it examines the overhead of synchronously replicating data across two geographical sites...
View ArticleVirtualizing Performance-Critical Database Applications in VMware vSphere 6.0
The performance parity between bare-metal and virtualized servers is an accepted fact today. But what about the most demanding applications, such as monster virtual machines running databases and...
View ArticleVMware vSphere 6 Fault Tolerance - Architecture and Performance
This white paper gives a brief description of the vSphere 6 FT architecture and discusses the performance implication of this feature with data from a wide variety of workloads.
View ArticleStorage I/O Performance on vSphere 6.0 U2 over 32 Gigabit Fibre Channel
This paper explores vSphere 6.0 U2 storage performance improvements of 32GFC over 16GFC. Iometer is used as the micro-benchmark to generate I/O and measure performance.
View ArticlevCenter Update Manager Performance and Best Practices
In the vSphere 6.5 release, vCenter Update Manager (aka VUM) has been integrated into the vCenter Server appliance (VCSA) for the Linux platform. The integration eliminates remote data transfers...
View ArticleUnderstanding vSphere DRS Performance
vSphere 6.5 paper This paper is similar to the vSphere 6.0 paper, below, but shows the performance for new features in vSphere 6.5. DRS is now more efficient and faster, and when used with VMware...
View ArticleEncrypted vMotion Architecture, Performance, and Best Practices
This paper describes:vSphere 6.5 Encrypted vMotion technology and architectureHow to configure Encrypted vMotion from the vSphere ClientPerformance implications of encrypting vMotion traffic using...
View ArticlePerformance Implications of Storage I/O-Enabled SSD Datastores in vSphere 6.5
This paper shows the advantages of using Storage I/O Control (SIOC) to manage shared storage using SSD. The study shows that administrators can set the performance expectation of VMs in terms of IOPS...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Encryption Performance in VMware vSphere 6.5
VMware vSphere virtual machine encryption (VM encryption) is a feature introduced in vSphere 6.5 to enable the encryption of virtual machines. VM encryption provides security to VMDK data by encrypting...
View ArticleDRS Cluster Management with Reservation and Shares
In this paper, we cover the basic concepts of reservation and shares in a DRS cluster with resource pools, and explore the implications of setting reservations and shares for a VM and for a resource pool.
View ArticlevCenter Server 6.5 High Availability Performance and Best Practices
VMware performance engineers thoroughly tested VCHA with a benchmark that simulates common vCenter Server activities in both regular and worst case scenarios. The result is solid data and a...
View ArticleChangelog
IOInsight v1.1.1Â [April 12, 2017]Added option to download logs for troubleshootingRemoved 'Send Logs' option as we were not receiving mails from external networks due to mailserver issueFixed support...
View ArticleWhat's New in Performance in vSphere 6.5?
This paper describes new performance enhancements and features included in vSphere 6.5, all in one place. -Updated Apr 14, 2017 to fix small typo
View ArticleOracle Monster VM Performance on vSphere 6.5
We tested the performance of "monster" virtual machines running Oracle databases. We ran tests across a range of server generations to illustrate how much performance has increased with each new...
View ArticleFast Virtualized Hadoop and Spark on All-Flash Disks - Best Practices for...
Note: This paper has been updated for vSphere 6.5. The version for 6.0 is attached, below, as well. Best practices are described for optimizing Big Data applications running on VMware vSphere....
View ArticlePerformance of Storage Policy-Based Management (SPBM) in vCenter Server 6.5
Storage Policy-Based Management (SPBM) is a storage policy framework that helps administrators match VM workload requirements against storage capabilities. SPBM runs as an independent service in the...
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VMmark result submit - generate Name-Mapping File
HelloAccording to the user guide, if I want to submit the result to VMware and list on the VMmark result website I need to create a Name-Mapping file before submission. Do I need to type the .vmx path...
View ArticlePerformance of Enterprise Web Applications in Docker Containers on vSphere 6.5
In this paper, we explore the performance characteristics of a large enterprise web application running in Docker containers deployed in VMware vSphere 6.5 virtual machines (VMs). The paper...
View ArticlePerformance Characterization of Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere 6.5
VMware vSphere 6.5 continues to increase the maximum sizes supported for both physical hosts (576 logical CPUs and 12TB of RAM) and virtual machines (128 virtual CPUs and 6TB of RAM). In this paper, an...
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ESX IP Storage Troubleshooting Best Practice - Packet Capture and Analysis at...
Our experience troubleshooting a large number of IP storage issues has shown that the ability to capture and analyze packet traces in an ESX IP storage environment can significantly reduce the mean...
View ArticleBig Data Performance on VMware Cloud on AWS: Spark Machine Learning and IoT...
Both traditional on-premises virtualized private clouds and the new VMware Cloud on AWS provide users the benefits of server consolidation, manageability, and flexibility that VMware brings to the...
View ArticlePersistent Memory Performance on vSphere 6.7
This paper shows the performance of PMEM on vSphere 6.7:We explain how PMEM can be configured and used in a vSphere environment.We describe our experimental setup and various PMEM configurations...
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DRS Enhancements in vSphere 6.7
This paper describes the DRS enhancements in vSphere 6.7, which include new initial placement, host maintenance mode enhancements, DRS support for non-volatile memory (NVM), and enhanced resource pool...
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Media and Entertainment Workloads on vSphere 6.7: Best practices and...
This guide documents VMware best practices and recommendations for running low latency media and entertainment applications in vSphere 6.7 VMs in cloud or hybrid-cloud environments. Due to VMware...
View ArticlevSphere 6.7 Tagging Best Practices
Writing code to use vSphere tags can be challenging in large-scale environments. In this whitepaper, we discuss the scalability limits of tags, and we give some tips and tricks for writing performant...
View ArticleHigh-Performance Virtualized Spark Clusters on Kubernetes for Deep Learning
A virtualized cluster was set up with both Spark Standalone worker nodes and Kubernetes worker nodes running on vSphere virtual machines. The same Spark image classification workload was run on both...
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Performance Best Practices for vSphere 6.7
The latest version of this book provides tips that help administrators maximize the performance of VMware vSphere 6.7, Update 2. Sections cover hardware selection, ESXi and virtual machines, guest...
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