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VMware’s Performance – Technical Papers•http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/cat/91,96Performance Best...
View ArticleBest Practices for Performance
VMware publishes performance best practices guides for vSphere 4.x and 5.x:VMware vSphere Best Practices GuidesThe following white papers also include best practices for various topics:Applications...
View ArticlePerformance 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 If you find an outdated link or have another to be added, please comment below.Thanks, @vmMarkA Table of Contents Performance...
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Storage System Performance Analysis with Iometer
IntroductionIometer is an open source tool originally developed by Intel that remains the simplest and best means of generating load on a system for performance analysis. Because of minute...
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 ArticleESX Monitor Modes
VMware has supported Intel and AMD's virtualization assist since 2006. Long before then we were using an all-software approach that we call binary translation (BT). With the benefit of years of...
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...
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Memory Performance Chart Metrics in the vSphere Client
The vSphere Client exposes several memory performance statistics for users to identify VM memory usage. Some of the important memory performance metrics follow. Each metric name appears under the...
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...
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