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Benchmarking for VM performance
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If your looking to put a load into the virtual environment to see what the system can handle, I would suggest In the downloads section, you will find an appliance that has this tool built and ready to use.
With it, you will be able to peg CPU, Memory, and HDD Can take some tweaking, and it does run from a Linux command line. Once you have found a good test for your system, you can view the performance of the VM in the built in vSphere tools.
If what your looking for is what kind of load do your current physical machines ask for, you will want to look into some capacity planning tools. VMWare does offer a capacity planning utility that will install and agent onto a physical server and monitor it. After a few days of running, you will be able to see what kind of resources the server is actually using.
There are also third party capacity planning tools out there that you can use as well.
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Brent Schmidt Senior Network Engineer
Keep IT Simple[/color red] Novell Platinum Partner Microsoft Gold Partner
VMWare Enterprise Partner Citrix Gold Partner
With it, you will be able to peg CPU, Memory, and HDD Can take some tweaking, and it does run from a Linux command line. Once you have found a good test for your system, you can view the performance of the VM in the built in vSphere tools.
If what your looking for is what kind of load do your current physical machines ask for, you will want to look into some capacity planning tools. VMWare does offer a capacity planning utility that will install and agent onto a physical server and monitor it. After a few days of running, you will be able to see what kind of resources the server is actually using.
There are also third party capacity planning tools out there that you can use as well.
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Brent Schmidt Senior Network Engineer
Keep IT Simple[/color red] Novell Platinum Partner Microsoft Gold Partner
VMWare Enterprise Partner Citrix Gold Partner
ArizonaGeek
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I would second VMWares capacity planner. It is installed a physical box, can be a desktop even. It needs access to all the networks and within a few days up to a month it will tell you what your machines are running and what type of servers, CPU, memory and bandwidth you'll need. It is relatively cheap.
I worked a place that had about 50 physical servers in 2007. We virtualized all 50 on to 3 Dell 2950s with 32gb of RAM and an EMC fiber channel SAN. Right now my environment is about 75 servers and desktops on 3 Dell R610's with 64gb of memory each, dual 6 core processors on each and a Dell Equallogic SAN.
If that gives you any idea of what you'll need, really it'll be based on your environment and you're needs.
Cheers
Rob
The answer is always "PEBKAC!
I worked a place that had about 50 physical servers in 2007. We virtualized all 50 on to 3 Dell 2950s with 32gb of RAM and an EMC fiber channel SAN. Right now my environment is about 75 servers and desktops on 3 Dell R610's with 64gb of memory each, dual 6 core processors on each and a Dell Equallogic SAN.
If that gives you any idea of what you'll need, really it'll be based on your environment and you're needs.
Cheers
Rob
The answer is always "PEBKAC!
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