Measure Performance and Scalability of Virtualized Applications
The VMmark virtualization benchmark is an innovative solution that gives you complete insight into the performance and scalability of heterogeneous workloads, running on multiple virtual machines, consolidated on a physical server. Use VMmark to monitor the performance of virtual machines and compare the performance of virtualization platforms so that you can make appropriate hardware choices for your virtual infrastructure.
Tune and Troubleshoot Virtualization Performance
Virtualization performance depends not only on the performance of vSphere components, but also on the performance of the software applications and the hardware components with which vSphere interacts. Follow vSphere best practices to help ensure optimal system performance. Use the troubleshooting guide to isolate and fix performance problems.
- vSphere Monitoring and Performance
- Troubleshooting Performance-Related Problems in vSphere Environments
- Best Practices for Performance Tuning Latency-Sensitive Workloads in vSphere Virtual Machines
- Timekeeping in VMware Virtual Machines
- Using esxtop
- VMware Communities: Performance & VMmark
- vSphere Performance Frequently Asked Questions
- Conducting Performance Analysis on ESX Server 3
See How vSphere Beats the Competition
In third-party testing, VMware vSphere 5 outperforms Microsoft Hyper-V R2 SP1 by 18.9%. In other tests, vSphere vMotion is faster than Hyper-V Live Migration and Horizon View 5 outperforms Citrix XenDesktop 5.5.
- Virtualization Performance: VMware vSphere 5 vs. Hyper-V R2 SP1
- VMware vSphere vMotion is 5.4 times Faster than Hyper-V Live Migration
- Horizon View 5 Compared to Citrix XenDesktop 5.5
Gain Insight into Tier 1 Application Performance
vSphere 5 virtualizes tier 1 and other applications with excellent scaled-out (increased virtual machines) and scaled-up (increased CPU) performance. Comparisons of environments virtualized on vSphere typically run as well as or better than those running on physical hardware.
vSphere 5
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Performance on VMware vSphere 5
- Zimbra Collaboration Server Performance on VMware vSphere 5
- A Benchmark Case Study of Virtualized Hadoop Performance on VMware vSphere 5
vSphere 4.1
- Performance of Enterprise Java Applications on VMware vSphere 4.1 and SpringSource tc Server
- Performance of Multiple Java Applications in a vSphere 4.1 Virtual Machine
- SAP Performance on vSphere 4.1 with DB2 and SUSE 10
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Performance on VMware vSphere 4.1
vSphere 4.0
- Virtualized SAP Performance with VMware vSphere 4
- Virtualizing Performance-Critical Database Applications in VMware vSphere
Examine the Performance of Key Features in vSphere
Performance testing shows that VMware vSphere continues to provide more and better features in each release. For each release, VMware performance engineers study key features of the product and report the results, which are described in the following papers. Some papers offer best practices that will enhance performance of that feature.
vSphere 5
- What's New in vSphere 5 Performance
- Achieving a Million IOPS for a Single VMware vSphere 5 Host
- vMotion Architecture, Performance, and Best Practices in vSphere 5
- Storage vMotion of a Virtualized SQL Server Database
- VMware View 5 Performance and Best Practices
- VMware vCenter Update Manager 5.0 Performance and Best Practices
- Network I/O Latency
- Performance of Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
- Voice over IP (VoIP) Performance Evaluation on VMware vSphere 5
- vCloud Director 1.5 Performance and Best Practices
- Site Recovery Manager 5.0 Performance and Best Practices
- Performance of VSA in VMware vSphere 5
- Understanding Memory Management in VMware vSphere 5
- Host Power Management in VMware vSphere 5
vSphere 4.1
- What's New in VMware vSphere 4.1: Performance Enhancements
- VMware vCenter Server Performance and Best Practices for vSphere 4.1
- vCloud Director 1.0 Performance and Best Practices
- VMware vSphere 4.1 Networking Performance
- VMware Update Manager Performance and Best Practices for vSphere 4.1
- VMware Network I/O Control: Architecture, Performance, and Best Practices
- Understanding Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server 4.1
- Managing Performance Variance of Applications Using Storage I/O Control
- The CPU Scheduler in ESX 4.1
vSphere 4.0
- What's New in VMware vSphere 4: Performance Enhancements
- VMware vSphere 4 Fault Tolerance: Architecture and Performance
- VMware vSphere 4: The CPU Scheduler in VMware ESX 4
- VMware vCenter 4.0 Database Performance for Microsoft SQL Server 2008
- Achieving High Web Throughput Scaling with VMware vSphere 4 on Intel Xeon 5500 series
- PVSCSI Storage Performance
- VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.0 Performance and Best Practices
- VMCI Socket Performance in vSphere 4.0
- Performance Study of VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning
- Performance Evaluation of VMXNET3 Virtual Network Device
- VMware vSphere 4 Fault Tolerance: Architecture and Performance
- Understanding Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server
- Virtual Machine Monitor Execution Modes in VMware vSphere 4.0
- VMware vCenter Update Manager 4.0 Performance and Best Practices
