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5 Replies Last post: Jul 7, 2008 5:58 PM by ejward  

ESX Performance Data ... posted: Jun 19, 2008 5:54 PM

Click to view BacMan's profile Hot Shot 210 posts since
Aug 17, 2005

Hi all,

I am running ESX 3.02. and Vc 2.0.2 and I try to colleting the ESX server performance data for trend analysis and have a few questions

1. By default, how long (days) the ESX keep the performance data? Can we override the default settings? If so, how I do that?

2. Is there a tool that I can use to make a better use of the performance data?

TIA

Re: ESX Performance Data ...

1. Jun 19, 2008 6:04 PM in response to: BacMan
Click to view williamarrata's profile Expert 500 posts since
Jul 19, 2006
You might want to consider looking at a tool like Veeam Reporter which can give you a professional report of all of your hardware, its detailed specifications, and information on all of the virtual machines running on that hardware, including their specifications.

Hope that helped. :-)

Re: ESX Performance Data ...

2. Jun 20, 2008 10:06 AM in response to: BacMan
Click to view drummonds's profile Hot Shot 112 posts since
May 31, 2007
VirtualCenter's performance logging can be modified. Check out the Understanding VirtualCenter Performance Statistics page.

Re: ESX Performance Data ...

3. Jun 20, 2008 2:12 PM in response to: BacMan
Click to view gsosa70's profile Novice 5 posts since
Nov 28, 2007

Have you tried Tek-Tools Profiler for VMware? This tool deploys in minutes and does a great job on providing trending and forecasting on ESX performance and storage. It goes far beyond from anything else I've seen. Very user friendly too. http://www.tek-tools.com/vmwareesx/index.php

Good luck!

Re: ESX Performance Data ...

4. Jul 2, 2008 8:04 AM in response to: BacMan
Click to view MetronAthenePhil's profile Novice 10 posts since
May 29, 2008

Hi BacMan,

As well as having a look at the suggestion above you might want to check out Metron Athene as well.

www.metron.co.uk

Athene interfaces with Virtual Center and can produce trends of the performance data. It'll also allow you to make models and change the hardware/workload and see the impact on the hardware utilisation!

Re: ESX Performance Data ...

5. Jul 7, 2008 5:58 PM in response to: MetronAtheneP…
Click to view ejward's profile Master 863 posts since
Sep 23, 2005
Vkernel has a bunch of good tools http://www.vkernel.com/ I use Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer. I've found VMs hogging resources that I didn't even know existed. and that was with just the eval. Best of all, you just have to download a virtual appliance. No install.

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