Performance Links - Master List

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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  If you find an outdated link or have another to be added, please comment below.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 Blogs

Performance Communities

Performance Whitepapers

vSphere Performance Documentation Center

Business Critical Applications

Performance Best Practice Guides

Performance Troubleshooting Guides

Performance Hands On Lab

Performance Tools

Performance Books

Performance Videos

Performance Education

Performance Scripting

Misc Links

Performance Blogs

Blogs typically contain the latest information and updates that may not have made it into existing documentation yet.  Plus they explore topics deeper and often contain interesting data points.

VMware’s Tech-Marketing Performance Blog

VMware’s Perf-Eng Blog (aka VROOM!)

Virtualize Business Critical Applications

Performance Communities

This is a great place to start searching for existing answers and asking questions of the performance community.

Performance Community

VMmark Community

IO Analyzer Community

Performance Whitepapers

Technical Whitepapers

vSphere Performance Documentation Center

vSphere Monitoring and Performance for 5.0

vSphere Monitoring and Performance for 5.1

vSphere Monitoring and Performance for 5.5

Business Critical Applications

Master Link

Performance Best Practice Guides

vSphere 4.0

vSphere 4.1

vSphere 5.0

vSphere 5.1

vSphere 5.5

Performance Troubleshooting Guides

vSphere 4.1

vSphere 5

vSphere 5.x with vCOps

Performance Hands On Labs

HOL-SDC-1304 – Optimize vSphere Performance

Performance Tools

esxtop

Duncan’s (Yellow-Bricks) esxtop Page

Interpreting esxtop Statistics

Interpreting esxtop 4.1 Statistics

Flings

VisualEsxtop

StatsFeeder

esxplot

Performance Books

Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere

vSphere High Performance Cookbook

Troubleshooting vSphere Storage

Performance Videos

VMworld 2013 San Fran – Monster VM Panel Discussion

VMUG Presentation - Performance Recommended Practices

VMUG Presentation - Troubleshooting Storage Performance

Performance Education

These links reference a few VMware Education courses that contain performance and troubleshooting guidance.

VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V5.0]

VMware vCenter Operations Manager: Analyze and Predict [V5.X]

VMware vSphere: Manage for Performance [V4.x]

Performance Scripting

PowerCLI & vSphere Statistics – Multipart Series

vCenter Performance Manager Documentation 5.1

vCenter Performance Manager Documentation 5.5

Misc Links

This section references a number of miscellaneous resources.

Best Practices for Performance – Detailed Whitepapers

History

18Nov2013 – First Published

5Feb2014 - Added VMUG Videos

[karaus]

Wow, this is an impressive list! Golden bookmark

Here's a few suggestions for the misc resources group:

- Richard McDougall's "vmware performance for gurus" @ VMware Performance for Gurus - A Tutorial

- Iwan Rahabok's "perf management in a virtual world" @ https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-22034

cheers!