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TomHowarth
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Performance testing and replicable results

Anybody know any good (and easy to use) performance testing tools for ESX that spurt out a nice formatable PDF at the end,

I am considering using LoadRunner to preform the scripted load tests but am struggling on the ESX monitoring part, I cant use vmkusage (beta) because

a: it is a beta and

b: it is not a "proper" product (my current clients comment not mine)

so I am at a bit of a loss here.

I know about VMmark and am looking into that at the moment.

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Ken_Cline
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Well, for monitoring, you could use vCharter Pro from Vizioncore. I've got it installed at a couple customer sites and so far, so good. Here's an interesting review.

For the loading piece...don't have any good words for you there!

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PerformanceGrou
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Tom,

To monitor ESX statistics, you could run esxtop in batch mode to collect the ESX statistics and then write a script to post processes the results. Esxtop is also compatible with perfmon so you can use perfmon to create graphs of the results. For more information on esxtop see Appendix A of the resource management guide: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35/vi3_35_25_resource_mgmt.pdf

If you wanted to customize scripts to monitor ESX statistics, you can also pull resource utilization data via the SDK: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/

VMmark may not be what you're looking for. It's a server consolidation benchmark that runs a prescribed set of multiple VMs simultaneously. VMmark comes with a test harness that runs the benchmarks and it generates a report with a score, but it doesn't provide any additional tools for pulling ESX resource utilization stats. For some sample VMmark reports, click on the Results tab on the VMmark page at: http://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark/

I hope this helps!

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blantant bump

and moved to the more appropiate Performance forum

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Tom Howarth VCP / VCAP / vExpert
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Besides third-party tools, you're best off with esxtop, as previously mentioned. More details on esxtop- and VC-based performance analysis are available on the page .

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Another shameless Bump :smileygrin:

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Ken_Cline
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Well, for monitoring, you could use vCharter Pro from Vizioncore. I've got it installed at a couple customer sites and so far, so good. Here's an interesting review.

For the loading piece...don't have any good words for you there!

Ken Cline

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Ken Cline VMware vExpert 2009 VMware Communities User Moderator Blogging at: http://KensVirtualReality.wordpress.com/
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