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.
Tom Howarth
VMware Communities User Moderator
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
Technical Director, Virtualization
VMware Communities User Moderator
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!
blantant bump
and moved to the more appropiate Performance forum
Tom Howarth
VMware Communities User Moderator
Another shameless Bump :smileygrin:
Tom Howarth
VMware Communities User Moderator
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
Technical Director, Virtualization
VMware Communities User Moderator