How to use perfmon to do vm sizing

[titanax]

Hi folks,

Is it possible to just get info via perform to do the necessary sizing for vmware? I'm in a situation where I can't use the VMware tool & have to use perfmon only.

Advise?

[demz]

Of course you can collect statistical performance with perfmon on Windows in order to do capacity planning.

Be sure to select relevant counters (CPU, mem, I/O disk, I/O net) and to do the collect as long as possible (one month is good).

On the other hand you'll have to analyse result manually by yourself...

[titanax]

thanks demz, can you give specifics on which counter to add? i think i'll need to figure out how to analye the results too..

[demz]

You can take a look particulary to these counters :

\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time

\Memory\Available Bytes

\PhysicalDisk(_Total)\Disk Transfers/sec

\PhysicalDisk(_Total)\Disk Read Bytes/sec

\PhysicalDisk(_Total)\Disk Write Bytes/sec

\Network Interface(Network Adapter)\Bytes Total/sec

Hope this helps