Eric Sloof

One of my virtualization friends is attending the VMworld 2010 in San Francisco and has sent me some pictures of an early beta storage troubleshooting tool. VMware Storage Tester is an virtual appliance solution for performance and diagnostics. VMware Storage Tester automates the traditional storage performance analysis cycle to reduce the diagnosis time from days to hours. It provides an automated framework for configuring and launching storage diagnostic test in large-scale virtual deployments. In future releases it will feature a rule-based diagnostic engine running a decision tree algorithm to provide diagnostic information based on a knowledge base and the stored performance database.

If you’re attending the VMworld make sure you save some time to walk through the performance lab and stay till the end :-) This lab covers performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization in VMware vSphere.  Key concepts of performance will be presented via hands-on activities that will demonstrate the concepts.  The lab will explore Storage bottlenecks, CPU contention, and Memory over commitment issues. Participants will learn how to identify these common performance issues using VMware vCenter charts and performance metrics. Participants will also learn basic tuning recommendations for how to address these issues and optimize their virtual environment.

Lab 24: VMware vSphere Performance & Tuning 

   

This year to give VMworld Attendees the best possible hands-on experice, a huge VMware team worked out a huge infrastructure of 2 datacenters in the Cloud (internet) and one on-site, to provide a fully self-serviced lab system with 30 topics covering allmost all VMware solutions. If you did not have a change to be here in San Francisco, check out VMworld in Copenhagen that will be held in October, as this same awesome Lab Environment will be available there as well to the attendees.