My virtualization somethings, somewhats and the like.
Reading Time: 6 minutes As we already have seen in the beta release (see my part deux post about Login VSI at https://www.pascalswereld.nl/2014/02/07/login-vsi-vdi-part2/), Login VSI version 4.1 introduces the ability to import performance data from any CSV source in the Login VSI Analyzer. From the box, we can use Windows Performance Monitor, VMware’s esxtop/resxtop or other tools with an export to …
Reading Time: 4 minutes I have already done some posting about analyzers, optimization and IO offloading (https://www.pascalswereld.nl/post/72323420934/ram-based-storage-vdi and https://www.pascalswereld.nl/post/71309552232/reducing-io-at-host), but a question that rises often in VDI projects is what IO(PS) do we expect in what layers of the infrastructure and how can we measure them accordantly? But first start at the start. What kind of IO can we expect …
Reading Time: 4 minutes Ever had a customer environment where either a deployment is done over WAN links or the customers wants to change there WAN links, and they (or you in planning or testing phase) are interesting to see what happens in advance? Or you just want to know how latency or ping drops in a WAN link …
Reading Time: 6 minutes So I got myself a VDI infrastructure based on VMware Horizon view. Planning or Design phase done, first implementing phase done. Depending on your why’s you are either in concept planning phase or testing before going to production. Good let’s introduce the next step in the project phases, planning for workload or testing the infrastructure …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Last month I did a blog post of a fling I often use in project phases (read it at https://www.pascalswereld.nl/post/58225706990/vmware-io-analyzer-fling). I want to blog about another fling you can use in a project and also in normal management of virtual infrastructures. This fling is called vBenchmark and can create reports of your virtual environment with measurements …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Flings in VMware labs is a great place for (very) useful tools or applications. This time I want to blog about a fling I often use in a test phase for implementation projects or in health assessments, see what synthetic load an environment can handle and if your vSphere design is up to the right …