VMware Performance Analyzer
We've been seeing some drops in performance of our two hosts over the past month and I was wondering if there were any products out there, or maybe something built within VMware, that analyzes the...
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There are quite a few products vailable - VMware OPs Mananger, Quest Foglight and Veeam One and CiRBA just to name a few
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Thanks. Are any of those free or have trial periods? I'd like to see what exactly they monitor and analyze before purchasing anything. Thanks again.
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The Veeam, Quest and VMware provide evaluation periods - CiRBA does not it is more aimed for the large enterprise but IMHO has most powerful hueristics of the group -
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Great. Could you give me an example of what some of these do? Are they actually monitoring the hosts and letting you know if the RAM needs expanded, more CPUs added, etc.?
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All of them monitor both host and VM and will alert you in the event of resource contention or impending contention -
View ArticlePipe name with VMWare ESXi 4.1
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hi i have exactory the same problem here.dose anyone know how to solve them?
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View ArticleiSCSI, jumbo frames, and vMotion question
Hello, I have an ESXi 4.1 cluster using vCenter and a MD3200i SAN. I am going to be doing an upgrade to optimise the setup, which includes the installation of quad-port NICs in the hosts which will be...
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Networking problem, help tracing issue
Hi, I have a VMware ESXi 4.1.0 server that is running two Windows 2008 VMs.The VMware server has two 1Gb NICs. Now I have a problem where one of the VMs looses the network randomly for a minute or...
View ArticleRe: iSCSI, jumbo frames, and vMotion question
You don't need to enable Jumbo Frames on all vSwitches, only in the ones connected to uplinks that are configured for that. About vMotion, try to choose one single vmkernel port for that (the port can...
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The VM that fails connect to an iSCSI from within Windows? Try to configure vmnic0 as active and vmnic1 as standby on the vSwitch, just to check if the nic is the problem (each VM should be using one...
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What about the physical switches? Do I need to enable jumbo frames on only the physical switches the iSCSI is connected too? Will this cause problems for any devices connected to those switches;...
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Sure. If you will enable Jumbo Frames, you will need to have dedicated switches for that, or a switch than can have different MTUs over their ports.
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