The Peningo VMware Consultants Blog tag:vmware.peningoblog.com,2008://7 2008-11-10T13:39:03Z Movable Type 3.2ysb5-20051201 Performance and Best Practices for VMware Update Manager tag:vmware.peningoblog.com,2008://7.50 2008-11-10T13:27:24Z 2008-11-10T13:39:03Z [This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of VMware Consulting Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the Peningo VMware Consultants page ] VMware has released a White Paper... Edward Pellon www.peningo.com [This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of VMware Consulting Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the Peningo VMware Consultants page ]

VMware has released a White Paper titled “VMware Update Manager Performance and Best Practices”. VMware Update Manager (VUM) is a component of VMware Infrastructure that automates patches and upgrades of ESX hosts as well as Windows and Linux virtual machines. The White Paper provides information on VUM 1.0 host deployment, latency, resource consumption, guest OS tuning, high-latency networks, and the impact of on-access virus scanning. Also this White Paper provides performance tips to help customers tune the system for better performance. We at Peningo Systems strongly recommend this “White Paper” for any VMware Consultant, VMware Architect or IT Executive who are involved in the deployment and implementation of the VMware Update Manager..

This study covers the following topics:

 

  • Benchmarking Methodology
  • VUM Server Host Deployment
  • Latency Overview
  • Resource Consumption Matrix
  • Guest Operating System Tuning
  • Network Latencies
  • On-Access Virus Scanning
  • Conclusion
  • References

 

If you wish to view this white paper, please click the link below:

 http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vum_1.0_performance.pdf

If you are an “End Client” looking for a VMware Consulting Service provider to support your Applications,  Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

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]]> VMware - Recommendations For Aligning VMFS Partitions tag:vmware.peningoblog.com,2008://7.49 2008-11-08T17:03:13Z 2008-11-10T13:41:43Z Edward Pellon www.peningo.com [This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of VMware Consulting Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the Peningo VMware Consultants page ]

 

VMware has released a White Paper titled “Recommendations For Aligning VMFS Partitions”. The White Paper provides decision makers the information on partition alignment, a known issue in physical file systems, and its remedy. The goal of the testing reported in this paper was to validate the assumption that unaligned partitions also impose a penalty when the partition is a VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMware VMFS) partition.

This paper lists a summary of the results of our testing, recommendations for VMware VMFS partition alignment, and the steps needed to create aligned VMware VMFS partitions. It covers the following topics:

 

• Executive Summary on page 1

• Recommendations on page 2

• Instructions for VMware VMFS Partition Alignment Using fdisk on page 2

• Instructions for Guest File System Alignment on page 3

• Caveats on page 5

• Background on page 5

• Performance Results on page 8

• Conclusion on page 10

• References on page 10

 

If you wish to view this white paper, please click the link below:

 

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_partition_align.pdf

 

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