vSphere Performance - Customer Workload Data

1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts? --> 3 x Dell R710; 8 cores + HT; 96GB RAM
2. how many VMs? 102 and growing
3. what vSphere version? 4.1
4. VMFS, NFS, Both? VMFS and guest-attached iSCSI (MS initiator)
5. What type of array backs the datastores? Dell Equallogic PS6500E

The data is zipped using 7-Zip 9.2 using one of the new algorithms that can use more than 2 concurrent cores for compression.

1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts: 6 ESXi 4.1 on Cisco UCS
2. how many VMs: 50 and rising
3. what vSphere version: 4.1
4. VMFS, NFS, Both: NFS only
5. What type of array backs the datastores: Celerra NS-960

Attached the output of the esxtop and vscsistats script and get_unified_nas_perf with a interval of 300.

I hop this is of any value.

best regards

Andi

Added the output of get_unified_nas_perf in csv format.

Maybe its also worth to mention that all datastoreses are created with the VSI Unified Storage Management vCenter plug-in

1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts? ---> 2 x Dell R710 ESXi hosts
   
2. how many VMs? ---> Small environment.  Only 13 VMs right now, but growing
   
3. what vSphere version? ---> 4.1.0, 320137
   
4. VMFS, NFS, Both? --->  All VMs are on NFS.  Exchange dbs are in RDM using software iSCSI
   
5. What type of array backs the datastores? --->  storage array is NetApp FAS-2020
   

I was able to get the esxtop info (I hope I did it right).  I'm still working on the vscsiStats.  I keep getting a message "not running anymore so quit".  I just got it running.  I'm not sure why but when I run it on my laptop, it works.  Both are Win 7 x64... hmmm

Anyway, here are the vscsiStats too.  I hope this can help, and if I did anything wrong and you need new data, just say so.  Thanks.

1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts? (2 clusters in different offices with 2 Dell R710's connected to common NAS. 8 cores each, running either 48 or 64 GB of RAM)
2. how many VMs? (~10 on business host (100041) and ~20-30 running on dev host (101045), > 100 actually registered at any given time)
3. what vSphere version? ESXi 4.1 (not update 1 yes)
4. VMFS, NFS, Both? NFS Only
5. What type of array backs the datastores? Aberdeen with (12) 1 TB 7200 RPM DATA in Raid 6 - Feeling kinda wimpy with everyone slinging around their EMC and NetApp arrays.  Guess this is real world small business stuff though.

See my attached doc entitiled Environment for more details on setup and timing of data collection.

Couldn't get the ESXTop script to run so I just ran it in batch mode for 4 hours, 30 second intervals.

Data attached in CSV files.

1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts?
   
   • Nine (IBM: 5xHS21, 32GB, E5450 - 4xHS22, 48GB, X5570)
     
2. how many VMs?
   
   • 137 (mostly windows 2003)
     
3. what vSphere version?
   
   • 4.0
     
4. VMFS, NFS, Both?
   
   • VMFS (2 Gb FC)
     
5. What type of array backs the datastores?
   
   • NetApp V3170 (mostly native FC disk, some SATA, some CX700 FC LUNs)
     

The vscsistats script doesn't seem to work with ESX 4.0, I made some edits so the script would at least run and collect some data.  The target was an Autonomy IDOL indexer that appears to be working on a reindex today.

1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts? - 4 * IBM x3650 M2 (2 Intel Xeon x5570 2.93Ghz/32GB RAM per host)
2. how many VMs? - 40
3. what vSphere version? - ESXi 4.1u1
4. VMFS, NFS, Both? - VMFS
5. What type of array backs the datastores - SAS DAS

vSCSStats is still running, I will upload shortly. IO workload is SQL 2008 R2 production servers.

1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts? 10 Production and 3 Test View servers | HP BL460c G1 AMD Opteron 221x (Dual Core, Dual Socket 2.2-2.6Ghz), 32GB ram, 4 Nics, Qlogic 4Gb/s HBA
2. how many VMs? 192 Production + 23 Test View
3. what vSphere version? ESXi 4.1.0 260247
4. VMFS, NFS, Both? VMFS
5. What type of array backs the datastores? EMC CX3 and CX4 Production and CX3 Test View

Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 og some linux servers. Theres Exchange 2003, sql2000, 2005 and 2008 servers. Emailxtender indexserver, vcenter servers, windows AD/DNS, and a lot of web and application servers

Remove the first run and added a weeks data from collect_esxtop

Attatched unifited_perf CX3-40 Primary Production SAN being migrated to CX4-120, CX3-40f is just a replica of CX3-40, using RPA for replication.

Attachted vscsistats.

1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts?

4 ESXi Hosts
3 (esx1-3) - HP DL380 G5, Dual Quad Core 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon x5355, 32 GB RAM
1 (esx4) - HP DL360 G7, Deual Quad Core 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon x5640, 64GB RAM

2. how many VMs?

58 VMs - Mix of Windows 2003, 2008, and Ubuntu
vCenter is also running as a Guest VM

3. what vSphere version?

ESXi 4.1.0, 260247

4. VMFS, NFS, Both?

VMFS for all production VMs.  NFS storage for testing and iso/image storage.

5. What type of array backs the datastores?

Celerra NS20 - Fiber Channel and SATA Shelves.
Most data storage on SATA Drives with most (not all) OS partitions installed on FC

The NFS Server is built on HP DL380G5 running Ubuntu

The esxtop stats were collected over a 24 hour period.

The vscsistats were collected for all VMs over about an 8 hour period, I started out collecting every 60 seconds but had issues and switched to 300 seconds. The results are cumulative over that 8 hour period.  Not sure if I collected these correctly, just let me know if other information is needed.

Thanks

Hersey

Thanks alot

i found a stuppid user = me error when i tried running the cust_get_esxtop_adapters.ps1 alone and found and error i fixed put the timer in and restartet the script, it still only added the first host so far. ill give it some time to run

Best Regards Otto D

Hey All

How long did it take you people to run the script collect_esxtop_adapters.ps1?

mine is gathering from 4 hosts, so far its still gathering from the first host an has been running for 3½ hours

all the hosts are heavely loaded.

Best Regards Otto D

If you follow the instructions in the PDF file, it will run for 24h (this part: $i=0;do {sleep 60;$i++} until($i -eq 1440);get-job|stop-job). If not it will run until you issue the get-job|stop-job command, or close the PowerCLI window.

Sam

1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts? 4 x HP BL460c
2. how many VMs? 50
3. what  vSphere version? 4.0 update 2
4. VMFS, NFS, Both? VMFS
5. What type of  array backs the datastores? HP EVA 8100

1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts?
   • 4 x Dell PowerEdge T300 - Temporary POC Vmware View 4.6 Infrastructure with about 10 users
2. how many VMs?
   • 15 VMs (SQL, VM View Services + Windows 7 Desktops)
3. what vSphere version?
   • vSphere 4.1 and 4.1 update 1
4. VMFS, NFS, Both?
   • VMFS on iSCSI
5. What type of array backs the datastores?
   • Testing Starwind and 4 x HP P4000 VSA on Network RAID

Here's my placeholder for results.

Some details about the lab environment being tested:

1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts? 2
   
2. how many VMs? 54 Virtual Machines and Templates
   
3. what vSphere version? 4.1 Update 1
   
4. VMFS, NFS, Both? Both
   
5. What type of array backs the datastores? EMC Celerra NS-120, NetApp FAS3050c
   

Thank you,

Jas

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