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sakacc

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February 24th, 2011 12:00

vSphere Performance - Customer Workload Data

As of March 14th, this thread remains open, but the IX2 giveaway is closed (30 given away).  Thanks, and please continue to provide data!!!

This is a discussion thread where customer who have used the following freely provided, as-is, powershell scripts to gather their vSCSIstats and ESXtop (and optionally their EMC back-end storage) performance data can share their results.

While these will be there for the overall community to use (as this forum is completely public), within EMC this data will be used to further improve our storage platforms, and ensure we are testing against "customer like" scenarioes.

Any customer who posts their ESXtop and vSCSIstats (from their "heavy hitting VMs") performance data (if you are an EMC customer, the EMC array stats are bonus), I will provide an iomega IX2 to as a "thank you"

Please post your environment info and the output from the scripts (can be large, but is VERY compressible, please zip) on this thread.

As you post your results by continuing the discussion thread, please note some details about your environment:

  1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts?
  2. how many VMs?
  3. what vSphere version?
  4. VMFS, NFS, Both?
  5. What type of array backs the datastores?

The scripts to simplify gathering your data are below:

As always thank you for being VMware and EMC customers!

gwblok1

3 Posts

March 8th, 2011 07:00

  1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts? - 9 Dell Servers Four 2950's & five 610 Blades
  2. how many VMs? 120
  3. what vSphere version?4.0.0 Build 258672
  4. VMFS, NFS, Both? VMFS only
  5. What type of array backs the datastores? EMC CX4-240 with 9 DAEs of All sorts of Discs.

I was having problems with vscsistats and  Performance Statics gathering.  It's probably just me not knowing what I'm doing.

I was able to get run the ESXCollect ESXtop, so I'm uploading what I can, hopefully it will be helpful.


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Mtw1

2 Posts

March 8th, 2011 10:00

1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts? - Gathered data from a Cluster with 5 hosts (HP DL 585 G5, 16x 2,2 -2,9 GHz Opteron 83xx, 128GB RAM).
Runtime ~ 22 hours. 30 hosts in 16 clusters in our environment. 14 prod, 2 lab.
2. how many VMs? - 282 in this cluster, 707 total
3. what vSphere version? ESXi 4.1.0, 320137
4. VMFS, NFS, Both? - VMFS only
5. What type of array backs the datastores? EMC VMAX, Enginuity 5875, FC & SATA.
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Michael
P.S. Sorry, forgot the Datastores 1070_ds101_view - 1070_ds110_view and 1070_ISO. These are from a HP EVA 4100. All others are from the VMAX.

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clintonskitson

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March 8th, 2011 21:00

Michael,

Thanks for the post!  If anyone is curious to see VAAI stats, since this from a VMax running 5875, there are a bit of VAAI statistics in this post.  Look for ATS, Clone, Zero in the columns.

Mtw1

2 Posts

March 8th, 2011 22:00

Clinton,

We're currently migrating our Exchange 2007 environment to dedicated FC VP pools with dedicated Clusters in two sites.

Can give you some more stats in a view weeks.

Michael

dpironet

9 Posts

March 9th, 2011 12:00

  1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts? 2 hosts
  2. how many VMs? 10
  3. what vSphere version? vSphere ESX 4.0U1 build 208167
  4. VMFS, NFS, Both? VMFS over iSCSI
  5. What type of array backs the datastores? HP MSA 2012i dual controllers

The ESXTOP scripts ran for 72 hours.

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sixfootdad

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March 9th, 2011 19:00

  1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts? 5
  2. how many VMs? 10-15
  3. what vSphere version? ESXi 4.1
  4. VMFS, NFS, Both? Both
  5. What type of array backs the datastores? IBM, NetApp

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marketforcewa

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March 9th, 2011 22:00

Gidday, I hope that this is what you're looking for ...

  1. How many ESX/ESXi hosts?
    • 5 x Sun X8420 Blade Servers in B8000 chassis - with total of 102GHz and 224GB of RAM available to the cluster.
  2. How many VMs?
    • 24 VMs - running 2xXP, 1xWin 2000 Pro, 5xW2K3, 5xW2K8R2, 6xRHEL 5.x, 3xCentOS 5.x, 2xNetWare 6.5
  3. What vSphere version?
    • All vSphere ESXi 4.1.0 (Build 260247)
  4. VMFS, NFS, Both?
    • VMFS via 4gb FC
  5. What type of array backs the datastores?
    • Sun 6540 SAN with FC & SATA datastores

I ran the vscsistats against all our VMs on all our hosts.  We run a mix of Lotus Notes, MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Apache, and BorderManager applications (as well as a few others) on our virtualised servers - so I figured it would be easier to just do the lot.

I hope attached data sufficent, let me know if you need more.  (The esxtop was easy, but vscsistats was a pain to have to refresh every 30 mins)

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benwayj

56 Posts

March 10th, 2011 05:00

As you post your results by continuing the discussion thread, please note some details about your environment:

  1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts? 7 host
  2. how many VMs? ~170 vms mostly windows 2003/8
  3. what vSphere version? 4.1
  4. VMFS, NFS, Both? VMFS
  5. What type of array backs the datastores? CX3-40

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bwiechman

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March 10th, 2011 11:00

  1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts? 3 Dell R610, 24GB 1333MHz RDIMMs, 2xE5520 @ 2.26GHz, onboard NICs
  2. how many VMs? 15 or so
  3. what vSphere version? ESXi 4.1.0, 348481
  4. VMFS, NFS, Both? VMFS
  5. What type of array backs the datastores? EMC AX4-5i 1xDPE, 1xDAE SAS

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paetec-bell

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March 10th, 2011 12:00

  1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts?
    1. 49
  2. how many VMs?
    1. 622
  3. what vSphere version?
    1. 4.0/4.0u2/4.1
  4. VMFS, NFS, Both?
    1. VMFS
  5. What type of array backs the datastores?
    1. DMX 4, CX700

Need anything else give me a shout.

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jpaul_sms

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March 10th, 2011 12:00

1.) how many ESX/ESXi hosts

     2 ESXi Servers --- HP Dl365 G1, 2 x Dual Core 2218 CPU's 10GB Ram/8GB Ram

2.) how many VMs?

     15 total,about half linux half windows

3.) what vSphere version

     4.1 update 1

4.) VMFS, NFS, or both?

     VMFS on FC

5.) What type of array

     HP MSA1000 2Gbps Fiber Channel, single controller

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BElsass_SMS

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March 10th, 2011 13:00

  1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts? -> 2 DL360 G6 Servers
  2. how many VMs? -> 20 Windows VMs
  3. what vSphere version? -> vSphere 4.1
  4. VMFS, NFS, Both? -> VMFS
  5. What type of array backs the datastores? -> iSCSI SAS Array

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mwpr3ston

4 Posts

March 11th, 2011 10:00

Sweet Deal...Here's my data...

  1. how many ESX/ESXi hosts? 8 hosts, however missing one at the moment...so 7
  2. how many VMs? 80
  3. what vSphere version? 4.1
  4. VMFS, NFS, Both? VMFS
  5. What type of array backs the datastores?  EVA 6400 FC, MSA 1000 FC and some iSCSI

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clintonskitson

116 Posts

March 14th, 2011 09:00

Here is a first look at how the CSVs generated can be used to generate the attached images.  If anyone has any feedback on how the data is represented, please feel free to reply.  Hopefully I will be posting the no-nonsense script that generates the graphs this week with some documentation.

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DHAINICH

4 Posts

March 14th, 2011 11:00

Hello Clinton,

could you update the vscsistat-script?

Best Regards

D.Hainich

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