Performance Performance Best Practices in Virtualization and Cloud – Updated (4/8/12) Virtualize Business Critical Applications http://blogs.vmware.com/apps/ Managing your cloud’s performance: Best practices http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218319/Managing_your_cloud_s_performance_Best_practices Top Five Best Practices for Ensuring Optimal Cloud Performance http://www.itbusinessedge.com/slideshows/show.aspx?c=92967 Best Practices in Cloud Performance Management https://cloudsleuth.net/blog/best-practices-cloud-performance-management Managing your cloud’s performance: Best practices http://www.channelworld.in/features/managing-your-clouds-performance-best-practices E-Guide: Private cloud performance assurance: Best practices http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1341508543_789.html Performance Study of Oracle RAC on VMware vSphere 5.0 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/OracleRAC-perf-vSphere5.pdf Performance Study of Virtualized IBM solidDB Universal Cache and IBM DB2 on the IBM System x3850 X5 server with MAX5 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/solidDB-perf-vsphere5.pdf Network I/O Latency in vSphere 5 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/network-io-latency-perf-vsphere5.pdf Voice Over IP (VoIP) Performance Evaluation on VMware vSphere 5.0 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/voip-perf-vsphere5.pdf VMware vCloud Director 1.5 Performance and Best Practices http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vcloud-director-perf.pdf VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0 Performance and Best Practices http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/srm5-perf.pdf Storage vMotion of a Virtualized SQL Server Database http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-svMotion-SQL-Performance.pdf A Benchmarking Case Study of Virtualized Hadoop Performance on VMware vSphere 5 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-Hadoop-Performance-vSphere5.pdf VMware View 5 Performance and Best Practices http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/view/VMware-View-Performance-Study-Best-Practices-Technical-White-Paper.pdf Best Practices for Performance Tuning of Latency-Sensitive Workloads in vSphere VMs http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-Tuning-Latency-Sensitive-Workloads.pdf Performance of VSA in VMware Sphere 5 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vsa-perf-vsphere5.pdf VMware vSphere 5.0 Upgrade Best Practices http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vSphere-5-Upgrade-Best-Practices-Guide.pdf Achieving a Million I/O Operations per Second from a Single VMware vSphere 5.0 Host http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/1M-iops-perf-vsphere5.pdf VMware vCenter Update Manager 5.0 Performance and Best Practices http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vum-perf-vsphere5.pdf Performance Implications of Storage I/O Control–Enabled NFS Datastores in VMware vSphere 5.0 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/sioc-nfs-perf-vsphere5.pdf Understanding Memory Management in VMware vSphere 5 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/mem_mgmt_perf_vsphere5.pdf Host Power Management in VMware vSphere 5 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/hpm-perf-vsphere5.pdf Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Performance on vSphere 5 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/exchange-perf-vsphere5.pdf Zimbra Collaboration Server Performance on VMware vSphere 5 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/zimbra-perf-vsphere5.pdf vMotion Architecture, Performance, and Best Practices in VMware vSphere 5 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vmotion-perf-vsphere5.pdf Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 5.0 http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere5.0.pdf Whats New in VMware vSphere 5.0 Performance http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMware-vSphere-50-Performance-Technical-Whitepaper.pdf Whats New in VMware vSphere 5.0 Platform http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMware-vSphere-50-Platform-Technical-Whitepaper.pdf VMware vSphere 4.1 Networking Performance http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Performance-Networking-vSphere4-1-WP.pdf Performance Troubleshooting for vSphere 4.0 http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/10352-2-28235/vsphere4-performance-troubleshooting.pdf Performance Troubleshooting for vSphere 4.1 http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadBody/14905-102-2-17952/vsphere41-performance-troubleshooting.pdf Performance of Multiple Java Applications in a VMware vSphere 4.1 Virtual Machine http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW_Performance_multiJVM_vSphere_4_1.pdf Running Epicor ERP on VMware vSphere http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMware_and_Epicor_Deployment_Guide.pdf Virtualizing IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1 on VMware vSphere 4 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/IBM_Lotus_Domino_on_vSphere_V1.pdf VMware vCloud Director 1.0 Performance and Best Practices http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-Performance-vCloud-Director-1-0.pdf Performance of VMware vCenter 5.0 in Remote Offices and Branch Offices (ROBO) http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-WP-Performance-vCenter.pdf Performance of Virtualized SQL Server–Based VMware vCenter Database http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vmware-vsphere-virt-sql-vcdb-WP-EN.pdf Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 4.1 http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere4.1.pdf Performance of Enterprise Java Applications on VMware vSphere 4.1 and SpringSource tc Server http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vsp_41_olio_tcServer.pdf VMware vSphere Sets New World Record TPC-H with the ParAccel Analytic Database http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMware_vSphere_Sets_New_World_Record_TPC-H.pdf VMware vCenter Update Manager Performance and Best Practices for vSphere 4.1 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vsp_41_perf_UpdateManager_Best-Practices.pdf VMware vCenter Server Performance and Best Practices for vSphere 4.1 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vsp_41_perf_VC_Best_Practices.pdf VMware vSphere: The CPU Scheduler in VMware ESX 4.1 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW_vSphere41_cpu_schedule_ESX.pdf Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Performance on VMware vSphere 4.1 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vsp_41_sharepoint_perf.pdf Understanding Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX 4.1 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vsp_41_perf_memory_mgmt.pdf SAP Performance on vSphere with IBM DB2 and SUSE Linux Enterprise http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vsp_41_perf_SAP_SUSE_DB2.pdf Managing performance variance of applications using Storage IO control http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vsp_41_perf_SIOC.pdf What's New in VMware vSphere 4.1 – Performance http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-Whats-New-vSphere41-Performance.pdf Running Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro 7.5 on VMware vSphere 4 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VCMPInstallGuide.pdf Fujitsu Three-Tier Benchmark Test Results for SAP on VMware vSphere http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Fujitsu-SAP-Three-Tier-Benchmark-vSphere.pdf PVSCSI Storage Performance http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsp_4_pvscsi_perf.pdf Performance Brief for IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0 with VMware ESX 4 on HP ProLiant DL380 G6 Servers http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/Alliances-WebSphere-vSphere4_Nehalem-Performance-HPProliant-Servers.pdf Analysis of IBM System x3850 M2 Performance and Scalability with VMware vSphere 4 and SAP Solutions http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/WP-x3850M2-VMware-SAP-Scaling112009.pdf VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.0 Performance and Best Practices for Performance http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-vCenter-SRM-WP-EN.pdf VMCI Socket Performance http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsp_4_VMCI_socket_perf.pdf Using Lab Manager for the Support Organization at SAP Business Intelligence http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/Lab_Manager_For_Software_Support_Organization_SAP.pdf Performance Troubleshooting for VMware vSphere 4 http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/10352-1-28235/vsphere4-performance-troubleshooting.pdf Performance Evaluation of VMXNET3 Virtual Network Device http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsp_4_vmxnet3_perf.pdf Understanding Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/perf-vsphere-memory_management.pdf VMware vCenter AppSpeed Evaluator’s Guide http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vCenter_AppSpeed_1.0_Evaluators_Guide.pdf Virtual Machine Monitor Execution Modes in VMware vSphere 4.0 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/perf-vsphere-monitor_modes.pdf VMware vSphere 4: The CPU Scheduler in VMware ESX 4 http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/perf-vsphere-cpu_scheduler.pdf VMware vSphere 4 Fault Tolerance: Architecture and Performance http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/perf-vsphere-fault_tolerance.pdf VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Performance and Best Practices http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_SiteRecoveryManager10_Best-Practices.pdf VMware vSphere 4 Performance with Extreme I/O Workloads http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsp_4_extreme_io.pdf Best practices for performing storage performance tests within a virtualized environment http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2019131