7 Flings

(related to performance)

SplinterDB Server is a prototype key-value store powered by SplinterDB, a high-performance open-source storage engine developed at VMware Research.

Virtual Machine Desired State Configuration (VMDSC) allows virtual administrators to specify VM CPU/Memory desired state which will take effect upon the next Guest OS reboot. This removes the burden of having to schedule a downtime window with the business/app owners.

The NUMA Observer Fling scans your virtual machine inventory and identifies VMs with overlapping core/NUMA affinities and generates alerts.

Storage Performance Tester is a one-click storage performance test tool, which is able to collect IOPS, latency and CPU cycles per I/O for ESXi storage stack. This tool automates all the testing steps including the customized VMs deployment, I/O workload running, and storage performance analysis.

This toolkit is intended to facilitate managing the lifecycle of these special configurations by leveraging vSphere APIs.

The vSAN performance monitor is a monitoring and visualization tool based on vSAN Performance metrics.

IOBlazer is a multi-platform storage stack micro-benchmark. IOBlazer runs on Linux, Windows and OSX and it is capable of generating a highly customizable workload.