Sounds like something from a technophile’s Christmas list – PowerGadgets. It’s actually a set of tools to create some nice performance monitoring gadgets for the Vista sidebar. I’m mentioning them because yesterday I presented to the VMware R&D group on pains that our customers face when deploying in a Microsoft or Linux shop. This was an internal follow-up to my presentations at VMworld 2008 on the same topics only I tuned this presentation to let our R&D folk know what we could do to help our customers out.
A lot of customers have asked me if there’s a better way to get more performance information out of VirtualCenter or ESX itself. They want some sort of customizable graph they can put on their desktop. Enter this great writeup on how to use the VMware VI Toolkit and PowerGadgets to monitor host CPU and memory utilization. It’s worth a read and possibly even a use or two.
I’m still working with the R&D folk to see what other neat things we could possibly create. In the mean time if you’ve seen or written other nice utilities for monitoring performance then please comment and let the readers know.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Mike;
I’m going to be perfectly self-serving here. Our product, up.time, taps into the ESX APIs and extracts detailed information that allows you to profile instance workload across a server or many servers in an ESX farm. We can also track instances as they get VMotion’d about. Check out some screen shots at http://www.uptimesoftware.com/screenshots.php
Thanks.
Alex