Hyper-V Support, Performance and Load Tools

During one of our engagements with Tuev Nord, (one of the world’s largest technical service providers of the Mobility, Industrial Services, International, Natural Resources and Training and Human Resources fields),  the Windows Server Hyper-V feature team supplied an exhaustive list of websites covering documentation and tools around Hyper-V.

 

I thought I’d share that with you.

 

TechNet On Hyper-V

Ø  Hyper-V Getting Started Guide

Ø  Hyper-V: Using Hyper-V and Failover Clustering

Ø  Hyper-V: Using Live Migration with Cluster Shared Volumes in Windows Server 2008 R2

Ø  Planning for Disks and Storage

Ø  Configuring Disks and Storage

 

Performance Counter Information

Ø  Performance Tuning Guidelines For Server 2008 R2 (whole section on Hyper-V)

Ø  Monitoring Hyper-V Performance

Ø  Hyper-V Performance Counters – Part one of many - The overview

Ø  Hyper-V Performance Counters – Part two of many – “Hyper-V Hypervisor” counter set

Ø  Hyper-V Performance Counters – Part three of many – “Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical Processors” counter set 

Ø  Hyper-V Performance Counters – Part four of many – “Hyper-V Hypervisor Virtual Processor” and “Hyper-V Hypervisor Root Virtual Processor” counter set 

 

Performance and Load Tools

Ø  IOMeter

o    IOMeter (http://www.iometer.org/) Pretty much the industry standard for storage benchmarks. See Tony’s link for some good profiles (http://blogs.msdn.com/tvoellm/archive/2009/05/07/useful-io-profiles-for-simulating-various-workloads.aspx)

Ø  NTTCP

      o http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/network/TCP_tool.mspx

Ø  WCAT

o    http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1466 – Microsoft Web Capacity Analysis Tool

Ø  BizTalk

o    Measuring Performance on Hyper-V (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768535(BTS.10).aspx

o    Tools for Measuring Performance (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768530(BTS.10).aspx

Ø  Exchange Servers

o    Exchange Server Stress and Performance Tool http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B9E200D5-18B9-4734-B9D9-9E6EFC48BCB6&displaylang=en

Ø  Active Directory Performance Tool

o    AdTest http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4814FE3F-92CE-4871-B8A4-99F98B3F4338&displaylang=en

Ø  Geekbench

             o  http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench - Pretty new but seems well respected.

Ø  IOZone

             o http://www.iozone.org/

Ø  SQL

o    Running SQL Server 2008 in a Hyper-V Environment - Best Practices and Performance Recommendations.  

Ø  SPEC Benchmarks

      o http://www.spec.org/benchmarks.html - Pretty widely used they have CPU, Graphics, Mail, Java, Etc…  I am not a huge fan and they’re a bit pricy. 

Ø  TPC

      o  http://www.tpc.org – Standard for Databases you can get TPC-E for free but it’s kind of a pain to setup.

 

Kevin Engman

Product Manager - EEC