Tag: Performance

Zenoss Delivers Monitoring for Applications Built on Cloud Foundry

Cloud management innovator provides free monitoring solution for Cloud Foundry application developers Zenoss, Inc., a next generation provider of management software for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT environments, today announced the availability of their monitoring solution for applications built on Cloud Foundry, the open platform as a service. Available as a free, open source product,… Continue reading Zenoss Delivers Monitoring for Applications Built on Cloud Foundry

Strengthening the “Weak Link” in Virtualization

Storage Area Networks (SANs) and virtualization (e.g. Microsoft’s Hyper-V, VMware’s ESX) are the rapidly growing present and dominant future of general purpose computing. After all the “cloud” is based on these technologies. Key to these new technologies is the sharing of computing resources, which by definition, are limited. Speed of business isn’t just important –… Continue reading Strengthening the “Weak Link” in Virtualization

You Are Virtualized for Top Efficiency, Right?

Taking it off the charts with lean storage utilization and maximized I/O performance Intense demands for network efficiency and lower operating costs are driving the phenomenal growth of virtualization. Yet despite outstanding virtualization technologies, the ability to effectively share resources in virtual environments runs into three barriers: I/O bottlenecks and performance degradation created by accelerated… Continue reading You Are Virtualized for Top Efficiency, Right?

Zenoss Announces Free Tool for VMware Power Users with Esxtop

VMware esxtop gives you more than just metrics, it helps with troubleshooting your environment and it shows you where the problem actually is. Similar to the Unix “Top” command, esxtop gives you real-time system performance data of your ESX/ESXi servers. One of the tricks being that you have to access this through the command line interface of the individual server.