vBenchmark - Pretty cool

I just finished downloading and installing the new fling from VMware Labs called vBenchmark.

“vBenchmark provides a succinct set of metrics in these categories for your VMware virtualized private cloud. Additionally, if you choose to contribute your metrics to the community repository, vBenchmark also allows you to compare your metrics against those of comparable companies in your peer group.”

As you can see from the screenshot, vBenchmark gives you basic information about your infrastructure and compares it to other companies in your “Peer Group”  (this is compared against All / All / Worldwide)

The ability to see how we are utilizing our environment against others so we can decide if we are over / under utilizing our pools is the main draw of this fling.

It will be interesting to see how this grows as more people start using it and what the comparison will look like at the end of each month. From the data it looks like we are defiantly under utilizing our vRAM and have over utilized the VMs per CPU (or at least to the comparison data) which is exactly what we are trying to achieve with our environment.

I encourage everyone to go out and try vBenchmark (http://labs.vmware.com/flings/vbenchmark), there is a pile more Benchmarks to compare against that may or may not be useful to you.