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Using Prometheus and Grafana to monitor a Nutanix Cluster.
Using a small python script we can liberate data from the “Analysis” page of prism element and send it to…
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Nutanix specific hints & tips
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A Nutanix / Prometheus exporter in bash
Overview For a fun afternoon project, how about a retro prometheus exporter using Apache/nginx, cgi-bin and bash!? About prometheus format…
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Viewing Nutanix cluster metrics in prometheus/grafana
Using Nutanix API with prometheus push-gateway. Many customers would like to view their cluster metrics alongside existing performance data using…
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Effects of CPU topology on sqlserver guests with AHV.
VM CPU Topology The topology (layout) that AHV presents virtual Sockets/CPU to the guest operating system will usually be different…
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Using cloud-init with AHV command line
TL;DR Using cloud-init with AHV is conceptually identical to using KVM/QEMU- we need to use a few different tools with…
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Comparing RDS and Nutanix Cluster performance with HammerDB
tl;dr In a recent experiment using Amazon RDS instance and a VM running in an on-prem Nutanix cluster, both using…
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Single threaded DB performance on Nutanix HCI
tl;dr A Nutanix cluster can persist a replicated write across two nodes in around 250 uSec which is critical for…
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AHV Tip: Shutdown multiple VMs in parallel
Often in my lab I want to shutdown a large number of VMs quickly. In the example below I submit…
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AOS 6.1 Improvements for Day-2 database operations.
AOS 6.1 greatly improved database performance on Nutanix especially when the guest VM uses just a single disk for all…
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How to deploy Ubuntu cloud images to Nutanix AHV
In this example we use the KVM cloud image from the Canonical Ubuntu image repository. More information on Ubuntu cloud…
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Nutanix Performance for Database Workloads
We’ve come a long way, baby. Full disclosure. I have worked for Nutanix in the performance engineering group since 2013.…
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A Generalized workload generator for storage IO
With help from the Nutanix X-Ray team I have created an IO “benchmark” which simulates a “General Server Virtualization” workload.…
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Advanced X-Ray: reducing runtime by re-using VMs.
How to speed up your X-ray benchmark development cycle by re-using/re-cycling benchmark VMs and more importantly data-sets.
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How to performance test Nutanix on AWS with X-ray
End to End Creation of a Nutanix Cluster on AWS and Running X-Ray
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Nutanix X-Ray video Series
A series of videos showing how to install, run, modify and analyze HCI clusters with the Nutanix X-ray tool
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How to measure database scaling & density on Nutanix HCI platform.
How can database density be measured? How does database performance behave as more DBs are consolidated? What impact does running…
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How to run vdbench benchmark on any HCI with X-Ray
Many storage performance testers are familiar with vdbench, and wish to use it to test Hyper-Converged (HCI) performance. To accurately…
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Measuring CPU performance with X-Ray and pgbench.
An X-ray workload for measuring application density
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