VMware has pub­lished a new whitepa­per called VMware vCen­ter Server Per­for­mance and Best Prac­tices.

This is a must read if you man­age a vCen­ter 4.1 instal­la­tion, or are cur­rently plan­ning your upgrade.

The whitepa­per high­lights the per­for­mance improve­ments in the lat­est ver­sion, siz­ing guide­lines, best prac­tices and some really good real world infor­ma­tion from sev­eral case stud­ies. One sim­ple, but prob­a­bly often over­looked tip, is that the amount of vCen­ter Clients con­nected to your vCen­ter Server has an impact on it’s per­for­mance. How many admins con­sider that when they start up their clients?

The whitepa­per also comes com­plete with per­for­mance graphs com­par­ing the lat­est release with the 4.0 release, based on real data from sev­eral case studies.

vCenter Performance Graph

If you only read one whitepa­per (this week), let it be this one. You will not regret it, I promise.

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