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Scalability 4.0

This topic provides information about performance, scalability and reliability test results for PATROL for VMware vSphere version 4.0.00.

Hardware recommendation

Following table lists the hardware recommendation:

Platform

Configuration item

Value

Microsoft Windows Server x86-64

CPU

2.2 GHz


RAM

8 GB

Configuration best practices

The following tables provide information about the tested configuration scenarios. It also provides the information on the  PATROL Agent performance and the application performance with respect to CPU utilization and memory in Windows platform.

Tested configuration scenario

Platform

Number 
of VMs

Number of 
instances monitored

Number of 
parameters monitored

Microsoft Windows Server x86_64

2500

40K

170K

Warning

Note

This configuration scenario is tested with Windows Server 2008 R2 x86_64 platform.

The VMware vCenter Server inventory details that were used for testing are as follows.

VMware vCenter Server Entity

Count

ESXi hosts

60

Virtual machines

2500

Datastores

270

Virtual clusters

4


Performance Metrics Summary

Microsoft Windows Server x86_64

Metrics

PATROL Agent performance

Java


Average

Maximum

Average

Maximum

CPU (in %)

23

104

9

260

Memory (MB)
(Working Set)

526

1389

1129

1243

Warning

Note

Allocate 25% more memory for maxHeap of Java collector than the values specified in the above tables.

 

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