[Discuss] Linux performance measuring

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:41:30PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I need to measure performance on one of our virtual machines. One of
> the things I need to know is how often the memory requirement goes
> about 32GB. Not being an IT guy I have not really looked at tools. I
> am familiar with sar(1) which should give me the data I want.
> Additionally, VMware's vSphere also provides some reporting
> statistics. The vSphere stats give me what I need, but trying to put
> them together meaningfully is a pain. Preferably I would like
> something that is available on the RHEL repo. At the moment I am
> only planning on watching 1 host, but I may end up deploying it to
> several.

systat/sar to begin with, and if you want graphs on many
systems, snmpd and cacti.

-dsr-


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