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VSphere High Performance Cookbook.

VSphere High Performance Cookbook is written in a practical, helpful style with numerous recipes focusing on answering and providing solutions to common, and not-so common, performance issues and problems. The book is primarily written for technical professionals with system administration skills an...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sarkar, Prasenjit
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: CPU Performance Design; Introduction; Critical performance consideration
  • VMM scheduler; CPU scheduler
  • processor topology/cache aware; Ready time
  • warning sign; Hyperthreaded core sharing; Spotting CPU overcommitment; Fighting guest CPU saturation in SMP VMs; Controlling CPU resources using resource settings; What is most important to monitor in CPU performance; CPU performance best practices; Chapter 2: Memory Performance Design; Introduction.
  • Virtual memory reclamation techniquesMonitoring host-swapping activity; Monitoring host-ballooning activity; Keeping memory free for VMkernel; Key memory performance metrics to monitor; What metrics not to use; Identifying when memory is the problem; Analyzing host and VM memory; Memory performance best practices; Chapter 3: Networking Performance Design; Introduction; Designing a network for load balancing and failover for vSphere Standard Switch; Designing a network for load balancing and failover for vSphere Distributed Switch; What to know when offloading checksum.
  • Selecting the correct virtual network adapterImproving performance through VMDirectPath I/O; Improving performance through NetQueue; Improving network performance using the SplitRx mode for multicast traffic; Designing a multi-NIC vMotion; Improving network performance using network I/O control; Monitoring network capacity and performance matrix; Chapter 4: DRS, SDRS, and Resource Control Design; Introduction; Using DRS algorithm guidelines; Using resource pool guidelines; Avoiding using resource pool as folder structure; Choosing the best SIOC latency threshold.
  • Using storage capability and profile driven storageAnti-affinity rules in the SDRS cluster; Avoiding the use of SDRS I/O Metric and array-based automatic tiering together; Using VMware SIOC and array-based automatic tiering together; Chapter 5: vSphere Cluster Design; Introduction; Trade-off factors while designing scale up and scale out clusters; Using VM Monitoring; vSphere Fault Tolerance design and its impact; DPM and its impact; Choosing the reserved cluster failover capacity; Rightly choosing the vSphere HA cluster size; Chapter 6: Storage Performance Design; Introduction.
  • Designing the host for a highly available and high-performing storageDesigning a highly available and high-performance iSCSI SAN; Designing a highly available and high-performing FC storage; Performance impact of queuing on the storage array and host; Factors that affect storage performance; Using VAAI to boost storage performance; Selecting the right VM disk type; Monitoring command queuing; Identifying a severely overloaded storage; Chapter 7: Designing vCenter and vCenter Database for Best Performance; Introduction; vCenter Single Sign-On and its database preparation.