VSphere High Performance Cookbook.

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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.

VCenter Single Sign-On and its deployment.

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 and some VMware experience who wish to learn about advanced optimization and the configuration features and functions for vSphere 5.1.

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