Vsphere High Performance Cookbook

by Prasenjit Sarkar

A cookbook is the ideal way to learn a tool as complex as vSphere. Through experiencing the real-world recipes in this tutorial you'll gain deep insight into vSphere's unique attributes and reach a high level of proficiency. Overview In Detail VMware vSphere is the key virtualization technology in today’s market. vSphere is a complex tool and incorrect design and deployment can create performance-related problems. vSphere High Performance Cookbook is focused on solving those problems as well as providing best practices and performance-enhancing techniques. vSphere High Performance Cookbook offers a comprehensive understanding of the different components of vSphere and the interaction of these components with the physical layer which includes the CPU, memory, network, and storage. If you want to improve or troubleshoot vSphere performance then this book is for you! vSphere High Performance Cookbook will teach you how to tune and grow a VMware vSphere 5 infrastructure. This book focuses on tuning, optimizing, and scaling the infrastructure using the vSphere Client graphical user interface. This book will enable the reader with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to build and run a high-performing VMware vSphere virtual infrastructure. You will learn how to configure and manage ESXi CPU, memory, networking, and storage for sophisticated, enterprise-scale environments. You will also learn how to manage changes to the vSphere environment and optimize the performance of all vSphere components. This book also focuses on high value and often overlooked performance-related topics such as NUMA Aware CPU Scheduler, VMM Scheduler, Core Sharing, the Virtual Memory Reclamation technique, Checksum offloading, VM DirectPath I/O, queuing on storage array, command queuing, vCenter Server design, and virtual machine and application tuning. By the end of this book you will be able to identify, diagnose, and troubleshoot operational faults and critical performance issues in vSphere. What you will learn from this book Approach 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.

240 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Mike Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Packt Publishing was gracious enough to provide me with a free copy of the ebook for review. You can read more about the book on Packt Publishing's site:

http://www.packtpub.com/vsphere-high-...

You can read the review on my blog here:

http://virtuallymikebrown.com/2013/10...

An excerpt from my blog below.

The book states its audience includes technical professionals with vSphere administration experience that want to use advanced options and configurations to optimize their environments. The vSphere platform used in the book is 5.1. As I was reading, I kept wanting to give the book to the VMware admins I’ve come across to help them improve their deployments because I know how much they could use the recipes inside. In my varied VMware experiences, I’ve come across many of the topics presented in the book. I know first-hand how useful they can be and how often they go unnoticed or are left unconfigured.