There has been new book announced recently called vSphere High Performance Cookbook. The author is Prasenjit Sarkar who works for VMware as a senior technical staff in VMware Service Provider Cloud R&R. The book (currently in pre-order should be out this month – July 31st).
Prasenjit Sarkar (@stretchcloud) is VCAP-DCD4/5, VCAP-DCA4/5, VCAP-CIA, vExpert 2012/2013 and currently on his journey to become VCDX.
You'll learn how to troubleshoot vSphere performance and identify the root causes for bad performance. Also, you'll learn to design and configure different parts of vSphere (vCPU, networking, storage) to became more reliable and more performant. In addition, there are chapters to design vCenter server , VM and application tuning.
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.
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.
What you'll learn in this book?
- Understand VMM Scheduler, Cache aware CPU Scheduler, NUMA Aware CPU Scheduler, and so on during CPU Performance Design
- Learn about the virtual memory reclamation technique, monitoring host ballooning, and swapping activity
- Get to grips with different vSwitch load balancing, considerations for checksum offloading, VMDirectPath I/O, and so on
- Understand DRS algorithms, resource pool guidelines, SIOC threshold consideration, SDRS and its affinity/anti-affinity rules in DRS, SDRS, and resource control design
- Scale up and scale out cluster design for performance, FT and its caveats, application monitoring, DPM, host affinity/anti-affinity rules
- Design your vSphere storage based on various workloads and FC storage for best performance
- Choose the right platform while designing your vCenter Server, redundant vCenter design, vCenter SSO and its deployment
The book is curently in pre-order at Amazon – vSphere High Performance Cookbook – and also at other online bookstores. The publisher is PACKT Publishing.
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