vSphere High Performance Cookbook Second Edition

Over 80 recipes to help you improve vSphere 6.5's performance and solve problems before they arise

About This Book

• The practical recipes provide cost-effective and high performance for any application running in a virtual machine
• Contains best practices and troubleshooting techniques to resolve vSphere 6.5 performance issues
• Get a comprehensive coverage of performance issues and solutions including vCenter Server design and virtual machine and application tuning

Who This Book Is For

If you are a system administrator and are planning to deploy vSphere 6.5 in your organization and want to maximize its performance, then this book is for you. Prior knowledge of the vSphere 6.5 concepts is essential.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the VMM Scheduler, cache aware CPU Scheduler, NUMA aware CPU Scheduler, and more during the CPU Performance Design phase
• Get to know the virtual memory reclamation technique, host ballooning monitoring, and swapping activity
• Choose the right platform while designing your vCenter Server, redundant vCenter design, and vCenter SSO and its deployment
• Learn how to use various performance simulation tools
• Design VCSA Server Certificates to minimize security threats
• Use health check tools for storage and boost vSphere 6.5's performance with VAAI and VASA

In Detail

vSphere is a mission-critical piece of software for many businesses. It is a complex tool, and incorrect design and deployment can create performance related issues that can negatively affect the business. This book is focused on solving these problems as well as providing best practices and performance-enhancing techniques. This edition is fully updated to include all the new features in version 6.5 as well as the latest tools and techniques to keep vSphere performing at its best.

This book starts with interesting recipes, such as the interaction of vSphere 6.5 components with physical layers such as CPU, memory, and networking. Then we focus on DRS, resource control design, and vSphere cluster design. Next, you'll learn about storage performance design and how it works with VMware vSphere 6.5. Moving on, you will learn about the two types of vCenter installation and the benefits of each. Lastly, the book covers performance tools that help you get the most out of your vSphere installation.

By the end of this book, you will be able to identify, diagnose, and troubleshoot operational faults and critical performance issues in vSphere 6.5.

Style and approach

This 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.

超過80個食譜，幫助您提升vSphere 6.5的性能並在問題出現之前解決它們。

關於本書：
- 這些實用的食譜為在虛擬機器中運行的任何應用程序提供具有成本效益和高性能的解決方案。
- 包含解決vSphere 6.5性能問題的最佳實踐和故障排除技巧。
- 全面涵蓋性能問題和解決方案，包括vCenter Server設計、虛擬機器和應用程序調整。

適用對象：
- 如果您是系統管理員，計劃在組織中部署vSphere 6.5並希望最大化其性能，那麼本書適合您。需要對vSphere 6.5概念有一定的了解。

學到什麼：
- 在CPU性能設計階段了解VMM Scheduler、cache aware CPU Scheduler、NUMA aware CPU Scheduler等。
- 了解虛擬內存回收技術、主機充氣監控和交換活動。
- 在設計vCenter Server、冗餘vCenter設計和vCenter SSO及其部署時選擇合適的平台。
- 學習如何使用各種性能模擬工具。
- 設計VCSA Server證書以減少安全威脅。
- 使用存儲健康檢查工具，並通過VAAI和VASA提升vSphere 6.5的性能。

詳細內容：
vSphere對許多企業來說是一個至關重要的軟件。它是一個複雜的工具，不正確的設計和部署可能會產生性能相關問題，對業務產生負面影響。本書專注於解決這些問題，並提供最佳實踐和性能增強技術。本版本完全更新，包括6.5版本的所有新功能，以及保持vSphere最佳性能的最新工具和技術。

本書首先介紹了一些有趣的食譜，例如vSphere 6.5組件與CPU、內存和網絡等物理層的交互作用。然後我們專注於DRS、資源控制設計和vSphere集群設計。接下來，您將了解存儲性能設計以及它如何與VMware vSphere 6.5配合使用。然後，您將了解兩種類型的vCenter安裝及其各自的好處。最後，本書介紹了幫助您充分利用vSphere安裝的性能工具。

通過閱讀本書，您將能夠在vSphere 6.5中識別、診斷和排除操作故障和關鍵性能問題。

風格和方法：
本書以實用、有幫助的風格撰寫，提供了許多食譜，重點解答和提供解決常見和不太常見的性能問題和問題。