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

Kevin Elder

Kevin Elder lives in Portland, Oregon, and is a Principal Architect and Engineer at Xiologix LLC. With over 15 years of experience in IT, focused on selling, installing, and supporting virtualization and storage technologies, Kevin is responsible for customer success from initial design through implementation. He has been installing, managing, and selling VMware products for over 10 years. Kevin holds a VCP 6 and is a Dell EMC Elect for 2017.