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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, - Second Edition

By : Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak
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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, - Second Edition

By: Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak

Overview of this book

vSphere 6.7 is the latest release of VMware’s industry-leading, virtual cloud platform. It allows organisations to move to hybrid cloud computing by enabling them to run, manage, connect and secure applications in a common operating environment. This up-to-date, 2nd edition provides complete coverage of vSphere 6.7. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples and self-assessment questions, you will begin with an overview of the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.7 suite. You’ll learn how to design and plan a virtual infrastructure and look at the workflow and installation of components. You'll gain insight into best practice configuration, management and security. By the end the book you'll be able to build your own VMware vSphere lab that can run even the most demanding of workloads.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Getting Started
8
Section 2: Managing Resources
13
Section 3: Advanced Topics
18
Section 4: Building Your Lab Environment

VM Resource Management

Maintaining a resource-optimal vSphere infrastructure is a critical day-to-day operation and should be performed with a strict focus on delivering adequate resources to the virtual machines (VMs) at any given time.

The resources of your vSphere infrastructure are limited, even though vSphere provides many overcommitment techniques so that you can assign more resources than you physically have, but you should try to avoid contention scenarios at all costs because such contention can significantly affect your applications' and workloads' performance.

One of the fundamental techniques that you can use to provide the best possible performance to your VMs is resources, limits, and shares, which you can use to fine-tune resource allocation to different vSphere objects, such as VMs, vApps, and resource pools.

Using vMotion, you can freely move your workloads...