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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7

Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7

By : Nick Marshall, Mike Brown, G. Blair Fritz, Ryan Johnson
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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7

Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7

By: Nick Marshall, Mike Brown, G. Blair Fritz, Ryan Johnson

Overview of this book

Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7 is the fully updated edition of the bestselling guide to VMware's virtualization solution. Fully updated for vSphere 6.7, it provides comprehensive coverage of all the newest features and capabilities. Written by certified VMware vExperts, this indispensable guide provides hands-on instruction and detailed conceptual explanations, anchored by practical applications and real-world examples. The book begins by introducing the vSphere product suite and its great features, enabling you to learn the process of installation and configure vSphere's extensive networking and storage functionality. You wrap up the configuration discussion with chapters on high availability, redundancy, and resource utilization. After completing the installation and configuration, you learn virtual machine creation and management and then monitoring and troubleshooting. Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7 is what you need to stay up-to-date on VMware's industry-leading software for the virtualized datacenter.
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Acknowledgments
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About the Author
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About the Contributors
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Foreword
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Index
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End User License Agreement

Managing Virtual Machine CPU Utilization

When creating a VM using the vSphere Web Client, you must configure two CPU-related fields. First, select how many virtual CPUs you want to allocate to the VM, and then assign the number of cores to those CPUs (see Figure 11.7). These CPU settings allow the VM's guest OS to use between 1 and 128 virtual CPUs from the ESXi host, depending on the guest OS and the vSphere edition license.

New Virtual Machine dialog box with selected 2f Customize hardware tab, displaying CPU sets to 2, Cores per Socket (*) sets to 2, CPUID Mask sets to Expose the NX/XD flag to guest, and Memory sets to 4096 MB.

FIGURE 11.7 Both the number of sockets and number of cores per socket can be configured for VMs.

When VMware's engineers designed the hypervisor platform, they began with a real system board and used it to model the VM—in this case, it was based on the Intel 440BX chipset. The VM could emulate the PCI bus, which could be mapped to I/O devices through a standard interface, but how could a VM emulate a CPU?

The answer was “no emulation.”

Think about a virtual system board that has a CPU socket “hole” where the CPU is...

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