In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
Meeting higher I/O needs with the VMware Paravirtual controller
Improving network performance with the VMXNET 3 network adapter
Using new virtual hardware
Controlling storage space used by virtual disks
Managing space used by snapshots
Improving host productivity with Flash Read Cache
Speeding up VMs with Flash Read Cache
Optimizing host power consumption
Considering NUMA when configuring RAM
vCPU versus pCPU and time slots