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VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Hersey Cartwright, kim bottu
Book Image

VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Hersey Cartwright, kim bottu

Overview of this book

VMware is the industry leader in data center virtualization. The vSphere 6.x suite of products provides a robust and resilient platform to virtualize server and application workloads. With the release of 6.x a whole range of new features has come along such as ESXi Security enhancements, fault tolerance, high availability enhancements, and virtual volumes, thus simplifying the secure management of resources, the availability of applications, and performance enhancements of workloads deployed in the virtualized datacenter. This book provides recipes to create a virtual datacenter design using the features of vSphere 6.x by guiding you through the process of identifying the design factors and applying them to the logical and physical design process. You’ll follow steps that walk you through the design process from beginning to end, right from the discovery process to creating the conceptual design; calculating the resource requirements of the logical storage, compute, and network design; mapping the logical requirements to a physical design; security design; and finally creating the design documentation. The recipes in this book provide guidance on making design decisions to ensure the successful creation, and ultimately the successful implementation, of a VMware vSphere 6.x virtual data center design.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Network resource management


In a vSphere environment, physical network resources are shared across multiple virtual machines and services. The ability to ensure that sufficient capacity is available across shared resources, therefore, becomes important. If a single virtual machine or a VMkernel network service, such as vMotion or fault tolerance, saturates the available network capacity, other virtual machines and services, including host management services, may be adversely impacted.

How to do it…

  1. Identify the traffic shaping and network resource controls available in the virtual network switches.

  2. Determine the network resources required for different traffic types: management, IP storage, vMotion, and virtual machine traffic.

  3. Design traffic shaping, Network I/O Control (NIOC) policies, and Network Resource Pools to guarantee or limit network resources for the network traffic types based on the design requirements.

How it works…

Traffic shaping is used to limit the amount of bandwidth available...