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VMware Performance and Capacity Management, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Sunny Dua
Book Image

VMware Performance and Capacity Management, Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Sunny Dua

Overview of this book

Performance management and capacity management are the two top-most issues faced by enterprise IT when doing virtualization. Until the first edition of the book, there was no in-depth coverage on the topic to tackle the issues systematically. The second edition expands the first edition, with added information and reorganizing the book into three logical parts. The first part provides the technical foundation of SDDC Management. It explains the difference between a software-defined data center and a classic physical data center, and how it impacts both architecture and operations. From this strategic view, it zooms into the most common challenges—performance management and capacity management. It introduces a new concept called Performance SLA and also a new way of doing capacity management. The next part provides the actual solution that you can implement in your environment. It puts the theories together and provides real-life examples created together with customers. It provides the reasons behind each dashboard, so that you get the understanding on why it is required and what problem it solves. The last part acts as a reference section. It provides a complete reference to vSphere and vRealize Operations counters, explaining their dependencies and providing practical guidance on the values you should expect in a healthy environment.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
VMware Performance and Capacity Management Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Index

VDI capacity planning


We've covered a lot about SDDC. Let's include VDI, as it shows how capacity management changes when you include higher-level services (above your IaaS).

VDI differs from SDDC at the business level. It is much more than server workload versus desktop workload. With VDI, it is DaaS, which runs on top of the IaaS. So, the scope goes beyond IaaS. It includes the VDI VM (for example, Windows 7 and Windows 2008) and the Horizon infrastructure VM.

As a result, there are three areas where you need to monitor for capacity:

  • The user's VDI VM: This is typically Windows 7 or Windows 10 64-bit. Different users have different workload profiles, even though they may use the same set of applications. I've seen users who use Microsoft Excel with large files and it needs six vCPUs!

  • The Horizon server VM: This includes non-VMware products that complete your DaaS offering. Some products, such as F5 and Trend Micro, are in the data path, so you need to monitor them as their performance can...