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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

F5 BIG-IP


F5 BIG-IP is the 500-pound gorilla of Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs). BIG-IP's reputation for performance and configurability is unparalleled.

However, the native options for monitoring are limited to a few dashboards or to using SNMP calls and the iControl API manually:

F5 Big IP – Logical architecture

The Blue Medora management pack for BIG-IP does the heavy lifting, going directly to the iControl API. We bring back metrics and configuration data on physical and virtual systems; iApps and application services; and virtual servers, pools, pool members, and nodes.

From there, the management pack connects BIG-IP components—both nodes and virtual systems—to VMs. This gives you a holistic view of BIG-IP that goes beyond the system itself and out to the VMs that make up the apps:

The F5 BIG-IP World Overview dashboard

The F5 BIG-IP World Overview dashboard provides easy access to performance and availability for the BIG-IP system as a whole. Scoreboards provide the status on...