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Intelligent Automation with VMware

By : Ajit Pratap Kundan
Book Image

Intelligent Automation with VMware

By: Ajit Pratap Kundan

Overview of this book

This book presents an introductory perspective on how machine learning plays an important role in a VMware environment. It offers a basic understanding of how to leverage machine learning primitives, along with a deeper look into integration with the VMware tools used for automation today. This book begins by highlighting how VMware addresses business issues related to its workforce, customers, and partners with emerging technologies such as machine learning to create new, intelligence-driven, end user experiences. You will learn how to apply machine learning techniques incorporated in VMware solutions for data center operations. You will go through management toolsets with a focus on machine learning techniques. At the end of the book, you will learn how the new vSphere Scale-Out edition can be used to ensure that HPC, big data performance, and other requirements can be met (either through development or by fine-tuning guidelines) with mainstream products.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

vSAN policy design with SPBM


The storage class definition in vSphere maps to policies that are defined through vSAN SPBM to achieve different levels of service level agreements (SLAs) and quality of service (QoS), and can leverage these benefits from advanced vSAN data service functionalities such as de-duplication, compression, and checksums. Using general policies is advisable if no specific use cases exist.

Start by assessing the following different application requirements:

  • I/O performance and the profile of your workloads on a per-virtual-disk basis
  • Working sets of your workloads
  • Hot-add (feature of vSphere) of additional cache requires re-population of the cache
  • Specific application best practices, such as block size

Defining a policy based on business objectives

vSAN integrates storage parameters into vCenter Server by using vSphere APIs for storage awareness. SPBM further helps in defining VM-centric policies, which are basically constructs that store VM storage provisioning needs based...