VMware vSphere Resource Management Essentials: Optimum solutions to help you manage your VMware vSphere resources effectively

Content: Cover
 Copyright
 Credits
 About the Author
 About the Reviewers
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 Table of Contents
 Preface
 Chapter 1: Understanding vSphere System Requirements
 ESXi system requirements
 vCenter components
 Understanding vSphere features
 Topology basics
 Understanding vSphere data center
 Familiarizing yourself with a vSphere cluster
 What is a vSphere host?
 Remembering configuration maximums
 Virtual machine maximums (per VM)
 ESXi host maximums (per host)
 Cluster maximums
 Determining resource utilization requirements
 Monitoring common resource statistics
 Sample workload. Collecting statistics on WindowsCollecting statistics on Linux
 Summary
 Chapter 2: Assigning Resources to VMs
 The basics of overcommitment and virtualization
 CPU scheduling and the effect of multiple vCPU VMs
 Memory assignment and management
 Memory overhead
 Transparent page sharing and memory compression
 Ballooning
 The VSWP swap file
 Monitoring memory usage
 Storage considerations and their effects on performance
 What is IOPS?
 RAID
 VMware vSphere Storage APIs --
Array Integration (VAAI)
 Connectivity and throughput
 VMFS
 VM disk provisioning
 Monitoring storage
 Networking. UplinksWhat is a vSwitch?
 Monitoring network connectivity with ESXTOP
 Summary
 Chapter 3: Advanced Resource Management Features
 Understanding CPU power management
 Reservations, limits, and shares
 Resource limits
 Resource shares
 Resource pools
 vApps
 vMotion
 Enhanced vMotion Capability (EVC)
 How to enable EVC
 DRS
 DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules
 High Availability
 Admission control
 App HA
 Fault Tolerance
 Hot Add
 Storage vMotion, Storage DRS, and Datastore clusters
 Storage vMotion
 Datastore clusters
 Storage DRS
 vSphere Distributed Switches
 New in vSphere 5.5. VSphere Flash Read CacheVSAN
 Summary
 Chapter 4: Automation and Monitoring Options
 Automation solutions for vSphere
 Cloning VMs
 VM templates
 Update Manager
 Host profiles
 Auto deploy
 PowerCLI basics
 vCenter Orchestrator basics
 Automating resource management
 Creating a new VM
 Creating a new VM with PowerCLI
 Creating a new VM with vCO
 Community automation resources
 Available monitoring options
 Alarms
 Configuring an alarm
 vCenter Operations Manager
 Summary
 Index.