VMware vSphere 5.0 Clustering Technical Deepdive zooms in on three key components of every VMware based infrastructure and is by no means a “how to” guide. Each section contains basic design principles that can be used for designing, implementing or improving VMware infrastructures. HA admission control policies, DRS resource pools, Datastore Clusters and resource allocation settings. This book will take you in to the trenches of HA, DRS and Storage DRS and will give you the tools to understand and implement e.g. Besides a brand new stretched cluster use case section it includes a fully rewritten Storage DRS section, and new details on both vSphere HA and vSphere DRS. It explains the concepts and mechanisms behind HA, DRS and Storage DRS which will enable you to make well educated decisions. It provides the knowledge and expertise needed to create a cloud infrastructure based on the solid foundation of vSphere HA, vSphere DRS and vSphere Storage DRS. VMware vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive is the follow-up to best seller vSphere 5.0 Clustering Deepdive and zooms in on three key components of every VMware based infrastructure and. Why Intel’s Data Plane Development Kit significantly boosts packet processing performance.Tune VMkernel components to optimize performance for VXLAN network traffic and NFV environments.What queues are and where they live inside the end-to-end storage data paths.Why 3D XPoint is perfect for the vSAN caching tier.How TLB works and why it is bad to disable large pages in virtualized environments.
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