Chapter 4. Improving Environment Efficiency
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Meeting higher I/O needs with the VMware Paravirtual controller
- Improving network performance with the VMXNET 3 network adapter
- Using new virtual hardware
- Controlling storage space used by virtual disks
- Managing space used by snapshots
- Improving host productivity with Flash Read Cache
- Speeding up VMs with Flash Read Cache
- Optimizing host power consumption
- Considering NUMA when configuring RAM
- vCPU versus pCPU and time slots