vSphere High Performance Cookbook: A cookbook is the ideal way to learn a tool as complex as vSphere. Through experiencing the real-world recipes in this tutorial you'll gain deep insight into vSphere's unique attributes and reach a high level of proficiency.

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Troubleshoot real-world vSphere performance issues and identify their root causes
Design and configure CPU, memory, networking, and storage for better and more reliable performance
Comprehensive coverage of performance issues and solutions including vCenter Server design and virtual machine and application tuning

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VMware vSphere is the key virtualization technology in today's market. vSphere is a complex tool and incorrect design and deployment can create performance-related problems. vSphere High Performance Cookbook is focused on solving those problems as well as providing best practices and performance-enhancing techniques. vSphere High Performance Cookbook offers a comprehensive understanding of the different components of vSphere and the interaction of these components with the physical layer which includes the CPU, memory, network, and storage. If you want to improve or troubleshoot vSphere performance then this book is for you! vSphere High Performance Cookbook will teach you how to tune and grow a VMware vSphere 5 infrastructure. This book focuses on tuning, optimizing, and scaling the infrastructure using the vSphere Client graphical user interface. This book will enable the reader with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to build and run a high-performing VMware vSphere virtual infrastructure. You will learn how to configure and manage ESXi CPU, memory, networking, and storage for sophisticated, enterprise-scale environments. You will also learn how to manage changes to the vSphere environment and optimize the performance of all vSphere components. This book also focuses on high value and often overlooked performance-related topics such as NUMA Aware CPU Scheduler, VMM Scheduler, Core Sharing, the Virtual Memory Reclamation technique, Checksum offloading, VM DirectPath I/O, queuing on storage array, command queuing, vCenter Server design, and virtual machine and application tuning. By the end of this book you will be able to identify, diagnose, and troubleshoot operational faults and critical performance issues in vSphere.

Who is this book for?

The book is primarily written for technical professionals with system administration skills and some VMware experience who wish to learn about advanced optimization and the configuration features and functions for vSphere 5.1.

What you will learn

Understand VMM Scheduler, Cache aware CPU Scheduler, NUMA Aware CPU Scheduler, and so on during CPU Performance Design
Learn about the virtual memory reclamation technique, monitoring host ballooning, and swapping activity
Get to grips with different vSwitch load balancing, considerations for checksum offloading, VMDirectPath I/O, and so on
Understand DRS algorithms, resource pool guidelines, SIOC threshold consideration, SDRS and its affinity/anti-affinity rules in DRS, SDRS, and resource control design
Scale up and scale out cluster design for performance, FT and its caveats, application monitoring, DPM, host affinity/anti-affinity rules
Design your vSphere storage based on various workloads and FC storage for best performance
Choose the right platform while designing your vCenter Server, redundant vCenter design, vCenter SSO and its deployment

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J. Walker Dec 23, 2013

I am working on a environment that is under extremely high stress in terms of CPU, network, memory, and IO performance. We moved it from all physical machines to VMs recently. Initially, the VMs could not handle the stress. The suggestions in this book, especially for IO, CPU, and Memory improved the performance enough to allow the VMs to handle the stress adequately.

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Lee Marzke Oct 31, 2013

Packt provided me a copy of this new book to review on my blog site [...] In summary the book provides a lot of good information I've not seen elsewhere on setting up Performance graphs and improving memory and network performance. To read the entire review see: [...]

SLJ Johnson Oct 24, 2014

Personally I really enjoy cookbooks as they're condensed specific books which focus on the stuff you're after. Less platitudinal vendor nonsense and just the facts on how to make stuff a bit better than OOTB.

Larry Karnis Aug 22, 2013

Had a quick look through the book and am impressed. The scope and depth of detail in the book is great. Gets right to the point, explains the issue and tells you what to do to make things better/faster/etc. Explains trade offs (when choices available) as well as things to watch out for. Lots of actionable suggestions.You could probably find most/all of the same information by finding/reading VMware blogs. This book saves a lot of time (and filters out a lot of blog 'noise') so it is worth the money.FYI - this is not a book for beginners. You should be a solid VMware administrator (VCP or equivalent skills/experience).

VirtuallyMikeB Oct 28, 2013

Good day,Packt Publishing was gracious enough to give me a free e-copy of the book to review. I reviewed it on my blog at VirtuallyMikeBrown dot com. I've included the full text of my review below.-------------------------------------------I was graciously given the opportunity to read and review vSphere High Performance Cookbook, written by Prasenjit Sarkar (@stretchcloud) and published by Packt Publishing, whose subtitle states it has Over 60 recipes to help you improve vSphere performance and solve problems before they arise. Gulping down its chapters was easy after seeing that Prasenjit's recipes included fixes for such common, and some not so common, misconfigurations or lack thereof.The book states its audience includes technical professionals with vSphere administration experience that want to use advanced options and configurations to optimize their environments. The vSphere platform used in the book is 5.1. As I was reading, I kept wanting to give the book to the VMware admins I've come across to help them improve their deployments because I know how much they could use the recipes inside. In my varied VMware experiences, I've come across many of the topics presented in the book. I know first-hand how useful they can be and how often they go unnoticed or are left unconfigured.The chapter list includes the following topics:CPU Performance DesignMemory Performance DesignNetworking Performance DesignDRS, SDRS, and Resource Control DesignvSphere Cluster DesignStorage Performance DesignDesigning vCenter and vCenter Database for Best PerformanceVirtual Machine and Application Performance DesignThese topics are foundational in building out a vSphere environment for the best performance. I'm reminded of a live-blog post by Scott Lowe (@scott_lowe) during VMworld 2010 timeframe, if I remember right, where then-VMware CEO Paul Maritz stated there were about 800,000 VMware Administrators and about 60,000 of them were VCPs. I know these numbers have changed since then, but what this says to me is that the large majority of IT folks with their hands in a vSphere infrastructure have not taken the formal VCP training which happens to cover a lot of the topics in this book. In my experience, most VMware administrators are not virtualization folks; they're traditional Microsoft server folks that have been forced to work in a virtualized environment because that's how the technology train has rolled. They're not dumb, of course, but they sure could use some pointers in how to better manage and optimize a vSphere infrastructure. This book focuses on optimization and does a fine job.Common topics such as understanding %RDY, memory reclamation, swapping, vSwitch load balancing, multi-NIC vMotion, resource pool guidelines, affinity/anti-affinity rules, scale up vs. scale out, considerations for iSCSI and FC storage, which platforms to choose for a vCenter Server, SSO, and NUMA considerations are just a few of those covered in this cookbook. There are also more advanced topics covered I wasn't even aware of, such as modifying CPU scheduler options for processor topology and cache awareness.As we study and gain experience with vSphere, we hear about these topics in different capacities, but this book brings the topics together to focus on how to improve performance. Each topic includes an introduction to the concept followed by a section on what you need in a test lab to follow the recipe in the cookbook style. Through screenshots, graphs and tables, you're then shown how to perform the task. And finally, how the concept works is explained, perhaps with additional material to round out the topic.In addition, attention grabbing performance-enhancing topics includeSpotting CPU over commitmentWhat is most important to monitor in CPU performanceKey memory performance metrics to monitorIdentifying when memory is the problemMemory performance best practicesImproving network performance using network I/O controlUsing resource pool guidelinesDesigning a highly available and high-performance iSCSI SANDesigning a highly available and high-performance FC SANIf you're like me, you know a VMware admin or two that could benefit from reading this book. Thanks again to Packt Publishing for the opportunity to review this book. A free, digital copy was provided to me for doing so.

vSphere High Performance Cookbook: A cookbook is the ideal way to learn a tool as complex as vSphere. Through experiencing the real-world recipes in this tutorial you'll gain deep insight into vSphere's unique attributes and reach a high level of proficiency.

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