Chapter 7. vSphere Compute Design
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Calculating CPU resource requirements
- Calculating memory resource requirements
- Transparent Page Sharing
- Scaling up or scaling out
- Determining the vCPU-to-core ratio
- Clustering compute resources
- Reserving HA resources to support failover
- Using Distributed Resource Scheduling to balance cluster resources
- Ensuring cluster vMotion compatibility
- Using resource pools
- Providing fault tolerance protection
- Leveraging host flash
