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VMware vCenter Cookbook

You're reading from VMware vCenter Cookbook Over 65 hands-on recipes to help you efficiently manage your vSphere environment with VMware vCenter

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783553976

Length 302 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Kostantin Kuminsky

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. vCenter Basic Tasks and Features FREE CHAPTER

2. Increasing Environment Availability

3. Increasing Environment Scalability

4. Improving Environment Efficiency

5. Optimizing Resource Usage

6. Basic Administrative Tasks

7. Improving Environment Manageability

Index

Meeting higher I/O needs with the VMware Paravirtual controller

Virtual machine hardware Version 7 introduced a new VMware Paravirtual storage adapter (PVSCSI). It is considered a high-performance storage adapter recommended for VMs with high I/O usage. PVSCSI can handle high I/O with higher storage throughput while keeping CPU utilization low.

Note

In ESXi 4, the LSI Logic adapter performs better than PVSCSI for VMs doing less than 2,000 IOPS.

More details are available in the VMware KB 1017652 article at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1017652.

The following operating systems support PVSCSI:

Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows 8
Red Hat Linux 5

These operating systems don't include drivers for PVSCSI by default and the drivers have to be loaded before the virtual disk is recognized during OS installation.

How to do it...

The best option is to choose the Paravirtual SCSI controller during VM creation. New virtual drives using PVSCSI...

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Authors (1)

Kostantin Kuminsky

Kostantin Kuminsky

Konstantin Kuminsky is a VMware-, Microsoft-, and Cisco-certified IT professional with over 10 years of experience in different areas of the IT industry, including virtualization, networking, and security. His experience includes the support of Tier 3 Data Centre, the management of private Clouds, the administration of second- and third-level help desk and on-call support, as well as the deployment and support of various redundant systems and environments with high security requirements. Konstantin is also the author of Implementing vCenter Server, published by Packt Publishing, which covers general aspects of vCenter implementation and usage.

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