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vSphere High Performance Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from   vSphere High Performance Cookbook - Second Edition Recipes to tune your vSphere for maximum performance

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786464620
Length 338 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Christopher Kusek Christopher Kusek
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Prasenjit Sarkar Prasenjit Sarkar
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Kevin Elder Kevin Elder
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. CPU Performance Design 2. Memory Performance Design FREE CHAPTER 3. Networking Performance Design 4. DRS, SDRS, and Resource Control Design 5. vSphere Cluster Design 6. Storage Performance Design 7. Designing vCenter on Windows for Best Performance 8. Designing VCSA for Best Performance 9. Virtual Machine and Virtual Environment Performance Design 10. Performance Tools

HCIBench

HCIBench is a tool from VMware that is designed to test the performance of vSAN datastores, but it can also be used to test the performance of non-vSAN datastores. You can use this tool to benchmark your existing storage performance or use it when evaluating a new storage platform.
There are two components to HCIBench: the controller VM and the Vdbench guest VM(s). The controller VM is an appliance that deploys the guest VMs, runs the tests, and collects the results. The Vdbench guests provide the I/O traffic to the storage.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need at least one ESXi Server, an instance of installed vCenter Server, and vSphere Web Client. You will also need one IP address for the controller...

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