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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

You're reading from   The Complete VMware vSphere Guide Design a virtualized data center with VMware vSphere 6.7

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Product type Course
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838985752
Length 768 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paolo Valsecchi Paolo Valsecchi
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Mike Brown Mike Brown
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Virtual Data Center FREE CHAPTER 2. The Discovery Process 3. The Design Factors 4. vSphere Management Design 5. vSphere Storage Design 6. vSphere Network Design 7. vSphere Compute Design 8. vSphere Physical Design 9. Virtual Machine Design 10. Deployment Workflow and Component Installation 11. Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.7 12. Life Cycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading 13. VM Deployment and Management 14. VM Resource Management 15. Availability and Disaster Recovery 16. Securing and Protecting Your Environment 17. Analyzing and Optimizing Your Environment 18. Troubleshooting Your Environment 19. Building Your Own VMware vSphere Lab 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

VM Resource Management

Maintaining a resource-optimal vSphere infrastructure is a critical day-to-day operation and should be performed with a strict focus on delivering adequate resources to the virtual machines (VMs) at any given time.

The resources of your vSphere infrastructure are limited, even though vSphere provides many overcommitment techniques so that you can assign more resources than you physically have, but you should try to avoid contention scenarios at all costs because such contention can significantly affect your applications' and workloads' performance.

One of the fundamental techniques that you can use to provide the best possible performance to your VMs is resources, limits, and shares, which you can use to fine-tune resource allocation to different vSphere objects, such as VMs, vApps, and resource pools.

Using vMotion, you can freely move your workloads...

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