Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Save more on your purchases now! discount-offer-chevron-icon
Savings automatically calculated. No voucher code required.
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
vSphere High Performance Cookbook

You're reading from   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.

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782170006
Length 240 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Prasenjit Sarkar Prasenjit Sarkar
Author Profile Icon Prasenjit Sarkar
Prasenjit Sarkar
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

vSphere High Performance Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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 and vCenter Database for Best Performance 8. Virtual Machine and Application Performance Design Index

vSphere Fault Tolerance design and its impact


It all depends on the workloads whether you want to configure Fault Tolerance (FT) protected Virtual Machines. One of the major reasons to choose FT is, if you require zero or near zero downtime for a critical workload. If you perform a current state analysis of an existing infrastructure and found some critical workloads already protected in physical infrastructure, it is most likely that these workloads require protection in a VMware virtual infrastructure as well. FT is simple to configure and can offer a wide range of workloads to be protected. However, FT works for uniprocessor VMs, which is a deal killer for most VMs that would otherwise get FT.

However, there are number of limitations associated with the configuration of FT. Many fundamental virtualization benefits are lost, including the use of virtual machine snapshots and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion.

There are number of prerequisites and configurations on the infrastructure side which...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime