LEADER 05610nam 2200697 450 001 9910464793403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78217-627-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000117814 035 $a(EBL)1688647 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001294294 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11758495 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001294294 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11317115 035 $a(PQKB)11492637 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1688647 035 $a(CaSebORM)9781782176268 035 $a(PPN)228032067 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1688647 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10875453 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL613584 035 $a(OCoLC)880826868 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000117814 100 $a20140603h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$avSphere design best practices $eapply industry-accepted best practices to design reliable high-performance datacenters for your business needs /$fBrian Bolander, Christopher Kusek ; cover image by Abhishek Dhir 205 $a1st edition 210 1$aBirmingham, England :$cPackt Publishing Ltd,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (126 p.) 225 1 $aProfessional expertise distilled 300 $aIncludes index. 300 $a"Professional experience distilled." 311 $a1-78217-626-8 327 $aCover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Virtual Data Center Design; Virtual Data Center design principles; Best practices; Designing Virtual Data Center; VMware vCenter components; Choosing a platform for your vCenter server; Using the vCenter server appliance; Sizing your vCenter server; Choosing your vCenter database; vSphere clustering - HA and DRS; Host considerations; Network considerations; Storage considerations; Cluster considerations; Admission control; Summary; Chapter 2: Hypervisor Design 327 $aESXi hardware designCPU considerations; Memory and NUMA considerations; Virtual NUMA (vNUMA) considerations; Considerations for Java virtual machines (JVMs); Network interface card considerations; Hypervisor storage components; Stateless host design; Scale-Up and Scale-Out designs; Summary; Chapter 3: Storage Design; Storage protocols; Fibre Channel (FC); iSCSI; Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE); NFS; Virtual machine filesystems; VMFS; RDM; NFS; Designing storage; Local storage considerations; Datastore and cluster design; VMware storage features; Configurable storage features; SIOC 327 $aConfiguring the multipathing path selection policyProvisioning; Summary; Chapter 4: Network Design; Introducing vSphere switching; vNetwork Standard Switches (vSS); vNetwork Distributed Switches (vDS); Common networking design considerations; Best practices to implement in your design; Implementing Network I/O Control (NIOC); Providing network redundancy, resiliency, and throughput; Physical switches and adapters; ESXi host hardware; Considerations when using IP storage; Separating your traffic; Validating your storage configurations; Summary; Chapter 5: Virtual Machine Design 327 $aVirtual machine resources and templatesBest practices for virtual machines and templates; Over-allocation can be a painful proposition; Physical to virtual migrations; Multi-vCPU considerations; Shares, limits, and reservations; Configuring shares; Limits; Reservations; Causes of virtual machine performance problems; CPU performance issues; Memory performance issues; Storage performance issues; Network performance issues; Summary; Chapter 6: Business Critical Applications; Special considerations for tier 1 applications; Starting simple; Workload profiles; Designing for Microsoft Exchange 327 $aConsidering Microsoft SQL serverHA, DRS, and vMotion considerations; Resource considerations; Ensuring high availability and application resiliency; Enabling CPU Hot Add in vSphere client; The vCenter operations manager dashboard; Other business critical application resources; Summary; Chapter 7: Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity; The benefits of disaster avoidance; Designing backup strategies; Designing for RPO and RTO requirements; Choosing replication technologies; VMware vSphere Replication; Storage-based replication; Mixing replication solutions 327 $aPlanning and testing the DR strategy 330 $aAn easy-to-follow guide full of hands-on examples of real-world design best practices. 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