VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook : Over 70 Recipes to Design a Virtual Datacenter for Performance, Availability, Manageability, and Recoverability with VMware vSphere 5.x / Hersey Cartwright
Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgments; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1:The Virtual Datacenter; Introduction; Becoming a virtual datacenter architect; Using a holistic approach to datacenter design; Passing the VMware VCAP-DCD exam; Chapter 2:The Discovery Process; Introduction; Identifying the design factors; Identifying stakeholders; Conducting stakeholder interviews; VMware Capacity Planner; Using Windows Performance Monitor; Identifying dependencies; Chapter 3:The Design Factors; Introduction
Identifying design requirementsIdentifying design constraints; Making design assumptions; Identifying design risks; Creating the conceptual design; Chapter 4:The vSphere Management Design; Introduction; Identifying vCenter components and dependencies; Selecting a vCenter deployment option; Determining the vCenter system requirements; Selecting a database for vCenter deployment; Determining database interoperability; Choosing a vCenter Single Sign-On deployment mode; Designing for management availability; Backing up the vCenter Server components
Using vCenter Server Heartbeat to provide vCenter availabilitySecuring the management components; Designing a separate management cluster; Chapter 5:The vSphere Storage Design; Introduction; Identifying RAID levels; Calculating storage capacity requirements; Determining storage performance requirements; Calculating storage throughput; Storage connectivity options; Storage path selection plugins; Sizing datastores; Chapter 6:The vSphere Network Design; Introduction; Determining network bandwidth requirements; Standard or distributed virtual switches; Providing network availability
Virtual switch securityNetwork resource management; Using private VLANs; IP storage network design considerations; vMotion network design considerations; Chapter 7:The vSphere Compute Design; Introduction; Calculating CPU resource requirements; Calculating memory resource requirements; Scaling up or scaling out; Determining the vCPU-to-core ratio; Clustering compute resources; Reserving HA resources to support failover; Using distributed resource scheduling to balance cluster resources; Ensuring cluster vMotion compatibility; Chapter 8:The vSphere Physical Design; Introduction
Using the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)Understanding the physical storage design; Understanding the physical network design; Creating the physical compute design; Creating a custom ESXi image; Best practices for ESXi host BIOS settings; Chapter 9:The Virtual Machine Design; Introduction; Right-sizing virtual machines; Enabling CPU Hot Add and Memory Hot Plug; Creating virtual machine templates; Using vApps to organize virtualized applications; Using VM affinity and anti-affinity rules; Converting physical servers with vCenter Converter Standalone
Summary
A practical guide packed with step-by-step recipes to design a virtual datacenter using VMware 5.xThis book is a guide for anyone interested in designing virtualized datacenters using VMware vSphere 5.x and the supporting components. Current administrators of VMware vSphere environments will find this book useful when interested in becoming a vSphere Architect or are interested in learning more about the virtual datacenter design process. Knowledge of vSphere installation, configuration, and administration is a prerequisite
