Friday, June 1, 2012

Key Links for VMware Best Practices

Here are some good links to VMware best practices.


Four key documents for virtualizing Oracle
DBA Best Practices



High Availability Guide
A high level whitepaper on virtualizing Business Critical Apps on VMware
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/solutions/VMware-Virtualizing-Business-Critical-Apps-on-VMware_en-wp.pdf

Deployment Guide, Reference Architecture, Customer case studies and white papers


VMware Network I/O Control: Architecture, Performance and Best Practices http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW_Netioc_BestPractices.pdf


Esxtop and vscsiStats
http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-5490
http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-10095

Memory Management vSphere 5
http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10206

Resource Mgmt vSphere 5 
www.vmware.com/files/pdf/mem_mgmt_perf_vsphere5.pdf
  
Achieving a Million IOPS in a single VM with vSphere5
www.vmware.com/files/pdf/1M-iops-perf-vsphere5.pdf

VMXNET3 was designed with improving performance in mind. See, VMware KB 1001805: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/documentLinkInt.do?micrositeID=null&externalID=1001805


Performance Evaluation of VMXNET3 Virtual Network Device can be found at: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsp_4_vmxnet3_perf.pdf


Network I/O Latency in vSphere5http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10256

Preferred BIOS settings (always double check with hardware vendor, http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere4.1.pdf


 Oracle Database on vSphere Deployment Tips - http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/Oracle_Databases_on_vSphere_Deployment_Tips.pdf


SCSI Queue Depth - Controlling LUN queue depth throttling in VMware ESX/ESXi
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1008113


 Monitor disk latency at three distinct layers of the device or HBA, the kernel or ESX hypervisor and the guest or virtual machine. 
http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9279


PVSCSI Storage Performance 
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsp_4_pvscsi_perf.pdf)


Snapshot limitations and best practices to minimize problems http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1025279

Jumbo frames VMXNET3 
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1015556


1Gb shortcomings: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW_Netioc_BestPractices.pdf.

The vSphere 4 CPU scheduler
www.vmware.com/files/pdf/perf-vsphere-cpu_scheduler.pdf

   
Some excellent storage links from Chris Sakac (EMC) and Vaughn Stewart (NetApp)
VNX and vSphere Techbook
http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/technical-documentation/h8229-vnx-vmware-tb.pdf

VMAX and vSphere Techbook
http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/solution-overview/h2529-vmware-esx-svr-w-symmetrix-wp-ldv.pdf

Isilon and vSphere Best Practices Guide
http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h10522-bpg-isilon-and-vmware-vsphere5.pdf
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-vSphere41-SIOC.pdf
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-vSphere41-SIOC.pdf
http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2010/08/drs-for-storage.html
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/09/29/storage-io-fairness/















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