Book description
Master SDDC Operations with proven best practices
About This Book
- Understand the drawbacks of the traditional paradigm and management that make operations difficult in SDDC
- Master performance and capacity management in Software-Defined Data Center
- Operationalize performance and capacity monitoring with proven dashboards
Who This Book Is For
This book is primarily for any system administrator or cloud infrastructure specialist who is interested in performance management and capacity management using VMware technologies. This book will also help IT professionals whose area of responsibility is not VMware, but who work with the VMware team. You can be Windows, Linux, Storage, or Network team; or application architects. Note that prior exposure to the VMware platform of data-center and cloud-based solutions is expected.
What You Will Learn
- Simplify the task of performance and capacity management
- Master the counters in vCenter and vRealize Operations and understand their dependency on one another
- Educate your peers and management on SDDC Operations
- Complete your SDDC monitoring to include non-VMware components
- Perform SDDC performance troubleshooting
- Explore real-life examples of how super metric and advanced dashboards
- Introduce and implement a Performance SLA
- Accomplish your Capacity Management by taking into service tiering and performance SLA
In Detail
Performance management and capacity management are the two top-most issues faced by enterprise IT when doing virtualization. Until the first edition of the book, there was no in-depth coverage on the topic to tackle the issues systematically. The second edition expands the first edition, with added information and reorganizing the book into three logical parts.
The first part provides the technical foundation of SDDC Management. It explains the difference between a software-defined data center and a classic physical data center, and how it impacts both architecture and operations. From this strategic view, it zooms into the most common challenges - performance management and capacity management. It introduces a new concept called Performance SLA and also a new way of doing capacity management.
The next part provides the actual solution that you can implement in your environment. It puts the theories together and provides real-life examples created together with customers. It provides the reasons behind each dashboard, so that you get the understanding on why it is required and what problem it solves.
The last part acts as a reference section. It provides a complete reference to vSphere and vRealize Operations counters, explaining their dependencies and providing practical guidance on the values you should expect in a healthy environment.
Style and approach
This book covers the complex topic of managing performance and capacity in an easy-to-follow style. It relates real-world scenarios to topics in order to help you implement the book's teachings on the go.
Table of contents
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VMware Performance and Capacity Management Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- VMware Performance and Capacity Management Second Edition
- Credits
- Foreword
- Foreword
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- Part 1
- 1. VM – It Is Not What You Think!
- 2. Software-Defined Data Centers
- 3. SDDC Management
- 4. Performance Monitoring
- 5. Capacity Monitoring
- Part 2
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6. Performance-Monitoring Dashboards
- What is the overall IaaS performance?
- Are you serving my VM well?
- Is vMotion causing performance hit?
- Is any VM abusing the shared IaaS?
- Summary
- 7. Capacity-Monitoring Dashboards
- 8. Specific-Purpose Dashboards
- 9. Infrastructure Monitoring Using Blue Medora
- 10. Application Monitoring Using Blue Medora
- Part 3
- 11. SDDC Key Counters
- 12. CPU Counters
- 13. Memory Counters
- 14. Storage Counters
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15. Network Counters
- Network counters at the Guest OS level
- Network counters at the VM level
- Network counters at the ESXi level
- Network counters at the cluster level
- Network counters at the Distributed Switch level
- Network counters at the distributed port group level
- Network counters at higher levels
- Network counters in NSX
- Network counters for physical switches
- Summary
- Index
Product information
- Title: VMware Performance and Capacity Management - Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2016
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781785880315
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