Table of Contents
Ch 1 –
Host Configuration
Host Design – Scale-Up or Scale-Out?
Rene Van Den Bedem
VMware ESXi – Async Drivers
Patrick Schulz
Don’t Forget the Logs
Steve Wood
Ch 2 – Cluster and vCenter Design
VMware Resource Pools
Eric Shanks
Doug Baer Tweet
vCenter is Down – Impact on Vmware
Infrastructure
Mariusz Kaczorek
Amit Rathod Tweet
Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
Best Practices
Dee Abson
What Does Load Balancing the Platform
Services Controller Really Give You?
William Lam
Ch 3 – Storage Configuration
The Ultimate IOPS Cheat Sheet
Bas van Kaam
Daemon Behr Tweet
Determine Your vSphere Storage Needs
Michael Wilmsen
Patrick Schulz Tweet
vSphere Replication – Consider These Points Before Using It
Craig Kilborn
Know the Minions
Chethan Kumar
Understanding Block Sizes in a Virtualized Environment
Pete Koehler
Ch 4 – Network and Security Design
vSphere 6.0 – Configure VMware Certificate Authority As A Subordinate CA
Kyle Jenner
Security Design – ISO27001:2013
Larus Hjartarson
NSX Edge vs. Shield Edge
Anthony Spiteri
vSphere and NFV Tuning Consideration
Niels Hagoort
Ch 5 – VM Configuration
Safely Check/Remove Orphaned VMDK Files from ESXi
Myles Gray
Hyper-Threading Gotcha with Virtual
Machine vCPU Sizing
Chris Wahl
Make Sure Time Service for Your vSphere Infrastructure is Robust
Ather Beg
Containers, VMs and unikernels
Rutger Kosters
Ch 6 – Management
vRealize Operations Manager 6.2: What to Consider in a vROps Design
Pietro Piutti
Andrew Mauro Tweet
VCSA vs Windows vCenter - Which One do I Chose, and Why?
Christian Mohn
Ch 7 – Words of Wisdom
One Weird Trick to Virtualize Monster
Vmsconsultants Hate This
Matt Leibowitz
Design Considerations – Words of Wisdom
Amit Rathod
VCSA vs Windows vCenter - Which One do I Chose, and Why?
Christian Mohn
Jacob Pennington Tweet
Datacenter Management is the Killer Use Case for Big Data analytics Frank Denneman
