Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Performance Design -- Starting Simple -- Determine Parameters -- Architect for the Application -- Assess Physical Performance -- Start with Defaults -- Establishing a Baseline -- Baseline CPU Infrastructure -- Memory -- Network -- Storage -- Architecting for the Application -- Considering Licensing Requirements -- Integrating Virtual Machines -- Virtual Machine Scalability -- vMotion -- Distributed Resource Scheduler -- High Availability -- Understanding Design Considerations -- Choosing a Server -- Summary -- Chapter 2 Building Your Toolbox -- Capacity Planning Tools -- VMware Capacity Planner -- Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit -- Using Capacity Planning Tools -- Ongoing Capacity Management -- Performance Analysis Tools -- esxtop -- vscsiStats -- Performance Benchmarking Tools -- VMmark -- vBenchmark -- Performance Simulation Tools -- CPU/Memory -- Storage -- Network -- Summary -- Chapter 3 The Test Lab -- Why Build a Test Lab? -- Test Changes before Applying in Production -- Test New Applications and Patches -- Re-Create Production Problems -- Simulate Performance Problems for Troubleshooting -- Benchmark New Hardware -- Learn about Virtualization -- Strategies for a Successful Test Lab -- Build a Realistic Environment -- Building the Lab -- Use Proper Tools for Measurement -- How to Build Your Lab -- Test Objective -- Lab Summary -- Provisioning the Lab -- Defining the Workload and Configuration of IOmeter -- Lab Postmortem -- Summary -- Chapter 4 CPU -- Getting to Know the Basics of CPU Virtualization -- Understanding CPU Protected Mode in the x86 Architecture -- Defining the Types of CPU Virtualization -- Distinguishing between Physical CPUs and Virtual CPUs -- Understanding vCPU States -- Introducing the ESXi CPU Scheduler.

Understanding the Proportional Share-Based Algorithm -- Understanding CPU Co-Scheduling -- The CPU Scheduler Cell -- Understanding CPU Topology-Aware Load Balancing -- Multicore-Aware Load Balancing -- Sizing CPU for Virtual Machines -- Considerations for vSMP -- Considerations for NUMA and vNUMA -- Hot Plug of CPU Resources -- Understanding CPU Resource Management -- Understanding CPU Reservations -- Understanding CPU Limits -- Configuring CPU Reservations and Limits -- Understanding Resource Pools -- Troubleshooting CPU Performance Problems -- Using esxtop to Diagnose CPU Performance Issues -- High CPU Ready Time -- High ESXi Host CPU Utilization -- High Guest CPU Utilization -- Summary -- Chapter 5 Memory -- Getting to Know ESXi Memory Management -- Memory Virtualization -- Memory Management in ESXi -- Hardware-Assisted MMU Virtualization -- Reclaiming Memory from VMs -- Transparent Page Sharing -- Ballooning -- Memory Compression -- Hypervisor Swapping -- Host SSD Cache Swapping -- Host Memory Reclamation -- Idle Page Reclamation -- Managing Virtual Machine Memory Allocation -- Working Set Size -- Proportional Share-Based Algorithm -- Sizing Memory for Virtual Machines -- Memory Overhead -- Memory Overcommitment -- Troubleshooting Memory Performance Problems -- Using esxtop to Diagnose Memory Performance Issues -- High VM Consumed Memory -- High Memory Ballooning -- Hypervisor Swapping -- Guest Operating System Swapping -- Summary -- Chapter 6 Network -- Creating a Network Design -- Designing Your Physical Network -- Choosing a Virtual Switch -- Considering the Standard vSwitch -- Considering the vSphere Distributed Switch -- Considering the Cisco Nexus 1000V dvSwitch -- Which Virtual Switch Do I Choose? -- Selecting Host Hardware -- Host Server Type -- Network Adapters -- Designing for Performance.

ESXi Host-Level Performance -- Virtual Machine Performance -- Troubleshooting Networking Issues -- Slow Virtual Machine Networking Performance -- Summary -- Chapter 7 Storage -- Choosing Your Storage Platform -- Storage Area Networks -- Network File System -- Virtual SAN -- Designing Physical Storage -- Determine Your Requirements -- RAID Levels -- Flash Infrastructure Layer -- Networking for IP Storage -- Designing vSphere Storage -- Why Is Storage So Important? -- VAAI -- Storage I/O Control -- Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler -- Profile-Driven Storage -- Datastore Size -- vFlash Read Cache -- Virtual SAN -- Jumbo Frames for IP Storage -- Optimizing Virtual Machine Performance -- Raw Device Mapping vs. VMDK Files -- Virtual Disk Type -- Virtual SCSI Adapter -- Guest OS Disk Alignment -- Troubleshooting Storage Performance Issues -- Storage Latency -- Misconfigured Storage for Your Applications -- Storage Queues -- End-to-End Networking -- Summary -- Index.