VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCAT): Technical and Operational Guidance for Cloud Success (VMware Press Technology)

Computers & Technology

VMware Press

Networking & Cloud Computing

VMware® Horizon Suite The authoritative guide to delivering end-user services with VMwarE View and VMware Horizon Suite Today, IT professionals must manage stateless, mobile, streamed workspaces delivered across devices ranging from traditional PCs to tablets and smartphones. Using VMware View and VMware Horizon Suite, they can do so–providing flexible end-user services that support any business requirement cost effectively. Now there’s a complete guide to planning, configuring, implementing, and integrating VMware Horizon Suite technologies and using them to deliver high-value end-user services in enterprise, managed, and cloud provider environments. This book’s deep up-to-date technical content addresses considerations ranging from architecture, deployment, and operations to user experience and support. It offers detailed guidance on integration with VMware View and key third-party technologies. Throughout, it fully reflects the newest VMware View releases, including VMware Horizon Mirage. Relevant, clear, and usable, VMware Horizon Suite contains step-by-step configuration examples, sample scenarios helping you choose the right technologies for your users’ needs, and a complete end-user computing design checklist. Coverage includes • Understanding the new end-user service model and how VMware View and VMware Horizon address it • Mastering VMware View 6 and VMware Workspace 1.8 architectures • Leveraging proven installation and implementation techniques • Efficiently operating Connection, Security, and Transfer servers • Managing agents, clients, portals, composers, and personas • Integrating VMware View and Workspace • Implementing operational best practices, such as desktop pools, user data management, and SaaS • Using VMware Mirage to manage desktop images more intelligently and provide a wider spectrum of end-user services • Delivering multimedia within a View desktop environment • Integrating Microsoft Lync with VMware View • Monitoring VMware View and optimizing its performance

VMware Horizon Suite: Building End-User Services (VMware Press Technology)

Asselin, Stephane

Virtualizing and Tuning Large-Scale Java Platforms Technical best practices and real-world tips for optimizing enterprise Java applications on VMware vSphere® Enterprises no longer ask, “Can Java be virtualized”? Today, they ask, “Just how large can we scale virtualized Java application platforms, and just how efficiently can we tune them?” Now, the leading expert on Java virtualization answers these questions, offering detailed technical information you can apply in any production or QA/test environment. Emad Benjamin has spent nine years virtualizing VMware’s own enterprise Java applications and working with nearly 300 leading VMware customers on projects of all types and sizes—from 100 JVMs to 10,000+, with heaps from 1GB to 360GB, and including massive big-data applications built on clustered JVMs. Reflecting all this experience, he shows you how to successfully size and tune any Java workload. This reference and performance “cookbook” identifies high-value optimization opportunities that apply to physical environments, virtual environments, or both. You learn how to rationalize and scale existing Java infrastructure, modernize architecture for new applications, and systematically benchmark and improve every aspect of virtualized Java performance. Throughout, Benjamin offers real performance studies, specific advice, and “from-the-trenches” insights into monitoring and troubleshooting. Coverage includes --Performance issues associated with large-scale Java platforms, including consolidation, elasticity, and flexibility --Technical considerations arising from theoretical and practical limits of Java platforms --Building horizontal in-memory databases with VMware vFabric SQLFire to improve scalability and response times --Tuning large-scale Java using throughput/parallel GC and Concurrent Mark and Sweep (CMS) techniques --Designing and sizing a new virtualized Java environment --Designing and sizing new large-scale Java platforms when migrating from physical to virtualized deployments --Designing and sizing large-scale Java platforms for latency-sensitive in-memory databases --Real-world performance studies: SQLFire vs. RDBMS, Spring-based Java web apps, vFabric SpringTrader, application tiers, data tiers, and more --Performance differences between ESXi3, 4.1, and 5 --Best-practice considerations for each type of workload: architecture, performance, design, sizing, and high availability --Identifying bottlenecks in the load balancer, web server, Java application server, or DB Server tiers --Advanced vSphere Java performance troubleshooting with esxtop --Performance FAQs: answers to specific questions enterprise customers have asked

Virtualizing and Tuning Large Scale Java Platforms (VMware Press Technology)

Benjamin, Emad

Virtualizing and Tuning Large Scale Java Platforms: Virt Tuni Larg Scal Java P (VMware Press Technology)

Emad Benjamin

The start-to-finish guide to virtualizing business-critical Oracle Software and Databases on VMware vSphere Virtualizing large-scale Oracle software and databases on vSphere can deliver powerful scalability, availability, and performance benefits. Recognizing this opportunity, thousands of organizations are moving to virtualize Oracle. However, reliable best practices have been difficult to find, and database and virtualization professionals often bring incompatible perspectives to the challenge. Virtualizing Oracle® Databases on vSphere® is the first authoritative, comprehensive, and best-practice guide to running Oracle on VMware platforms. Reflecting a deep understanding of both Oracle and vSphere, this guide is supported by extensive in-the-field experience with the full spectrum of database applications and environments. Both a detailed reference and a practical cookbook, it combines theory and practice, and offers up-to-date insights for the entire lifecycle, supported by case studies. Kannan Mani and Don Sullivan fully address architecture, performance, design, sizing, and high availability. Focusing on current versions of Oracle and vSphere, they highlight the differences between ESX/ESXi 4.x and 5.x wherever relevant. To deliver even more value, they provide extensive online resources, including easy-to-adapt scripts and expert how-to videos. Coverage includes: <ul>
<li> Understanding the DBA’s expanded role in virtualized environments, and the emergence of the vDBA, vRACDBA, and Cloud DBA </li> <li> Identifying your best opportunities to drive value from virtualizing Oracle </li> <li> Anticipating challenges associated with virtualizing Oracle-based Business Critical Applications on vSphere </li> <li> Using VMware to overcome ongoing database deployment and management problems </li> <li> Protecting your virtualized database environment with vSphere’s high-availability capabilities </li> <li> Designing databases to achieve scalability on demand, maximize availability, consolidate servers, and improve compliance </li> <li> Implementing best practices for memory, storage, and database layout </li> <li> Demystifying the impact of virtualization on Oracle support and licensing </li> <li> Using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to accelerate disaster recovery by seamlessly integrating VM and storage failover </li> <li> Streamlining provisioning and taking advantage of opportunities to automate </li> </ul>

Virtualizing Oracle Databases on vSphere

Mani, Kannan

Now fully updated: The authoritative, comprehensive guide to vSphere 6 storage implementation and management Effective VMware virtualization storage planning and management has become crucial—but it can be extremely complex. Now, VMware’s leading storage expert thoroughly demystifies the “black box” of vSphere 6 storage and provides illustrated, step-by-step procedures for performing every key task associated with it. Mostafa Khalil presents techniques based on years of personal experience helping customers troubleshoot storage in their vSphere production environments. Drawing on more experience than anyone else in the field, he combines expert guidelines, insights for better architectural design, best practices for planning and management, common configuration details, and deep dives into both vSphere and third-party storage. Storage Design and Implementation in vSphere 6, Second Edition will give you the deep understanding you need to make better upfront storage decisions, quickly solve problems if they arise, and keep them from occurring in the first place. Coverage includes: <ul>
<li> Planning and implementing Fibre Channel, FCoE, and iSCSI storage in vSphere virtualized environments </li> <li> Implementing vSphere Pluggable Storage Architecture native multipathing, SATP, PSP, plug-ins, rules, registration, and more </li> <li> Working with Active/Passive and Pseudo-Active/Active ALUA SCSI-3 storage arrays </li> <li> Maximizing availability with multipathing and failover </li> <li> Improving efficiency and value by unifying and centrally managing heterogeneous storage configurations </li> <li> Understanding Storage Virtualization Devices (SVDs) and designing storage to take advantage of them </li> <li> Implementing VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) to maximize performance and resource utilization </li> <li> Working with virtual disks and raw device mappings (RDMs) </li> <li> Managing snapshots in VMFS and Virtual Volumes environments </li> <li> Implementing and administering NFS, VAAI, Storage vMotion, VisorFS, and VASA </li> <li> Integrating VSAN core and advanced features </li> <li> Using Virtual Volumes to streamline storage operations and gain finer VM-level control over external storage 
</li> </ul>

Storage Design and Implementation in vSphere 6: A Technology Deep Dive (VMware Press Technology)

Khalil, Mostafa

Unleash the Power of vCenter Orchestrator to Automate Tasks and Improve Efficiency Today, VMware administrators are responsible for far more infrastructure, servers, and services than ever before. To succeed, they must take full advantage of opportunities to automate and orchestrate their vSphere environments. In Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator , three-time vExpert Cody Bunch shows how to utilize VMware vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) 4.2 to achieve far higher levels of operational efficiency and effectiveness. Bunch reveals what vCO can do, walks through each step of installation and configuration, explains how its “moving parts” work together, and thoroughly introduces both plug-ins and workflows. Building on this core knowledge, he presents several start-to-finish case studies showing how to use vCO to address real-world challenges ranging from provisioning to snapshots, cluster management to decommissioning. Whatever your VMware virtualization environment, this book will help you do more with less, save time, eliminate errors, and improve both performance and reliability. Coverage includes <ul>
<li>Understanding how vCO fits into your environment and identifying your best opportunities to use it </li>
<li>Choosing the right installation scenario and efficiently managing the vCO installation process </li>
<li>Configuring vCO: services, passwords, networking, LDAP, databases, SSL, licensing, plug-ins, backup, and more </li>
<li>Interacting with vCO through actions, packages, plug-ins, web views, resources, and workflows </li>
<li>Automating manual tasks with vCO’s extensive workflow library </li>
<li>Creating sophisticated workflows with drag-and-drop components and JavaScript </li>
<li>Using plug-ins to control infrastructure within and around your vSphere environment </li>
<li>Bringing consistency to VM provisioning, overcoming “VM sprawl” and resource contention, and simplifying support </li>
<li>Optimizing VM lifecycle management, all the way through decommissioning </li>
<li>Automating all snapshot monitoring processes and components </li>
<li>Exporting logs, finding/deleting orphaned files, and performing other day-to-day tasks </li>
<li>Efficiently conducting mass VM migrations </li>
<li>Quickly adding vCenter hosts and clusters, configuring shared storage, and adding hosts to new clusters </li>
<li>Using vCO and third-party plug-ins to gain “private cloud” benefits and flexibility </li> </ul> Networking/Virtualization vmware.com/go/vmwarepress

Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator (VMware Press Technology): With VMware VCenter Orchestrator (Vmware Press)

Bunch, Cody

Managing and Optimizing VMware vSphere® Deployments The Complete Guide to Planning, Deploying, and Operating High-Performance VMware vSphere 5 Virtual Infrastructure To make the most of VMware’s vSphere 5, IT professionals need knowledge, tips, and insights they’ll never find in the manuals–or in any book, until now! In Managing and Optimizing VMware vSphere Deployments, two world-class VMware experts offer start-to-finish lessons for vSphere planning, implementation, operation, management, and troubleshooting: expert insights drawn from their unsurpassed "in-the-trenches" consulting experience. Writing for experienced VMware professionals, the authors focus on high-value techniques optimized for the new vSphere 5, helping you establish frameworks that support your virtual infrastructure’s evolution for years to come. They present scenarios and examples drawn from real-world data, helping you address crucial issues ranging from sizing and performance to redundancy. The book concludes with a full case study that walks you through a design from inception through implementation and explores the reasons for each key decision. Coverage includes • Building a strong foundation for virtual infrastructure: design considerations and best practices • Smoothly integrating vSphere 5 into current environments and considerations • Establishing a more stable infrastructure • Choosing hardware and making optimal configuration decisions • Transforming your VMware design from blueprint to completion • Operating vSphere solutions more efficiently on a day-to-day basis • Automating tasks and maximizing availability • Streamlining the installation of updates, patches, and upgrades • Forecasting and planning capacity on an ongoing basis to support growth • Overcoming roadblocks on the journey to 100% virtualization • Monitoring vSphere 5 with tools provided by VMware and its community • Discovering the most valuable and current online VMware resources • Examples using Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) are provided throughout the book

Managing and Optimizing VMware vSphere Deployments (IT Best Practices): Lessons Learned on the Virtualization Journey (IT Best Practices)

Crookston, Sean

Certification

Every year, datacenter managers must deliver more services faster, with greater flexibility. They must efficiently handle soaring amounts of data, and unprecedented levels of complexity. And they must do all this with lower budgets and fewer resources. Datacenter virtualization with VMware’s vSphere® 5 is the best way to achieve these goals and to accelerate your transition to cloud services. VMware vSphere® 5: Building a Virtual Datacenter brings together all the practical knowledge you need to evaluate, plan, implement, and manage vSphere 5 in your datacenter environment. Top datacenter virtualization consultants Eric Maillé and René-François Mennecier begin by introducing vSphere 5 from the viewpoint of the datacenter manager and professional. They present essential definitions, advantages, and functions; review vSphere 5’s architecture; and introduce core components such as vCenter Server and ESXi 5.0. Next, Maillé and Mennecier turn to implementation, presenting detailed examples, schemas, and best practices drawn from their extensive experience. They share practical insights into budgeting, scheduling, and planning; choosing the right architecture; and integrating vSphere with existing datacenter elements, including servers, storage, clusters, network infrastructure, and business continuity plans. They conclude with a start-to-finish case study: a datacenter virtualization project designed to support specific business objectives. Coverage includes • Assessing the potential benefits of datacenter virtualization in your environment • Organizing and managing a smooth migration to the virtualized datacenter • Anticipating specific challenges and risks associated with datacenter virtualization • Making tradeoffs to optimize stability, elasticity, scalability, and cost • Choosing the best installation/configuration options for your environment • Effectively linking vSphere 5 virtualization to existing datacenter elements • Driving more value from vSphere 5’s powerful new datacenter features • Providing storage to efficiently support your hosted VMs, now and in the future • Managing limited memory and other server constraints • Leveraging new options for service continuity and high availability • Using backup architecture as a lever to reduce costs

VMware vSphere; Building a Virtual Datacenter (VMware Press Technology): Building a Virtual Datacenter : Business IT (Vmware Press Technology)

Maille, Eric

Prepare to succeed at your VCDX panel defense and gain world-class knowledge for designing complex VMware environments VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) is the highest level of VMware certification, achieved by dedicated professionals who have demonstrated exceptional skill in VMware enterprise deployments. To earn a VCDX, professionals must create a complete enterprise VMware design and undergo an arduous defense at the hands of some of the world’s most sophisticated VMware experts. Now, for the first time, there’s a comprehensive guide to VCDX defense: VCDX Boot Camp. Based on the legendary standing-room-only boot camps led by VCDX co-creator John Arrasjid, this guide captures the unsurpassed personal experience of three pioneering VCDX certification holders, program developers, and defense panelists. John Arrasjid, Ben Lin, and Mostafa Khalil cover everything you need to know to prepare for certification. They demystify the entire VCDX defense process, clearly explain its format and prerequisites, and offer indispensable tips for maximizing your likelihood of success. Detailed chapters on both design and troubleshooting offer four complete scenarios explaining exactly what VCDX panelists will expect from your defense. Learn how to think like a VCDX, discovering powerful insights and best practices for designing your own world-class virtualized environment. Coverage includes • Authoritative preparation guidance (including expert insights into scheduling your preparation and defense) • Tips for conducting mock defenses, boot camps, and study sessions with your colleagues • How to select, create, and document a superior, defensible design • How to make design choices and incorporate design patterns that support the VCDX blueprint • How to confidently defend your skills in architecture, designing new solutions, and troubleshooting design or implementation flaws • Proven tips for responding to tough questions from panelists • Detailed example defenses of designs incorporating VCDX-DCV, VCDX-Cloud, and VCDX-DT vmwarepress.com vmware.com/go/vcdx

VCDX Boot Camp: Preparing for the VCDX Panel Defense (VMware Press Technology)

Arrasjid, John

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