Check out the following resources for more information on the topics covered in this chapter:

• Adobe Deploys Hadoop as a Service on VMware vSphere at http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Adobe-Deploys-HAAS-CS.pdf
• Virtualizing Hadoop in Large-Scale Infrastructures, technical white paper by EMC at https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-41473
• Virtualized Hadoop Performance with VMware vSphere 6 on High-Performance Servers at http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10452
• A Benchmarking Case Study of Virtualized Hadoop Performance on vSphere at http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10222
• Transaction Processing Council—TPCx-HS Benchmark Results (Cloudera on VMware performance, submitted by Dell) at http://www.tpc.org/tpcx-hs/results/tpcxhs_results.asp
• ESG Lab Review: VCE vBlock/systems with EMC Isilon for Enterprise Hadoop at http://www.esg-global.com/lab-reports/esg-lab-review-vce-vblock-systems-with-emc-isilon-for-enterprise-hadoop/
• VMware BDE Documentation site: vSphere Big Data Extensions (BDE) at https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vsphere-big-data-extensions-pubs.html
• VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions—Administrator's and User's Guide and Command-line Interface User's Guide at https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vsphere-big-data-extensions-pubs.html
• Blog articles on BDE Version 2.1 at http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2014/10/whats-new-vsphere-big-data-extensions-version-2-1.html
• VMware Big Data Extensions (BDE) Community Discussion at https://communities.vmware.com/message/2308400
• Apache Hadoop Storage Provisioning Using VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions at https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-vSphere-BDE-Storage-Provisioning.pdf
• Hadoop Virtualization Extensions at http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/Hadoop-Virtualization-Extensions-on-VMware-vSphere-5.pdf
• Container Orchestration on vSphere with Big Data Extensions at https://labs.vmware.com/flings/big-data-extensions-for-vsphere-standard-edition