Paravirtualization provides a direct communication path between the guest OS within the virtual machine and the ESXi hypervisor. Paravirtualized virtual hardware and the corresponding drivers that are installed with VMware Tools are optimized to provide improved performance and efficiency. This hardware includes the VMXNET network adapter and the PVSCSI storage adapter.
Using paravirtualized VM hardware
by Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak, Andrea Mauro, Martin Gavanda, Hersey Cartwright, M
The Complete VMware vSphere Guide
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- About Packt
- Contributors
- Preface
- The Virtual Data Center
- The Discovery Process
- The Design Factors
- vSphere Management Design
- Identifying vCenter components and dependencies
- Selecting a vCenter deployment option
- Determining vCenter resource requirements
- Selecting a database for the vCenter deployment
- Determining database interoperability
- Choosing a vCenter deployment topology
- Designing for management availability
- Designing a separate management cluster
- Configuring vCenter mail, SNMP, and alarms
- Using Enhanced Linked Mode
- Using the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix
- Backing up the vCenter Server components
- Planning vCenter HA to increase vCenter availability
- Upgrading vCenter Server
- Designing a vSphere Update Manager Deployment
- vSphere Storage Design
- Identifying RAID levels
- Calculating storage capacity requirements
- Determining storage performance requirements
- Calculating storage throughput
- Storage connectivity options
- Storage path selection plugins
- Sizing datastores
- Designing VSAN for virtual machine storage
- Using VMware Virtual Volumes
- Incorporating storage policies into a design
- NFS version 4.1 capabilities and limits
- Using persistent memory to maximize VM performance
- vSphere Network Design
- Determining network bandwidth requirements
- Standard or distributed virtual switches
- Providing network availability
- Network resource management
- Using private VLANs
- IP storage network design considerations
- Using jumbo frames
- Creating custom TCP/IP stacks
- Designing for VMkernel services
- vMotion network design considerations
- Using 10 GbE converged network adapters
- IPv6 in a vSphere design
- Remote direct memory access options
- vSphere Compute Design
- Calculating CPU resource requirements
- Calculating memory resource requirements
- Transparent page sharing
- Scaling up or scaling out
- Determining the vCPU-to-core ratio
- Clustering compute resources
- Reserving HA resources to support failover
- Using distributed resource scheduling to balance cluster resources
- Ensuring cluster vMotion compatibility
- Using resource pools
- Providing Fault Tolerance protection
- Leveraging host flash
- vSphere Physical Design
- Virtual Machine Design
- Right-sizing virtual machines
- Enabling CPU hot add and memory hot plug
- Using paravirtualized VM hardware
- Creating virtual machine templates
- Upgrading and installing VMware Tools
- Upgrading VM virtual hardware
- Using vApps to organize virtualized applications
- Using VM affinity and anti-affinity rules
- Using VM to Host affinity and anti-affinity rules
- Converting physical servers with vCenter Converter Standalone
- Migrating servers into vSphere
- Deployment Workflow and Component Installation
- Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.7
- Using the VMware vSphere HTML5 client
- Configuring ESXi
- Backing up and restoring ESXi
- Configuring vCSA
- Exporting and importing the vCSA configuration
- Managing data centers, clusters, and hosts
- Automating tasks with scripts
- Life Cycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading
- VM Deployment and Management
- VM Resource Management
- Availability and Disaster Recovery
- Securing and Protecting Your Environment
- Analyzing and Optimizing Your Environment
- Troubleshooting Your Environment
- Building Your Own VMware vSphere Lab
- The importance of lifelong learning
- Choosing the right platform
- Software components and licensing
- Architecture and logical design
- A detailed implementation guide
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