In this chapter, we will cover the tasks related to vSphere Cluster Design for best performance. You will learn the following aspects of vSphere Cluster Design:

• Trade-off factors while designing scale-up and scale-out clusters
• Using VM Monitoring
• vSphere Fault Tolerance design and its impact
• DPM and its impact
• Choosing the reserved cluster failover capacity
• Choosing the correct vSphere HA cluster size