Best Practice Guides
Resource Management with VMware DRS
This white paper provides an architectural and conceptual overview of VMware DRS and describes best practices for using DRS to simplify provisioning of applications, achieve higher levels of resource utilization, and better align use of IT resources with business priorities.
DRS Performance and Best Practices
This performance study focuses on understanding the effectiveness and scalability of DRS algorithms. It identifies various scenarios in which you can benefit from DRS and explains how to configure your environment to take best advantage of DRS.
VMware VMotion and CPU Compatibility
This white paper focuses exclusively on CPU compatibility and outlines CPU compatibility checks performed by VMware VirtualCenter before allowing migration with VMotion. It describes why some CPU compatibility constraints make VMotion possible only between certain revisions of CPUs. The appendices detail some differences in features and extensions in current CPUs and describe procedures that could be used to relax some CPU compatibility constraints to facilitate VMotion.
VMware VMbook - A Practical Guide to Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery with VMware Infrastructure
This VMware® VMbook focuses on business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) and is intended to guide the reader through the step-by-step process to set-up a multisite VMware Infrastructure that is capable of supporting BCDR services for designated virtual machines at time of test or during an actual event that necessitated the declaration of a disaster, resulting in the activation of services in a designated BCDR site.
VMware HA: Concepts and Best Practices
This paper describes the use of VMware HA to system and server administrators and IT architects. The paper addresses the important details of the VMware HA architecture and expounds on configuration and implementation topics and how to avoid configuration issues.
Using VMware Infrastructure for Backup and Restore
This white paper describes what resources should be backed up on a VMware ESX system and explains the options available for that backup, including advantages and disadvantages of each option.
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Evaluator Guide
The Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Evaluator Guide is intended to provide the SRM customers and evaluators with a guide that will walk them through the SRM workflow that has to be completed to allow for the successful and automated service failover from the designated SRM protected site to the designated SRM recovery site. This guide will also provide an overview which includes the considerations and guidance to execute a failback of services from the recovery site back to the site that was originally designated as the SRM protected site.
Additional Resources
Resource Management with VMware DRS
This white paper provides an architectural and conceptual overview of VMware DRS and describes best practices for using DRS to simplify provisioning of applications, achieve higher levels of resource utilization, and better align use of IT resources with business priorities.
DRS Performance and Best Practices
This performance study focuses on understanding the effectiveness and scalability of DRS algorithms. It identifies various scenarios in which you can benefit from DRS and explains how to configure your environment to take best advantage of DRS.
VMware VMotion and CPU Compatibility
This white paper focuses exclusively on CPU compatibility and outlines CPU compatibility checks performed by VMware VirtualCenter before allowing migration with VMotion. It describes why some CPU compatibility constraints make VMotion possible only between certain revisions of CPUs. The appendices detail some differences in features and extensions in current CPUs and describe procedures that could be used to relax some CPU compatibility constraints to facilitate VMotion.
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