We are pleased to announce the availability of Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 6.0. This is a book designed to help system administrators obtain the best performance from vSphere 6.0 deployments.
The book addresses many of the new features in vSphere 6.0 from a performance perspective. These include:
- A new version of vSphere Network I/O Control
- A new host-wide performance tuning feature
- A new version of VMware Fault Tolerance (now supporting multi-vCPU virtual machines)
- The new vSphere Content Library feature
We’ve also updated and expanded on many of the topics in the book. These include:
- VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) features
- Network hardware considerations
- Changes in ESXi host power management
- Changes in ESXi transparent memory sharing
- Using Receive Side Scaling (RSS) in virtual machines
- Virtual NUMA (vNUMA) configuration
- Network performance in guest operating systems
- vSphere Web Client performance
- VMware vMotion and Storage vMotion performance
- VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and Distributed Power Management (DPM) performance
The book can be found here http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMware-PerfBest-Practices-vSphere6-0.pdf.