vmware.comにある、その名の通りのガイド。
vSphere 4.0を構築しそうなので一通り目を通しておこう…。
ちなみに目次。
- 1 Hardware for Use with VMware vSphere 11
- Validate Your Hardware 11
- Hardware CPU Considerations 11
- Hardware-Assisted Virtualization 11
- Hardware-Assisted CPU Virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD AMD-V) 11
- Hardware-Assisted MMU Virtualization (Intel EPT and AMD RVI) 11
- Hardware Storage Considerations 13
- Hardware Networking Considerations 14
- Hardware BIOS Settings 15
- 2 ESX and Virtual Machines 17
- ESX General Considerations 17
- ESX CPU Considerations 19
- Hyper-Threading 20
- Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) 21
- Configuring ESX for Hardware-Assisted Virtualization 21
- ESX Memory Considerations 23
- Memory Overhead 23
- Memory Sizing 23
- Memory Overcommit Techniques 23
- Memory Swapping 24
- Large Memory Pages for Hypervisor and Guest Operating System 25
- Hardware-Assisted MMU Virtualization 25
- ESX Storage Considerations 26
- ESX Networking Considerations 28
- 3 Guest Operating Systems 29
- Guest Operating System General Considerations 29
- Running Paravirtualized Operating Systems 29
- Measuring Performance in Virtual Machines 30
- Guest Operating System CPU Considerations 31
- Guest Operating System Storage Considerations 32
- Guest Operating System Networking Considerations 33
- 4 Virtual Infrastructure Management 35
- General Resource Management Best Practices 35
- VMware vCenter Best Practices 36
- VMware vCenter Database Considerations 36
- VMware VMotion and Storage VMotion 37
- VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) Best Practices 38
- VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM) Best Practices 40
- VMware Fault Tolerance Best Practices 41