In a previous blog I mentioned that the VMware vSphere 7 exam had been released, due to lockdown and the fact I've been teaching fairly constantly I haven't had much opportunity to look after my blogs or sit my exams.
I've now set aside some time to look at passing my VCP-DCV 2020 on vSphere 7 and I've found the following white paper extrememly useful, not only from a revision point of view, but in general for various labs etc. Click the link to download a copy
Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 7.0
It contains all sorts of useful topics:
- Persistent memory (PMem), including using PMem with NUMA and vNUMA
- Getting the best performance from NVMe and NVME-oF storage
- AMD EPYC processor NUMA settings
- Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) 2.0
- Automatic space reclamation (UNMAP)
- Host-Wide performance tuning (aka, “dense mode”)
- Power management settings
- Hardware-assisted virtualisation
- Storage hardware considerations
- Network hardware considerations
- Memory page sharing
- Getting the best performance from iSCSI and NFS storage
- vSphere virtual machine encryption recommendations
- Running storage latency-sensitive workloads
- Running network latency-sensitive workloads
- Network I/O Control (NetIOC)
- DirectPath I/O
- Microsoft Virtualisation-Based Security (VBS)
- Selecting virtual network adapters
- vCenter database considerations
- The vSphere HTML5 Client
- VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager
- VMware vSAN performance
Enjoy, hope you find it as useful as I have
