Performance Best Practices for vSphere 6.0 is Available

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.