Author : Michael Corey
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0321927753
Offers techniques, tips, and insights into squeezing maximum performance out of a virtualized database.
Author : Joey D'Antoni
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 21,50 MB
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1800206585
Learn how to combine SQL Server's analytics with Azure's flexibility and hybrid connectivity to achieve industry-leading performance and manageability for your cloud database. Key FeaturesUnderstand platform availability for SQL Server in AzureExplore the benefits and deployment choices offered by SQL IaaSGet to grips with deploying SQL Server on the Linux development ecosystemBook Description Deploying SQL Server on Azure virtual machines allows you to work on full versions of SQL Server in the cloud without having to maintain on-premises hardware. The book begins by introducing you to the SQL portfolio in Azure and takes you through SQL Server IaaS scenarios, before explaining the factors that you need to consider while choosing an OS for SQL Server in Azure VMs. As you progress through the book, you'll explore different VM options and deployment choices for IaaS and understand platform availability, migration tools, and best practices in Azure. In later chapters, you'll learn how to configure storage to achieve optimized performance. Finally, you'll get to grips with the concept of Azure Hybrid Benefit and find out how you can use it to maximize the value of your existing on-premises SQL Server. By the end of this book, you'll be proficient in administering SQL Server on Microsoft Azure and leveraging the tools required for its deployment. What you will learnChoose an operating system for SQL Server in Azure VMsUse the Azure Management Portal to facilitate the deployment processVerify connectivity and network latency in cloudConfigure storage for optimal performance and connectivityExplore various disaster recovery options for SQL Server in AzureOptimize SQL Server on LinuxDiscover how to back up databases to a URLWho this book is for SQL Server on Azure VMs is for you if you are a developer, data enthusiast, or anyone who wants to migrate SQL Server databases to Azure virtual machines. Basic familiarity with SQL Server and managed identities for Azure resources will be a plus.
Author : Matt Liebowitz
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0321912039
Best practices, guidance, and tips for virtualizing Microsoft® business critical applications on the VMware vSphere® platform By virtualizing Microsoft's enterprise applications on vSphere, you can drive down costs while migrating toward flexible, low-cost private cloud architectures. This unique guidebook bridges the gap between the Microsoft and VMware worlds, bringing together the deep knowledge, cutting-edge best practices, and practical techniques you need to succeed. Leading experts Matt Liebowitz and Alex Fontana present end-to-end coverage of virtualizing Windows Server 2012 AD domain controllers and failover clusters, Exchange Server 2013, SQL Server 2012, and SharePoint Server 2013. They offer indispensable advice on sizing, architecture, performance, availability, monitoring, and metrics. Throughout, the authors share valuable tips, tricks, and insights from their own experiences. For each Microsoft application, they provide "proof of concept" sample configurations and clearly explain how new features impact virtualization. You'll also find authoritative, up-to-date guidance on licensing and other issues related to ensuring full support from both Microsoft and VMware. Coverage includes * Evaluating the benefits, risks, and challenges of virtualizing Microsoft business critical applications * Identifying strategies for success associated with people, processes, and technology * Reviewing VMware vSphere features most important to virtualizing business-critical applications * Taking advantage of new virtualization-aware features built in to Windows Server 2012 domain controllers * Designing and configuring vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) clusters to run Windows enterprise applications * Reflecting Exchange Server 2013's new architecture to maximize its performance in virtualized environments * Leveraging new SQL Server 2012 features to simplify the delivery of high availability on virtual servers * Reducing SQL Server 2012 licensing costs through virtualization * Planning, designing, and deploying virtualized SharePoint Server 2013 environments
Author : Bert Scalzo
Publisher : Rampant TechPress
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0979795141
Successfully meeting the challenges of combining VMware and Oracle, this comprehensive reference provides a broad spectrum of technological recommendations that demonstrate how to reliably and consistently achieve optimal configuration and maximum performance for any virtualized Oracle database scenario. The guide includes the best practices for virtualized servers, suggested virtualization server configuration, and recommendations for client operating system configuration for Oracle in a virtualized world. With real-world examples and highly applicable advice, this handbook also details the complexities of designing, configuring, maintaining, and tuning Oracle database deployments, making it a complete compendium for keeping virtualized Oracle databases in top form.
Author : Michael Corey
Publisher : VMWare Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 2014-07-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0133430154
The start-to-finish guide to virtualizing business-critical SQL Server databases on VMware vSphere 5 By virtualizing business-critical databases, enterprises can drive far more value from existing IT infrastructure. But squeezing maximum performance out of a virtualized database instance is an art as much as a science. This indispensable start-to-finish guide brings together all the techniques, tips, and insights you need to succeed. Drawing on unsurpassed personal experience, three leading experts share complete best practices for deploying business-critical database servers in virtualized vSphere 5 environments. They cover the entire project lifecycle, bridging technical and communications gaps between SQL Server and VMware professionals that often make database virtualization more difficult than it needs to be. You’ll find specific guidance for architects and administrators responsible for systems, storage, databases, applications, or VMware virtualization. The authors also present detailed, start-to-finish coverage of performance baselining and testing: all you need to make your virtualized databases as fast as they are cost effective. Although this book focuses on SQL, the authors’ proven guidance for enhancing performance can be leveraged by any IT professional virtualizing a demanding Tier 1 application. Coverage includes • Business cases for database virtualization: consolidation, Database as a Service (DaaS), efficiency, and “SLAs on steroids” • Using the redundancy inherent in virtualization to improve availability • Constructing a careful, conservative implementation plan • Balancing disk, CPU, memory, and network for superior performance • Mastering the five key principles of database storage design • Leveraging memory: SQL MAX, page locking, NUMA, reservations, swapping, large memory pages, and more • Ensuring responsiveness by providing a fast, reliable, low-latency network • Supporting advanced AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances and Availability Groups • Baselining physical systems and properly determining resource requirements • Configuring performance tests from beginning to end • Migrating existing SQL Server databases onto a vSphere platform • Avoiding traps and pitfalls in virtualizing production databases • Managing and monitoring virtualized database instances and resources
Author : Scott Lowe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0470890800
Offers a comprehensive look at VMware technology, how to implement it, and how to make the most of what it offers.
Author : Emad Benjamin
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Computers
ISBN : 013349120X
Virtualizing and Tuning Large-Scale Java Platforms Technical best practices and real-world tips for optimizing enterprise Java applications on VMware vSphere� Enterprises no longer ask, "Can Java be virtualized"? Today, they ask, "Just how large can we scale virtualized Java application platforms, and just how efficiently can we tune them?" Now, the leading expert on Java virtualization answers these questions, offering detailed technical information you can apply in any production or QA/test environment. Emad Benjamin has spent nine years virtualizing VMware's own enterprise Java applications and working with nearly 300 leading VMware customers on projects of all types and sizes--from 100 JVMs to 10,000+, with heaps from 1GB to 360GB, and including massive big-data applications built on clustered JVMs. Reflecting all this experience, he shows you how to successfully size and tune any Java workload. This reference and performance "cookbook" identifies high-value optimization opportunities that apply to physical environments, virtual environments, or both. You learn how to rationalize and scale existing Java infrastructure, modernize architecture for new applications, and systematically benchmark and improve every aspect of virtualized Java performance. Throughout, Benjamin offers real performance studies, specific advice, and "from-the-trenches" insights into monitoring and troubleshooting. Coverage includes --Performance issues associated with large-scale Java platforms, including consolidation, elasticity, and flexibility --Technical considerations arising from theoretical and practical limits of Java platforms --Building horizontal in-memory databases with VMware vFabric SQLFire to improve scalability and response times --Tuning large-scale Java using throughput/parallel GC and Concurrent Mark and Sweep (CMS) techniques --Designing and sizing a new virtualized Java environment --Designing and sizing new large-scale Java platforms when migrating from physical to virtualized deployments --Designing and sizing large-scale Java platforms for latency-sensitive in-memory databases --Real-world performance studies: SQLFire vs. RDBMS, Spring-based Java web apps, vFabric SpringTrader, application tiers, data tiers, and more --Performance differences between ESXi3, 4.1, and 5 --Best-practice considerations for each type of workload: architecture, performance, design, sizing, and high availability --Identifying bottlenecks in the load balancer, web server, Java application server, or DB Server tiers --Advanced vSphere Java performance troubleshooting with esxtop --Performance FAQs: answers to specific questions enterprise customers have asked
Author : Forbes Guthrie
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 2013-03-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 111849394X
Achieve the performance, scalability, and ROI your business needs What can you do at the start of a virtualization deployment to make things run more smoothly? If you plan, deploy, maintain, and optimize vSphere solutions in your company, this unique book provides keen insight and solutions. From hardware selection, network layout, and security considerations to storage and hypervisors, this book explains the design decisions you'll face and how to make the right choices. Written by two virtualization experts and packed with real-world strategies and examples, VMware vSphere Design, Second Edition will help you design smart design decisions. Shows IT administrators how plan, deploy, maintain, and optimize vSphere virtualization solutions Explains the design decisions typically encountered at every step in the process and how to make the right choices Covers server hardware selection, network topology, security, storage, virtual machine design, and more Topics include ESXi hypervisors deployment, vSwitches versus dvSwitches, and FC, FCoE, iSCSI, or NFS storage Find out the "why" behind virtualization design decisions and make better choices, with VMware vSphere Design, Second Edition, which has been fully updated for vSphere 5.x.
Author : Ryan Troy
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 2009-10-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1449388868
If you want to gain insight into the real-world uses of VMware ESX and ESXi, this book provides scores of step-by-step solutions for working with these products in a wide range of network environments. You'll not only learn the basics -- how to pool resources from hardware servers, computer clusters, networks, and storage, and then distribute them among virtual machines -- but also the stumbling blocks you'll encounter when you monitor systems, troubleshoot problems, and deal with security. In addition to the recipes, VMware Cookbook includes background information to help you determine your virtualization needs. You'll come to view VMware as part of the real environment, alongside operating systems, storage, and logical and physical network components. Follow best practices for installing VMware in your environment Discover how to secure and monitor your network Understand disk storage implementation and configuration Learn resource management using the distributed resource scheduler, shares, and resource pools Configure logical and physical networks Learn how to clone and migrate servers Gain valuable tips for configuration and fine-tuning Many resources can teach you about virtualization and the basics of VMware. This book is for system administrators who are ready to go beyond an introduction.
Author : EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 47,5 MB
Release : 2018-02-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1785881973
Maximize your administration skills effectively and efficiently Key Features Implement cost-effective virtualization solutions for your organization with actionable recipes Explore the concepts of VMM with real-world use cases Use the latest features with VMM 2016 such as Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade, Guarded Fabric and Storage Spaces Direct Book Description Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2016 is part of the System Center suite to configure and manage datacenters and offers a unified management experience on-premises and Azure cloud. This book will be your best companion for day-to-day virtualization needs within your organization, as it takes you through a series of recipes to simplify and plan a highly scalable and available virtual infrastructure. You will learn the deployment tips, techniques, and solutions designed to show users how to improve VMM 2016 in a real-world scenario. The chapters are divided in a way that will allow you to implement the VMM 2016 and additional solutions required to effectively manage and monitor your fabrics and clouds. We will cover the most important new features in VMM 2016 across networking, storage, and compute, including brand new Guarded Fabric, Shielded VMs and Storage Spaces Direct. The recipes in the book provide step-by-step instructions giving you the simplest way to dive into VMM fabric concepts, private cloud, and integration with external solutions such as VMware, Operations Manager, and the Windows Azure Pack. By the end of this book, you will be armed with the knowledge you require to start designing and implementing virtual infrastructures in VMM 2016. What you will learn Plan and design a VMM architecture for real-world deployment Configure fabric resources, including compute, networking, and storage Create and manage Storage Spaces Direct clusters in VMM Configure Guarded Fabric with Shielded VMs Create and deploy virtual machine templates and multi-tier services Manage Hyper-V and VMware environments from VMM Enhance monitoring and management capabilities Upgrade to VMM 2016 from previous versions Who this book is for If you are a solutions architect, technical consultant, administrator, or any other virtualization enthusiast who needs to use Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager in a real-world environment, then this is the book for you.
