7. Performance in vSphere

VMware has invested considerable resources in the area of performance with the release of vSphere. In fact, the company claims that vSphere has seen the largest performance increase of any of its releases to date, a statement which VMware has backed up with an impressive array of published benchmark results. Performance monitoring and diagnosis is usually an area of confusion and misinterpretation among many administrators, and although getting your vSphere environment up and running out of the box is a straightforward process, fine-tuning and ensuring that your vSphere environment is running optimally is more complex. Even if you are familiar with the basics of vSphere administration, it is well worth it to take the ...

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