Chapter 5. vSphere Cluster Design
In this chapter, we will cover the tasks related to vSphere Cluster Design for best performance. You will learn the following aspects of vSphere Cluster Design:
- Trade-off factors while designing scale up and scale out clusters
- Using VM Monitoring
- vSphere Fault Tolerance design and its impact
- DPM and its impact
- Choosing the reserved cluster failover capacity
- Rightly choosing a vSphere HA cluster size
Introduction
Downtime always brings significant costs to any environment. Thus, implementing a high availability solution is always necessary. However, traditionally it brings complexity, in terms of manageability and cost.
VMware vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) makes it simpler, easier, and cheaper to provide high availability ...
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