In November last year, virtualization.info covered the release of a paper titled:"Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 4.1" , providing performance tips covering the most performance-critical areas of vSphere 4.1.
Now that vSphere 5.0 has been released, also this paper has been updated, titled: "Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 5.0". The paper contains 76 pages and covers the new vSphere 5.0 features from performance perspective including:
- Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (Storage DRS)
- Virtual NUMA
- Memory compression
- Swap to host cache
- SplitRx mode
- VMX swap
- Multiple vMotion vmknics
Also many topics were updated from the previous version, including:
- Choosing hardware for a vSphere deployment
- Power management
- Configuring ESXi for best performance
- Guest operating system performance
- vCenter and vCenter database performance
- vMotion and Storage vMotion performance
- Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and Distributed Power Management (DPM) performance
- High Availability (HA), Fault Tolerance (FT), and VMware vCenter Update Manager performance