Published: 07 February 2020
Summary
Here are 50 best practices for VMs, hosts, storage and networking, plus a 51-point maintenance plan, for use with Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat KVM/RHVH or VMware ESXi. It helps I&O technical professionals optimize design and sizing; block, file and hyperconverged storage; and performance.
Included in Full Research
- Prework: Select Which Servers to Virtualize and Which Hypervisor to Use
- Design and Sizing
- Step 1: Cluster Design
- Step 2: Host Sizing
- Step 3: VM Sizing
- Step 4: HA/DR Design
- Best Practices for Design and Sizing
- Storage and Networking
- Block-Based Storage vs. File-Based Storage
- Hyperconverged Storage
- Virtual Networking
- Best Practices for Storage and Networking
- Operations
- Performance Management
- Workload Tuning
- Sample Maintenance Plan
- Best Practices for Operations