Berikut ini adalah Summary yang sangat baik untuk mengumpulkan Artikel mengenai Best Practice di VMware vSphere 5.5, saya mengutip dari blog Dan C Barber.
BEST PRACTICE SUMMARY: UPGRADING GOTCHAS
BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: GENERAL MANAGEMENT & MONITORING
BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION
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Optimize and verify disk I/O alignment—it stills matters today
Optimize and verify NUMA node alignment Optimize and verify configured Host Power Management (different than DPM) Make use of Storage I/O Control for better workload normalization Make use of Network I/O Control for better workload normalization Optimize and verify iSCSI storage settings (including NetApp best practices) Optimize and verify NFS storage settings (including NetApp best practices) Optimize resources (reservations, limits, and shares) Optimize hosts and virtual machines for latency-sensitive applications Right-size vCenter and vSphere Update Manager Optimize Hosts and Storage for NetApp Integration through VAAI |
BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: TROUBLESHOOTING
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BEST PRACTICES RESOURCES
VMware KB Articles
- vSphere 5.5 Update 1 NFS All Paths Down Condition – KB 2076392 Fixed: Express Patch 4
- NetApp vSphere 5.x NFS Disconnects: MaxQueueDepth – KB 2016122
- Windows 2012 Intel E1000 PSOD – KB 2059053
- vSphere 5.x ESXTOP – VMware KB 1017926
- VMware “Heartbleed” Security Advisory – VMSA-2014-0004
- See also VMware Communities
Other Best Practice Links
- VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)
- vSphere 5.5 What’s New
- vSphere 5.5 Configuration Maximums
- vSphere 5.5 Performance Best Practices
- vSphere 5.5 Storage Guide
- vSphere 5.5 Host Power Management
- vSphere 5.5 Host Profiles
- vSphere VMFS File Locking
- vSphere 5.5 Flash Read Cache Performance
- vSphere Best Practices for Performance of Latency-Sensitive Applications
- Yellow-bricks | ESXTOP
- VMware Hands-on Labs
- vCenter Server Appliance Simulator
- Cisco Unified Communications DocWiki for Virtualization
- Dell Equallogic vSphere 5.x Best Practices
Source: http://www.datacenterdan.com/blog/vsphere-55-best-practices-summary