vSphere 7: Managing vSphere Resources
Watch this course to learn vSphere resource management - including shares, reservations, limits, and resource pools - like a pro!
What you'll learn
Managing VMware vSphere resources is critical to ensure that your applications perform well, but it can be confusing. In this course, vSphere 7: Managing vSphere Resources, you will learn how to efficiently manage VMware vSphere 7 resources. First, you'll learn about memory and CPU resources in vSphere. Next, you'll delve into resource management by creating multi-level resource pools, shares, reservations, and limits. Finally, you’ll explore how to apply those same vSphere resource management constructs to networking and storage by configuring vSphere storage I/O and network I/O control. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to utilize vSphere resource management like a pro!
Table of contents
- Introduction 2m
- Understanding Reservations, Limits, and Shares 6m
- Working with Memory Reservations 4m
- Working with Memory Limits 2m
- Working with Memory Shares 2m
- Working with CPU Reservations 2m
- Working with CPU Limits 1m
- Working with CPU Shares 1m
- Explain Use Cases for Resource Pools 3m
- Create/Remove a Resource Pool 2m
- Create a Hierarchical Resource Pool 7m
- Add/Remove Virtual Machines to a Resource Pool 3m
- Understanding Expandable and Scalable Shares 5m
- Monitoring Resource Utilization 2m
- Understanding Virtual Flash Resources 3m
- What This Module Covered 2m
- Introduction 1m
- Understanding Network I/O Control (NIOC) 2m
- Determine Network I/O Control Requirements 2m
- Enable/Disable Network I/O Control 1m
- Understanding Bandwidth Allocation for System Traffic 3m
- Understanding Bandwidth Allocation for Virtual Machine Traffic 6m
- Monitor Network I/O Control 2m
- What This Module Covered 1m
About the author
David has authored over 100 courses for Pluralsight.com around enterprise data center technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization, and (especially) VMware vSphere. He is a partner at ActualTechMedia.com where he creates compelling enterprise technology content, moderates online events, and helps to connect some of the best-known technology companies in the industry with the end user community. With over 20 years in enterprise technology, he has served as an IT Manager, administrator, an... more