Book – VMware vSphere Clustering Technical Deepdive

Those masters of VMware vSphere HA and DRS Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman have been at it again and have just released another deep-dive vSphere book this time on ‘VMware vSphere 5 Clustering – Technical Deepdive’. It covers the topics of HA and DRS as found in their previous book along with a multitude of other new topic areas following areas (and anything else with a two or three letter acronym Winking smile ) that will also no doubt assist in your studies for your VCP, VCAP or VCDX accreditations VMware vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive :

HA isolation detection and response
HA admission control
VM Monitoring
HA and DRS integration
DRS imbalance algorithm
Resource Pools
Impact of reservations and limits
CPU Resource Scheduling
Memory Scheduler
DPM
Datastore Clusters
Storage DRS algorithm
Influencing SDRS recommendations

I’ve already downloaded my copy to my Kindle (details below). The following is from the book summary which provides a good summary on what the book covers:

VMware vSphere 5.0 Clustering Technical Deepdive zooms in on three key components of every VMware based infrastructure and is by no means a “how to” guide. It covers the basic steps needed to create a vSphere HA and DRS cluster and to implement Storage DRS. Even more important, it explains the concepts and mechanisms behind HA, DRS and Storage DRS which will enable you to make well educated decisions. This book will take you in to the trenches of HA, DRS and Storage DRS and will give you the tools to understand and implement e.g. HA admission control policies, DRS resource pools, Datastore Clusters and resource allocation settings. On top of that each section contains basic design principles that can be used for designing, implementing or improving VMware infrastructures and fundamental supporting features like vMotion, Storage I/O Control and much more are described in detail for the very first time.