Eric Sloof

The Data Center Has Evolved — Has Your Infrastructure Kept Up?

Maintaining an agile data center infrastructure tends to be a source of headaches for IT leaders and administrators. It doesn't have to be.

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) evolves the way that compute, storage, and management are delivered and provisioned to help you cut operational and capital costs, increase information technology (IT) and business agility and improve application performance. Get the guide to learn:

• What HCI is all about
• How you can get started
• Where you'll get the biggest bang for your HCI buck

VMware HCX is an application mobility platform that is designed for simplifying application migration, workload rebalancing, and business continuity across data centers and clouds.

VMware HCX enables:

Application migration
You can schedule and migrate thousands of vSphere virtual machines within and across data centers without requiring a reboot.

Change platforms or upgrade vSphere versions
With HCX, you can migrate workloads from vSphere 5.x and non-vSphere (KVM and Hyper-V) environments within and across data centers or clouds to current vSphere versions without requiring an upgrade.

Workload rebalancing
Workload rebalancing provides a mobility platform across cloud regions and cloud providers to allow customers to move applications and workloads at any time to meet scale, cost management, compliance, and vendor neutrality goals.

Business continuity and protection
Using HCX capabilities, administrators can protect workloads by replicating them to other HCX enabled sites. Workload migration is available on-demand, or it can be scheduled for business or maintenance planning.

This video walks through the process of onboarding a VMware Cloud on AWS environment to vRealize Network Insight Cloud. In order to get the necessary insights into its Networking behavior & Security posture.

This paper discusses best practices for running Enterprise Java Applications on VMware vSphere virtual machines. The guidelines will help you to get the best from your Java applications and application servers when you run them on VMware vSphere.

Architectural Best Practices for Enterprise Java Applications running on vSphere and best Practices for Enterprise Java.

Applications running on vSphere. The following topics are overviewed:

• Design and sizing of VMs,
• Guest OS recommendations,
• Fine-tuning of CPU, memory, storage, networking,
• Useful JVM (Java Virtual Machine) tuning parameters,
• Various high availability features in vSphere ESXi host clusters,
• Resource pools (horizontal scalability and vertical scalability),
• VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).