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Virtualization Essentials
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Virtualization Essentials

by Matthew Portnoy
May 2012
Beginner
304 pages
7h 53m
English
Sybex
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Deploying Applications in a Virtual Environment

The best way to be sure that an application performs well is to understand the resource needs of the application, but more importantly, to measure that resource usage regularly. Once you understand the requirements, you can begin to plan for deploying an application in a virtual environment. There are some things that you can always count on. A poorly architected application in a physical environment is not necessarily going to improve when moved to a virtual environment. An application that is starved for resources will perform poorly as well. The best way to be sure an application will perform correctly is to allocate the virtual machine enough resources to prevent contention. Let’s look at a ...

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