vCloud Director Resource Allocation Models Whitepaper

For those of you who didn’t get the opportunity to attend VMworld 2012 in San Francisco, and missed out on the sessions delivered by Frank Denneman, Chris Colotti, and myself on vCloud Director Allocation Models, and vSphere resource scheduling, don’t worry we got you covered. Frank Denneman (@FrankDenneman) and I delivered the VMworld 2012 session INF-VSP1683 VMware vSphere Cluster Resource Pools Best Practices. Here we discussed various design consideration when using or architecting the foundation of solid cloud environments. Here we got in to details and gotchas about the use of resource pools and functionalities as they related to resource allocation models. The information delivered was extremely important as the building block for vCloud Director Allocation models is based on vSphere Resource pools. This session was nominated as one of VMworld’s 2012 Top 10 sessions.

Another key session on this topic was one delivered by Chris Colotti (@ccolotti) and myself, OPS-CSM1167 Architecting for VMware vCloud Allocation Models. In this session Chris and I discussed the details of the three different allocation models of vCloud Director and explained the affect they have on the vSphere resource scheduling. We talked about and demonstrated examples of use cases for the different allocation models and how to use them. The main goal was to basically demonstrate that by having a solid understanding of the vSphere resource allocation, the logic, understanding and use of vCloud allocation models would be simplified and much easier to understand.

Well… for those unlucky ones that missed out on VMworld 2012 and missed the sessions don’t worry we got you covered. Some of the content that was the basis for the two presentations mentioned above was just published VMware vCloud Director Resource Allocation Models. I got the opportunity to review the document and If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen my tweet about it how exited I was about this paper coming out about two months ago. Frank and Chris did an excellent job with the paper. The way the content and illustrations are delivered tie everything together from the vSphere resource allocation to the vCloud Director allocation model perspective, and how all of that affects VMware HA. The white paper is based on vCloud Director 1.5 but all of the content and information it’s still relevant to vCloud Director 5.1.

This is a document that I would recommend for all vCloud Director architects, and vCloud Director administrators to read, and consume completely. Go Big!

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