VMware vSphere Best Practices and Nutanix Best Practices
Nutanix Best Practices
- Xi Connectivity Best Practice Guide
- DR and Backup Tech note
- XI Active Directory Protection
- Epic Hyperspace on Nutanix
- Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop on Nutanix
- Virtualizing Cisco Unified Communications
- Hyper-V Windows Server 2016 Storage
- Nutanix Volumes
- Nutanix Flash Mode
- Running SAP on Nutanix
- SAP HANA on Nutanix
- Nutanix ROBO Deployment and Operations
- Nutanix and Veeam Backup & Replication for vSphere: Best Practices
- Microsoft SQL Server on Nutanix: Best Practices
- VMware View on Nutanix: Best Practices
- Nutanix Best Practices Guide for Microsoft Lync
- Nutanix Best Practices for Cisco Unified Communications
- Nutanix Best Practices Guide: Deploying Distributed File System on Web-scale Converged Infrastructure
- Nutanix Best Practices Guide: Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange on Web-Scale Converged Infrastructure
- Nutanix Best Practices Guide: Virtualizing Oracle Databases on Web-Scale Converged Infrastructure
- Nutanix Acropolis Best Practice Guide
- Nutanix Best Practise for Docker containers on Acropolis
- Nutanix Best Pactice – Microsoft Exchange on Acropolis
- Hyper-V Windows Server 2012 R2 netowrking – Best Practice on Nutanix
- Virtualizing Microsoft Lync Server 2013
VMware vSphere Best Practices
Best Practice for vSphere 6.X
- VMware vCenter Server 6.0 Performance and Best Practices
- Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 6.0
- Installing vCenter Server 6.0 best practices
Best Practice for vSphere 5.X
vCenter Server 5.X Best Practices
- Installing vCenter Server 5.5 best practices
- Upgrading to vCenter Server 5.5 best practices
- vSphere 5.X upgrade guide
- Upgrade vCenter server to vSphere 5.1 Best Practice
- Upgrade vCenter server to vSphere 5.0 Best Practice
vCloud Director 5.X Best Practices
- Upgrading to VMware vCloud Director 5.5.x best practices
- Installing VMware vCloud Director 5.5.x best practices
- Upgrading to VMware vCloud Director 5.5.x best practices
- Installing vCloud Director 5.1 Best Practices
- VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Performance and Best Practices
vCloud Networking and Security 5.X Best Practices
- Installing VMware vCloud Networking and Security 5.5.x best practices
- Best practices for upgrading to VMware vCloud Networking and Security 5.5
VMware HA vSphere 5 Best Practices
Performance vSphere 5 Best Practices
vCenter vSphere 5.1 DataBase Perfomance Best Practice
Distributed Switches vSphere 5 Best Practices
VMware vSphere Autodeploy
VMware Update Manager vSphere 5 Best Practices
VMware HorizonView 5.x
- VMware Horizon View 5.2 Performance and Best Practices
- VMware View performance case study Best Practice
- VMware View 5.1 architecture planning
- VMware View backup best practices
- VMware View AntyVirus best practices
- VMware View storage consideration
MS Exchange 2010
Active Direcotry
Oracle RAC on vSphere 5 Best Practices
vCloud Director
- VMware vCloud Director 1.5 Performance and Best Practices
- Installing vCloud director – Best Practice
Storage
- iSCSI storage VMware vSphere Best Practices
- VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster Case Study
- NFS Best Practices – Official VMware white paper
- NFS Best Practices – Part 1: Networking
- NFS Best Practices – Part 2: Advance Settings
- NFS Best Practices – Part 3: Interoperability Considerations
- NFS Best Practices – Part 4: Sizing considerations
- Nimble Storage vSphere 5 Best Practices
- NetApp’s NFS Best Practices TR-3749
- EMC Isilon’s vSphere 5 Reference Architecture
- HDS vSphere 5 Reference Architecture
- Chad Sakac (virtual geek) multi-vendor NFS blog post
- VMware vSphere 5.5 vMotion on EMC VPLEX Metro Performance and Best Practices
- Using VMware vSphere w/ EMC VPLEX Best Practices Planning
VMFS file system best practices
Security
Best Practice for vSphere 4.X
vSphere 4.x security hardening
- Security hardening vSphere 4.1 http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10198
- Security hardening vSphere 4.0 http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10109
Microsoft Exchange 2007
Common Best Practice (vSphere 4 and vSphere 5)
Virtual Distributed Switches
- VMware® Network I/O Control: Architecture, Performance and Best Practices
- Virtual Distributed Switches Best Practice
Virtual machine Best Practice on vSphere
- virtual machine file systems best practice
- performance latency sensitive workloads
- Timekeeping on virtual machine
Active Directory -Best Practice
SQL – Best Practice on vSphere
- SQL Server on VMware – Availability and Recovery Options
- SQL Server on VMware – Best Practices Guide
Oracle – Best Practice on vSphere
- Oracle Databases on VMware – High Availability Guidelines
- Oracle Databases on VMware – Best Practices Guide
Exchange – Best Practice on vSphere
Java – Best Practice on vSphere
- Enterprise Java Applications on VMware – High Availability Guidelines
- Enterprise Java Applications on VMware – Best Practices Guide
SAP- Best Practice on vSphere
APPENDIX:
- Feb 23’rd 2013 – version 1
- June 15’th 2014 – Nutanix Best Practies added
- July 22’nd 2016 – Nutanix and VMware BP updates
- Nov 30’th 2018 added:
- SAP and SAP HANA
- Volumes
- Xi leap
- Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop
- Epic hyperspace
- Cisco Unified Communication
