This book, Performance Best Practices for VMware Cloud on AWS, provides performance tips that cover the most performance-critical areas of VMware Cloud® on AWS. It is not intended as a comprehensive guide for planning and configuring your deployments.
Hosts and Virtual Machines, provides guidance regarding VMware Cloud on AWS hosts and the virtual machines that run on them.
Guest Operating Systems, provides guidance regarding the guest operating systems running in vSphere virtual machines.
Virtual Infrastructure Management, provides guidance regarding infrastructure management best practices.
For planning purposes we recommend reading this entire book before beginning a deployment. Material in the Virtual Infrastructure Management chapter, for example, might influence your initial configuration choices.
Intended Audience
This book is intended for system administrators who are planning a VMware Cloud on AWS deployment and want to maximize its performance. The book assumes the reader is already familiar with VMware vSphere concepts and terminology.
Additional Documentation
The most current VMware Cloud on AWS documentation can be found on the VMware Docs site.
You can access performance and other technical papers on the VMware Technical Papers page.
