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Virtualisation 2.0 pour les nuls (en anglais)

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71 ✓ The virtual network adapter can also affect perfor- mance, so try disabling or enabling interrupt coalesc- ing on NICs and see how performance is affected. Enable Advanced Features for Performance and Availability Once migration is complete, verify that all of your virtual machines are powered on and connected to the network, and that you've distributed virtual machines to optimize your use of your server hardware. With your virtualization platform deployed, it's time to leverage the power of Virtualization 2.0 management tools. Here's where you should start: ✓ Configure advanced features of your virtualization plat- form, including High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler, vMotion, and advanced virtual networking options such as a distributed virtual switch. These soft- ware-defined availability features can greatly simplify administration, reduce planned and unplanned down- time, and lay the groundwork for your virtualization platform to begin intelligently managing itself. ✓ Enable your virtualization management platform, ensuring that your monitoring and capacity planning capabilities are collecting data. A good Virtualization 2.0 management platform uses complex learning algo- rithms to 'learn' your environment, so it may take some time for those algorithms to accurately differentiate normal behavior from anomalies and send smart alerts only for real problems. ✓ Adjust thresholds for your management platform to match your organization's requirements, SLAs and per- formance expectations. Build dashboards to show your

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