Firstly thank you for taking the time to read my VCAP5-DCD guide published by VMware press.
I hope you find it useful for studying towards the exam and in real life projects.
As promised in the guide, this is a hyperlinked version of my recommended reading list.
- Design Best Practices for VMware ThinApp (The Overview of design is excellent. Note the technical content is not aimed at the VCAP5-DCD exam).
- VMware vCloud Implementation – Example White Paper ( This is a great Example of a High Level Design).
- VMware vSphere 5.0 Availability Guide
- VMware vSphere High Availability 5.0 Deployment Best Practices
- Performance Best Practices For VMware vSphere 5.0
- VMware vSphere vMotion Architecture, Performance and Best Practices in VMware vSphere 5
- VMware vSphere 5.0 Upgrade Best Practices
- Installing vCenter Server 5.0 Best Practices (VMware KB:2003790)
- Best practices for installing ESXi 5.0 (VMware KB: 2005099)
- vSphere Networking Guide ( See Page 77)
- Performance Study of VSA in VMware vSphere 5
- Best practices for vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) Networking (VMware KB: 2007363)
- Storage I/O Enhancements in vSphere 5.0
- Tuning ESX/ESXi for better storage performance by modifying the maximum I/O block size (VMware KB:1003469)
- Understanding Memory Management in VMware vSphere 5
- Best Practices for Performance Tuning of Latency-Sensitive Workloads in vSphere VMs
- Impact of virtual machine memory and CPU resource limits (VMware KB:1033115)
- Setup for Failover Clustering and Microsoft Cluster Service
- Microsoft Clustering on VMware vSphere: Guidelines for Supported Configurations (VMware KB:1037959)
- Best practices for vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) Networking (VMware KB: 2007363)
- Verifying correct storage settings on ESX 4.x, ESXi 4.x and ESXi 5.0 (VMware KB: 1020100)
- Best practices when using advanced transport for backup and restore (VMware KB: 1035096)
- Poor network performance or high network latency on Windows virtual machines (VMware KB:2008925)
- Using thin provisioned disks with virtual machines (VMware KB: 1005418)
- Testing virtual machine storage I/O performance (VMware KB: 1006821)