We are excited to announce the release of a paper detailing the best practices for deploying enterprise Java applications on VMware, including key considerations for architecture, performance, design and sizing, and high availability. This information should help the IT professionals to successfully deploy and run Java environments on VMware vSphere™.
More than 50% of enterprise applications are written in Java and were deployed in the last 5-25 years. Today, JVM deployment environments are thriving. Typical enterprise Java application are multitiered and multi-organizational; therefore, a change in one tier often causes a ripple effect across all tiers. The decisions related to these changes affect multiple organizations of an enterprise. A highly scalable and robust Java application has all of these tiers running in VMware vSphere in order to reach full benefits of scalability features offered by vSphere.
Architectural staff may utilize this document to gain an understanding of how a system works while the design and implementation of various components take place. Engineers and Application Platform teams may also find this document useful as a catalog of technical capabilities. The following topics are covered:
- Design and sizing of VMs,
- Guest OS recommendations,
- Fine tuning of CPU, memory, storage, networking,
- Useful JVM (Java Virtual Machine) tuning parameters,
- Various high availability features in vSphere ESXI host clusters,
- Resource pools (horizontal scalability and vertical scalability),
- VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).
Download this paper, titled Best Practices for Enterprise Java Applications Running on VMware, for all the details.
About the Authors
This document would not have been possible without the help from Dan Linsley, Application Platform Architect, VMware Office of the CTO and Brett Guarino, VCDX, a Senior Technical Instructor at VMware.
