Episode 29 — Hypervisor Concepts — Affinity, Anti-Affinity, and Cluster Planning
In this episode, we dive into hypervisor-level strategies that influence workload placement and performance. Affinity rules are explained as methods to keep related workloads together for performance or licensing reasons, while anti-affinity rules are used to separate workloads to improve redundancy and fault tolerance. We also cover cluster planning, including capacity considerations, resource pooling, and failover configurations.
Real-world examples illustrate how these concepts can prevent service interruptions or optimize resource usage in virtualized environments. For the Cloud+ exam, understanding how to apply these rules to given scenarios is essential for demonstrating architectural proficiency. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, your source for more prepcasts, books, and virtualization planning resources.