VMware vSphere 6.5: Optimize and Scale

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  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London-city

This five-day course will teach you advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you will configure and optimize the vSphere features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure, and you will discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. Anyone who is ready to take their understanding of vSphere to a deeper level and learn how to use advanced features and controls will greatly benefit from this course.

Note: This course is based on beta software.

Product Alignment ESXi 6.5vCenter Server 6.5 Intended Audience  
Experienced system administrators, System engineers, System integrators Learning Objectives By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives: Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterpriseManage changes to the vSphere environmentOptimize the performance of all vSphere componentsHarden the vSphere environment against security threatsUse VMware vSphere® Client™, VMware vSphere® Web Client, and VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Shell to manage vSphereUse VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to provision ESXi hostsUse VMware vRealize® Log Insight™ to monitor system logsDeploy VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ to be highly available and optimized for performance

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Start date

London-City ((select))
EC3V 9LJ

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On request

About this course

This course requires completion of one of the following prerequisites: Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.5] courseEquivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter ServerExperience with working at the command prompt is highly recommended

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  • Server

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Outline

  1. Course Introduction
    • Introductions and course logistics
    • Course objectives
    • Identify additional resources for after this course
    • Identify other VMware Education offerings
  2. Network Scalability
    • Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
    • Explain distributed switch features such as port mirroring, LACP, QoS tagging, and NetFlow
  3. Storage Scalability
    • Explain vSphere storage APIs for array integration and storage awareness
    • Configure and assign virtual machine storage policies
    • Configure VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ and VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control
    • Create and use virtual volumes in vSphere
  4. Host and Management Scalability
    • Explain the uses of VMware vCenter® Converter™
    • Define and use content libraries
    • Describe and use host profiles
    • Describe and use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Image Builder CLI and vSphere Auto Deploy
  5. CPU Optimization
    • Explain the CPU scheduler operation, NUMA support, and other features that affect CPU performance
    • Use esxtop to monitor key CPU performance metrics
  6. Memory Optimization
    • Explain ballooning, memory compression, and host-swapping techniques for memory reclamation when memory is overcommitted
    • Use esxtop to monitor key memory performance metrics
  7. Storage Optimization
    • Describe factors that affect storage performance
    • Use esxtop to monitor key storage performance metrics
  8. Network Optimization
    • Explain the performance features of network adapters
    • Explain the performance features of vSphere networking
    • Use esxtop to monitor key network performance metrics
  9. Analyzing vSphere
    • Explain how Proactive DRS enhances virtual machine availability
    • Use vRealize Log Insight to identify and troubleshoot issues
  10. vCenter Server Availability and Performance
    • Explain the native high availability feature of vCenter Server and VMware Platform Services Controller™
    • Configure vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller high availability
    • Understand what factors influence vCenter Server performance
  11. vSphere Security
    • Configure ESXi host access and authorization
    • Secure ESXi, vCenter Server, and virtual machines
    • Use VMware Certificate Authority to configure vSphere certificate management
    • Configure vSphere to encrypt virtual machines, core dumps, and VMware vSphere® vMotion®

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