Duration: 5 days
Official VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale is designed for experienced VMware vSphere® users. It teaches advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure.
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Description
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 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. The course is based on VMware ESXi™ 6 and VMware vCenter Server™ 6.
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 enterprise
- Manage changes to the vSphere environment
- Optimize the performance of all vSphere components
- Harden the vSphere environment against security threats
- Troubleshoot operational faults and identify their root causes
- Use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Shell and VMware vSphere® Management Assistant to manage vSphere
- Use VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to provision ESXi hosts
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Additional resources
Lesson 2: VMware Management Resources
- Understand the purpose of VMware vSphere® Command-Line Interface commands
- Discuss options for running vSphere CLI commands
- Deploy and configure vSphere Management Assistant
- Use vmware-cmd for virtual machine operations
Lesson 3: vSphere Security
- Describe the features and benefits of the Platform Services Controller
- Configure ESXi host access and authorization
- Secure ESXi, vCenter Server, and virtual machines
Lesson 4: Performance in a Virtualized Environment
- Review the vSphere performance troubleshooting methodology
- Explain software and hardware virtualization techniques and their effects on performance
- Use vSphere performance monitoring tools
Lesson 5: Network Scalability
- Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches
- Migrate virtual machines from standard switches to distributed switches
- Explain distributed switch features such as port mirroring, LACP, QoS tagging, and NetFlow
Lesson 6: Network Performance Troubleshooting
- Explain the performance features of network adapters
- Explain the performance features of vSphere networking
- Monitor key network performance metrics
- Use vSphere Management Assistant to manage virtual network configurations
- Troubleshoot common network performance problems
Lesson 7: 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
Lesson 8: Storage Optimization
- Diagnose storage access problems
- Configure VMware vSphere® Flash Read Cache™
- Monitor key storage performance metrics
- Troubleshoot common storage performance problems
Lesson 9: CPU Performance
- Explain the CPU scheduler operation, NUMA support, and other features that affect CPU performance
- Monitor key CPU performance metrics
- Troubleshoot common CPU performance problems
Lesson 10: Memory Performance
- Explain ballooning, memory compression, and host swapping techniques for memory reclamation when memory is overcommitted
- Monitor key memory performance metrics
- Troubleshoot common memory performance problems
Lesson 11: Virtual Machine and Cluster Optimization
- Describe guidelines for optimizing virtual machine configuration
- Discuss how vGPU usage affects virtual machine performance
- Discuss guidelines for using resource allocation settings
- Discuss guidelines for using resource pools
- Discuss guidelines for using vSphere DRS clusters
- Troubleshoot common vSphere cluster problems
Lesson 12: Host and Management Scalability
- Describe and use host profiles
- Define and use content libraries
- Upgrade ESXi and vCenter Server instances
- Use VMware vSphere® PowerCLI™
- Use Virtual Machine Converter
- Use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Image Builder CLI and vSphere Auto Deploy
Prerequisites
Completion of one of the following courses:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [5.5 or 6]
- VMware vSphere: Fast Track
Or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server.
Experience working at the command prompt is highly recommended.
Target audience
- Experienced system administrators
- Systems engineers
- System integrators
