VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6]

Overview:

vSphere® users. It teaches 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 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.

Duration:

05 days (40 hours)

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

Intended Audience:

- Experienced system administrators

- Systems engineers

- System integrators

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.

Course outlines:

1. Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
Additional resources

2. vSphere Security

Describe the features and benefits of VMware Platform Services Controller™
Configure ESXi host access and authorization
Secure ESXi, vCenter Server, and virtual machines
Upgrade ESXi and vCenter Server instances

3. 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

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

5. Network Scalability

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

6. Network Optimization

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

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

8. Storage Optimization

Diagnose storage access problems
Configure VMware vSphere® Flash Read Cache™
Monitor key storage performance metrics
Troubleshoot common storage performance problems

9. CPU Optimization

Explain the CPU scheduler operation, NUMA support, and other features that affect CPU performance
Monitor key CPU performance metrics
Troubleshoot common CPU performance problems

10. Memory Optimization

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

11. Virtual Machine and Cluster Optimization