Duration: 5 Days In this course, you will gain the 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.
What You'll Learn
- 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
Who Needs to Attend
- Experienced system administrators
- Systems engineers
- System integrators
Prerequisites
- Experience working at the command prompt is highly recommended
- Completion of one of the following courses (Or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server):
Follow-On Courses
There are no follow-ons for this course.
Course Outline
1. Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Additional resources
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
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
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
- 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Labs
You will spend approximately 40% of class time completing hands-on labs.
