VMware vSphere: Advanced Fast Track

OVERVIEW

This fast-paced, extended-hour, lab-intensive course includes the content of the VMware vSphere: Manage for Performance and VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting courses. This course provides the knowledge and skills necessary to make fundamental design decisions that enhance performance and meet performance goals in a deployed VMware vSphere™ installation. This course also provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the vSphere virtual infrastructure.This course is 35% lecture, and 65% hands-on lab.

AUDIENCE

System administrators, systems engineers, consultants, or help desk personnel who need the knowledge, skills, and abilities to troubleshoot performance, configuration, or operational problems in vSphere deployments.

PREREQUISITES

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (H9P76S)
• VMware vSphere: What’s New (H9P75S)

COURSE OBJECTIVES

At the end of the course, you will be able to do the following:

• Use vSphere tools to monitor the performance of VMware ESX™/ESXi hosts
• Diagnose performance problems relating to CPU, memory, network, and storage on an ESX/ESXi host
• Apply guidelines for monitoring application performance
• Use the VMware vSphere Client and command-line utilities to diagnose and rectify ESX/ESXi, VMware vMotion™, VMware Storage vMotion, VMware High Availability, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler, and virtual machine power-on problems
• Use ESXi technical support mode to diagnose and rectify problems on ESXi
• Create and use a network packet capture utility to capture and display virtual switch network traffic

DETAILED COURSE OUTLINE

Manage for Performance Modules

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Module 2: Performance in a Virtualized Environment

• Discuss the vSphere performance troubleshooting methodology
• Discuss software and hardware virtualization techniques and their impact on performance
• Monitor performance using vCenter Server performance charts and the ESX/ESXi resxtop command

Module 3: CPU Performance

• Discuss the CPU scheduler and other features that have an impact on CPU performance
• Monitor key CPU performance metrics
• Troubleshoot common CPU performance problems

Module 4: Memory Performance

• Discuss memory reclamation techniques and memory overcommitment
• Monitor key memory performance metrics
• Troubleshoot common memory performance problems

Module 5: Guidelines for DRS and Resource Controls

• Discuss performance guidelines for DRS clusters, resource pools, and resource allocation settings

Module 6: Network Performance

• Discuss the performance features of modern network adapters
• Monitor key network performance metrics
• Troubleshoot common network performance problems

Module 7: Storage Performance

• Discuss how storage protocols, VMware vStorage VMFS configuration, load balancing, and queuing affect performance
• Monitor key storage performance metrics
• Troubleshoot common storage performance problems

Module 8: Virtual Machine Performance

• Discuss guidelines for configuring a virtual machine for optimal performance

Module 9: Application Performance

• Discuss tools and guidelines for application performance

Troubleshooting Modules

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Module 2: ESXi Command-Line Troubleshooting Methods

• Install and use the VMware vSphere Management Assistant
• Learn common vSphere command-line interface commands and syntax
• Configure ESXi technical support mode and Secure Shell (SSH) access

Module 3: ESX, ESXi, and vCenter Server Log Files

• View ESX, ESXi, and vCenter Server log files
• Configure a centralized ESX/ESXi log host

Module 4: Network Troubleshooting

• Identify and configure vNetwork components
• Configure and use a network traffic packet capture utility

Module 5: Management Troubleshooting

• Troubleshoot vSphere management components

Module 6: Storage Troubleshooting

• View, configure, and diagnose storage access problems
• Configure iSCSI authentication and digests

Module 7: vMotion Troubleshooting

• Troubleshoot vMotion and Storage vMotion errors

Module 8: VMware Infrastructure Troubleshooting

• Troubleshoot DRS cluster errors with shares, pools, and limits
• Troubleshoot VMware HA cluster errors with slot calculations, admission control, and host monitoring
• Review virtual machine power on requirements
• Troubleshoot virtual machine power on failures

Module 9: vSphere 4 DRS Cluster Troubleshooting

• Complete a final multihour, multiproblem troubleshooting exercise

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For whom it is intended:

• Presale/consultant
• System administrator
• System engineer