VMware vSphere: Optimize & Scale [V5.5]

COURSE OVERVIEW

This training course, for experienced VMware vSphere® personnel, teaches advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. The course is based on VMware® ESXi™ 5.5 and VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.5. This course prepares the student for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Datacenter Administration [V5] certification (VCAP5-DCA). Completion of this course also satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware® Certified Professional 5 exam. This course is 60% lecture and 40% hands-on lab.

PREREQUISITES

Completion of one of the following courses:

• VMware vSphere v5.5: Install, Configure, Manage [H6D01S]
• VMware vSphere V5.5: Whats New [H6D00S]
• Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server

Experience working at the command prompt is highly recommended.

AUDIENCE

• Experienced system administrators
• Systems engineers
• System integrators

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of the course, you should be able to do the following:

• 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
• 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

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Module 2: VMware Management Resources

• Deploy and configure vSphere Management Assistant
• Configure ESXi technical support mode and SSH access
• Use the esxcli, vicfg, and vmware-cmd commands
• Review ESXi and vCenter Server log files

Module 3: 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

Module 4: Network Scalability

• Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches
• Migrate virtual machines from standard switches to distributed switches
• Explain distributed switch features such as private VLANs, VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control, port mirroring, LACP, QoS tagging, and NetFlow

Module 5: 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

Module 6: 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

Module 7: Storage Optimization

• Diagnose storage access problems
• Explain how storage protocols, VMware vSphere® VMFS configuration, load balancing, and queuing affect performance
• Configure vSphere® Flash Read Cache™
• Monitor key storage performance metrics
• Use vSphere Management Assistant to manage virtual storage
• Troubleshoot common storage performance problems

Module 8: 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

Module 9: 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

Module 10: Virtual Machine and Cluster Optimization

• Describe performance guidelines for virtual machines, resource allocation settings, VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters, resource pools, and VMware vSphere® High Availability admission control policies
• Troubleshoot virtual machine power-on failures
• Troubleshoot vSphere cluster problems

Module 11: Host and Management Scalability

• Explain VMware vSphere® Distributed Power Management™
• Use Host Profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
• Use VMware vSphere® PowerCLI™ to perform vSphere administrative tasks
• Use Image Builder to create an ESXi installation image
• Use vSphere Auto Deploy to provision ESXi hosts

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For whom it is intended:

• System administrator
• System engineer