This course, equivalent to 5 days of training, teaches you advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you configure and optimize the VMware vSphere® 7 features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure, and you discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect.
Attend this course to deepen your understanding of vSphere and learn how its advanced features and controls can benefit your organization. As an exclusive benefit, those who participate in this course will receive additional premium recorded lecture material on vSphere security.
Objetivos
- Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
- Use VMware vSphere® Client™ to manage certificates
- Use Identity Federation to configure VMware vCenter Server® to use external identity sources
- Use VMware vSphere® Trust Authority™ to secure the infrastructure for encrypted VMs
- Use host profiles to manage VMware ESXi™ host compliance
- Create and manage a content library for deploying virtual machines
- Manage VM resource usage with resource pools
- Monitor and analyze key performance indicators for compute, storage, and networking resources for ESXi hosts
- Optimize the performance in the vSphere environment, including vCenter Server
Destinatários
Experienced system administrators, system engineers, and system integrators
Pré-Requisitos
You must complete one of the following prerequisites:
• Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course
• Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server
Experience with working at the command line is highly recommended.
Metodologia
Este curso e-learning inclui
- Conteúdos disponíveis 24/7
- 30 dias de duração com assessments e labs
- Exame, válido durante 1 ano, a partir da data em que foi emitido
- Por forma a alcançar melhores resultados na aprendizagem, o formando irá contar com sessões de apoio Rumos em formato síncrono (online em tempo real)
- 1 sessão de Kick Off de 1h para apresentação da plataforma de e-learning em que decorre o curso e esclarecimento de dúvidas sobre a mesma
- 1 sessão de Preparação para Exame de 3h que ocorre 7 dias antes do término do curso
This course is also available in an Instructor-Led Training (ILT) format. For more information, select this link: VMware vSphere Optimize & Scale [V7].
Programa
- Course Introduction
- Network Scalability
- Storage Scalability
- Host and Management Scalability
- CPU Optimization
- Memory Optimization
- Storage Optimization
- Network Optimization
- vCenter Server Performance Optimization
- vSphere Security
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Network Scalability
- Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
- Describe how VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control enhances performance
- Explain distributed switch features such as port mirroring and NetFlow
Storage Scalability
- Explain why VMware vSphere® VMFS is a high-performance, scalable file system
- Explain VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Array Integration, VMware vSphere® API for Storage Awareness™, and vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering
- Configure and assign virtual machine storage policies
- Create vSAN storage policies
- Recognize components of the VMware vSphere® Virtual Volumes™ architecture
- Configure VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ and VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control
Host and Management Scalability
- Use the vSphere Client to manage vSphere certificates
- Describe identity federation and recognize its use cases
- Configure identity federation to allow vCenter Server to use external identity provider
- Describe the benefits and use cases of vSphere Trust Authority
- Configure vSphere Trust Authority
- Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
- Create a local content library and subscribe to a published content library
- Deploy VMs from a content library
- Create and manage resource pools in a cluster
- Describe how scalable shares work
CPU Optimization
- Explain the CPU scheduler operation and other features that affect CPU performance
- Explain NUMA and vNUMA support
- Use esxtop to monitor key CPU performance metrics
Memory Optimization
- Explain ballooning, memory compression, and host-swapping techniques for memory reclamation when memory is overcommitted
- Use esxtop to monitor key memory performance metrics
Storage Optimization
- Describe storage queue types and other factors that affect storage performance
- Use esxtop to monitor key storage performance metrics
Network Optimization
- Explain the performance features of network adapters
- Explain the performance features of vSphere networking
- Use esxtop to monitor key network performance metrics
vCenter Server Performance Optimization
- Describe the factors that influence vCenter Server performance
- Use VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ tools to monitor resource usage
Appendix A: vSphere Auto Deploy
- Explain the purpose of VMware vSphere® ESXi ™ Image Builder CLI
- Explain the purpose of VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™
- Describe how an autodeployed ESXi host boots
- Configure a vSphere Auto Deploy environment
Appendix B: vSphere Security
- Configure ESXi Host Access and Authentication
- Recognize strategies for securing vSphere components, such as vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines
- Describe vSphere support for security standards and protocols
- Describe virtual machine security features
- Describe the components of a VM encryption architecture
- Create, manage, and migrate encrypted VMs
- Encrypt core dumps
- List VM encryption events and alarms
