VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [v7]
This five-day course teaches advanced skills for setting up and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lectures and hands-on labs, you configure and optimize the VMware vSphere® 7 features that form the foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure, and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect.
Take this course to deepen your understanding of vSphere and learn how its advanced features and controls can benefit your organization.
COD: VSOS7
Categorie: VMware
Teaching methodology
The course includes educational laboratories in which each student will be able to work in order to complete training exercises that will provide practical experience in using the instrument, for each of the topics covered during the course.
Who should participate
Experienced system administrators, system engineers and system integrators
Prerequisites
- Understanding of the concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] course .
- Equivalent administrative knowledge and experience with ESXi and vCenter Server.
- Experience using the command line is highly recommended
Outgoing knowledge/skills
- Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large, 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 infrastructure for encrypted virtual machines.
- Use host profiles to manage compliance of VMware ESXi™ hosts.
- Create and manage a content library for deploying virtual machines.
- Manage resource usage of virtual machines with resource pools
- Monitor and analyze key performance indicators for compute, storage and network resources for ESXi hosts.
- Optimize the performance of the vSphere environment, including vCenter Server.
Participation in this course meets the training requirements for the following certification:
- VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)
Educational program
1 Introduction to the course
- Introduction and logistics of the course
- Objectives of the course
2 Scalability of the network
- Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
- Describe how VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control improves performance.
- Explain the features of distributed switches, such as port mirroring and NetFlow.
3 Scalability of storage
- Explain why VMware vSphere® VMFS is a high performance and scalable file system.
- Spiegare le API per lo storage di VMware vSphere® – Array Integration, VMware vSphere® API for Storage Awareness™ e vSphere API for I/O filtering.
- Configure and assign virtual machine storage policies
- Create VMware vSAN storage policies
- Recognize the components of the VMware vSphere® Virtual Volumes™ architecture.
- Configurare VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ e VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control.
4 Scalability of hosting and management
- Use vSphere Client to manage vSphere certificates.
- Describe identity federation and recognize its use cases.
- Configure identity federation to allow vCenter Server to use an external identity provider.
- Describe the benefits and use cases of vSphere Trust Authority
- Configure vSphere Trusted Authority
- Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
- Create a local content library and subscribe to a published content library
- Deploy virtual machines from a content library
- Create and manage resource pools in a cluster
- Describe how scalable shares work
5 CPU optimization
- Explain the operation of the CPU scheduler and other features that affect CPU performance.
- Explain NUMA and vNUMA support
- Use esxtop to monitor key CPU performance metrics.
6 Memory optimization
- Explain the techniques of ballooning, memory compression, transparent page sharing, and host-swapping for memory overload reclamation.
- Use esxtop to monitor key memory performance metrics.
7 Storage Optimization
- Describe the types of storage queues and other factors that affect storage performance.
- Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies.
- Use esxtop to monitor key storage performance metrics.
8 Network Optimization
- Explain the performance characteristics of network adapters
- Explain the performance characteristics of the vSphere network
- Use esxtop to monitor key network performance metrics.
- 9 Optimizing vCenter Server performance
- Describe the factors that affect vCenter Server performance
- Use VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ tools to monitor resource usage.
Supplemental Content
Appendix A: Automated Deployment of vSphere
- Explain the purpose of the VMware vSphere® ESXi ™ Image Builder CLI.
- Explain the purpose of VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™
- Describe how to boot a self-deployed ESXi host
- Configure a vSphere Auto Deploy environment
Appendix B: vSphere Security
- Configuring access and authentication of ESXi hosts
- Recognize strategies for protecting vSphere components such as vCenter Servers, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines.
- Describe vSphere’s support for security standards and protocols.
- Describe the security features of virtual machines
- Describe the components of a virtual machine encryption architecture.
- Create, manage and migrate encrypted virtual machines.
- Encrypt core dumps
- List virtual machine encryption events and alarms
Duration – 5 days
Delivery – in Classroom, On Site, Remote
PC and SW requirements:
- Internet connection
- Web browser, Google Chrome
- Zoom
Language
Instructor: English
Labs: English
Slides: English
