- 5-day instructor-led training course
- After-course instructor coaching benefit
- Learning Tree end-of-course exam included
#1661
(VOS) VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale Training
Course 1661
- Duration: 5 days
- Language: English
- Level: Foundation
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VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale is designed for experienced VMware vSphere® users. It teaches 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. The course is based on VMware ESXi™ 6 and VMware vCenter Server™ 6.
- Required prerequisites include completion of the following course:
- VMware vSphere 6.0: Fast Track (VVFT)
- Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server
- Experience working at the command prompt is highly recommended.
(VOS) VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale Training Delivery Methods
- After-course instructor coaching benefit
- Learning Tree end-of-course exam included
(VOS) VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale Training Course Benefits
- 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
VOS Training Outline
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Additional 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
- Describe the features and benefits of the Platform Services Controller
- Configure ESXi host access and authorization
- Secure ESXi, vCenter Server, and virtual machines
- Review the vSphere performance troubleshooting methodology
- Explain software and hardware virtualization techniques and their effects on performance
- Use vSphere performance monitoring tools
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Diagnose storage access problems
- Configure VMware vSphere® Flash Read Cache™
- Monitor key storage performance metrics
- Troubleshoot common storage performance problems
- Explain the CPU scheduler operation, NUMA support, and other features that affect CPU performance
- Monitor key CPU performance metrics
- Troubleshoot common CPU performance problems
- 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
- 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
- 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
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