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VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale
Description
VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale Introduction
Welcome to the VMware vSphere: Optimize And Scale course, where you can elevate your VMware vSphere skills with a focus on VMware vSphere Client.
In this comprehensive course, you’ll start by exploring the intricacies of advanced resource management and monitoring. Learn how to configure and manage resource pools and understand the critical aspects of storage and network optimization in a virtualized environment.
We’ll also dive deep into vSphere’s Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), teaching you how to ensure optimal resource distribution and load balancing across your virtual machines.
Moving forward, the course will cover essential security and compliance aspects of managing a vSphere environment. Gain insights into securing your virtual machines and hosts, implementing vSphere security best practices, and understanding the role of vCenter Server in maintaining a secure environment.
We’ll also discuss advanced topics like automating tasks with PowerCLI, enabling and managing vSphere High Availability and Fault Tolerance, and optimizing VM performance.
By the end of this course, you will be equipped with the skills to troubleshoot and scale your virtual environment, ensuring it meets the evolving demands of your organization.
Course Objectives
- Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for large enterprises using the VMware vSphere Client.
- Implement Identity Federation to configure VMware vCenter Server with Microsoft ADFS.
- Use VMware vSphere Trust Authority to secure your infrastructure for encrypted VMs.
- Efficiently manage VMware ESXi host compliance using host profiles.
- Create and manage a content library for deploying virtual machines.
- Manage VM resource utilization through resource pools.
- Monitor and analyze key performance indicators for computing, storage, and networking resources on ESXi hosts.
- Optimize the performance of ESXi and VMware vCenter Server.
- Explore the purpose and capabilities of VMware vSphere with Kubernetes and its role in the VMware Tanzu portfolio.
Prerequisites
Before enrolling in this course, participants should meet 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.
- Highly recommended: Experience with command-line operations.
Audience
This course is tailored for the following professionals:
- Experienced system administrators.
- System engineers.
- System integrators.
VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale Outline
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 VMware vSAN™ storage policies
- Configure VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ and VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control
- Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER
Host and Management Scalability
- Use the vSphere Client to manage vSphere certificates
- Describe identity federation and recognize its use cases
- Configure identity federation
- Describe the benefits and use cases of vSphere Trust Authority
- Configure vSphere Trust Authority
- Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
- Manage and update VM templates in content libraries
- Create and manage resource pools in a cluster
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 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 use
Introduction to vSphere with Kubernetes
- Differentiate between containers and virtual machines
- Identify the parts of a container system
- Recognize the basic architecture of Kubernetes
- Describe a basic Kubernetes workflow
- Describe the purpose of vSphere with Kubernetes and how it fits into the VMware Tanzu portfolio
- Explain the vSphere with Kubernetes supervisor cluster
- Describe the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service
$4625.00
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5 Days Course |