Course Outline
VMware vSphere: Optimise & Scale v6.7
This is a 5 day, instructor-led course.
This five-day course 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® 6.7 features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure, and you discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course deepens your understanding of vSphere and how its advanced features and controls can benefit your organization.
Upon successful completion of this course, delegates will have the skills necessary to:
• Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
• Use VMware vSphere® Client™, VMware vSphere® Web Client, and VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Shell to
manage vSphere
• Create a content library for deploying virtual machines
• Use VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ and host profiles to provision VMware ESXi™ hosts and manage
ESXi host compliance
• Monitor and analyze key performance indicators for compute, storage, and networking resources for ESXi
hosts
• Optimize the performance of ESXi and VMware vCenter Server®
• Harden the vSphere environment against security threats
• Encrypt virtual machines for additional security
- System administrators
- System engineers
You must complete one of the following prerequisites:
• Have attended and Understood the concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage v6.7 course
• Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server
VMware vSphere: Optimise & Scale v6.7
This is a 5 day, instructor-led course.
This five-day course 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® 6.7 features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure, and you discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course deepens your understanding of vSphere and how its advanced features and controls can benefit your organization.
Upon successful completion of this course, delegates will have the skills necessary to:
• Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
• Use VMware vSphere® Client™, VMware vSphere® Web Client, and VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Shell to
manage vSphere
• Create a content library for deploying virtual machines
• Use VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ and host profiles to provision VMware ESXi™ hosts and manage
ESXi host compliance
• Monitor and analyze key performance indicators for compute, storage, and networking resources for ESXi
hosts
• Optimize the performance of ESXi and VMware vCenter Server®
• Harden the vSphere environment against security threats
• Encrypt virtual machines for additional security
You must complete one of the following prerequisites:
• Have attended and Understood the concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage v6.7 course
• Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server
Course Contents
Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
Identify additional resources for after this course
Identify other VMware Education offerings
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, LACP, QoS tagging, 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
Configure VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ and VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control
Host and Management Scalability
Define and use content libraries
Describe and use host profiles
Describe and use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Image Builder CLI and vSphere Auto Deploy
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
vSphere Security
Configure ESXi host access and authorization
Secure ESXi, vCenter Server, and virtual machines
Use VMware Certificate Authority to configure vSphere certificate management
Configure vSphere to encrypt virtual machines, core dumps and VMware vSphere® vMotion® migrations
Price per delegate
£3495
Scheduled Classes
Indicia Training, Glasgow:
Please complete the contact form below or call 0141 221 5676 for further course information and available dates.
Alternatively you can email us at info@indiciatraining.com