VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7]

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® 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.

Who Can Benefit

• Experienced system administrators, system engineers, and system integrators

Skills Gained

• By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• 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

Prerequisites

• You must meet one of the following prerequisites:
• Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] course
• Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server
• Experience with working at the command line is highly recommended.

Course Content

Course Modules

• 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 highperformance, 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
• 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,
• transparent page sharing, 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
• Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER
• technologies
• 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