VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6.5]

Course details

• 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