Course details
This advanced, intensive training course, for experienced VMware® vSphere® personnel, teaches advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. The course is based on VMware ESXi™ 5.0 and VMware vCenter Server™ 5.0. This course prepares the student for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Administration [V5] certification (VCAP5-DCA). Completion of this course also satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware Certified Professional 5 exam. Students who complete this course may enroll in any of several more advanced vSphere courses.
Prerequisites:
Willingness to participate in a demanding, high-intensity training experience and Comfort with system administration using command-line interfaces
Objectives:
At the end of the course, you should be able to do the following:
- Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage for the large and sophisticated enterprise
- Manage changes to the vSphere environment.
- Optimize the performance of vSphere components.
- Troubleshoot faults and identify their root causes.
- Use a command-line interface and the vSphere Management Assistant to manage vSphere.
- Use vSphere Auto Deploy to provision ESXi hosts.
Course Introduction:
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
VMware Management Resources:
- Configure VMware vSphere® Management Assistant (vMA)
- Understand the esxcli and vicfg commands
- Configure ESXi Tech Support Mode and ssh access
- Understand important ESXi and vCenter Server log files
- Configure a centralized ESXi log host
Performance in a Virtualized Environment:
- Understand the vSphere performance troubleshooting methodology
- Understand software and hardware virtualization techniques and their impact on performance
Network Scalability:
- Create, configure, and manage vNetwork Distributed Switches
- Migrate from standard to distributed vswitches
- Use the command-line for network configuration
- Understand vSphere IPv6, SNMP, NetQueue, DirectPath I/O
- Employ PVLANs and Network I/O Control
Network Performance Troubleshooting:
- Configure and use a traffic sniffer
- Understand performance features of network adapters
- Monitor key network performance metrics
- Troubleshoot common network performance problems
Configure and Manage vSphere Storage:
- Configure storage multipathing
- Understand VAAI and VASA
- Explain policy-driven storage
- Add a storage policy to a virtual machine storage profile
- Describe Storage DRS operation
- Configure Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control
Storage Connectivity and Performance Troubleshooting:
- Diagnose storage access problems
- Understand how storage protocols, VMware vStorage VMFS configuration, load balancing, and queuing affect performance
- Monitor key storage performance metrics
- Troubleshoot common storage performance problems
Host and Management Scalability:
- Use Host Profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
- Use vCenter Server Linked Mode to manage multiple vCenter
- Server inventories
- Configure and manage Distributed Power Management
- Understand vSphere Power CLI and customize scripts
- Use vSphere Auto Deploy to provision ESXi hosts
- Use Image Builder to create an ESXi installation image
CPU Performance:
- Understand CPU scheduler and other features that impact
- CPU performance
- Monitor key CPU performance metrics
- Troubleshoot common CPU performance problems
Memory Performance:
- Understand memory reclamation techniques and overcommitment
- Monitor key memory performance metrics
- Troubleshoot common CPU performance problems
VM and Cluster Performance and Troubleshooting:
- Understand performance guidelines for DRS clusters,
- resource pools, and resource allocation settings
- Troubleshoot virtual-machine power-on failures
- Troubleshoot DRS and HA cluster errors
Course Location
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