VMware vSphere 5.5: Optimize and Scale

Course details

This 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™5.5 and VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.5.

This course prepares the student for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Datacenter Administration [V5] certification (VCAP5-DCA). Completion of this course also satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware® Certified Professional 5 exam.

Aims & Objectives

• Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
• Manage changes to the vSphere environment
• Optimize the performance of all vSphere components
• Troubleshoot operational faults and identify their root causes
• Use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Shell and VMware
• vSphere® Management Assistant to manage vSphere
• Use VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to provision ESXi hosts
• Note: About one-third of the VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5.5] course content is repeated in this course. The scalability topics in VMware vSphere: Fast Track are repeated in this course

Content

• Course Introduction
• VMware Management Resources
• Performance in a Virtualized Environment
• Network Scalability
• Network Optimization
• Storage Scalability
• Storage Optimization
• CPU Optimization
• Memory Optimization
• Virtual Machine and Cluster Optimization
• Host and Management Scalability

Prerequisites

Completion of one of the following courses:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5]
• VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5.5]
• VMware vSphere: Fast Track
• Or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server Experience working at the command prompt is highly recommended

Who should attend?

• Experienced system administrators
• Systems engineers
• System integrators