VMware ® vSphere: What's New v5.5 to v6.0

Course details

In this course, students will explore the newest features and enhancements in VMware vCenter Server™ 6 and VMware ESXi™ 6. This class is recommended for customers who want to deploy vSphere 6 into their existing vSphere environment.

Course Outline

1 - Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course goals and objectives
• Online vSphere resources
• Location of online vSphere documentation

2 - Introduction to vSphere 6

• Discuss vSphere 6 feature enhancements
• Discuss vSphere 6 installation and upgrade differences
• Describe and apply ESXi lockdown mode
• Discuss and apply ESXi account management
• Discuss the integration and benefits of VMware vCloud® Air™

3 - vCenter Server 6

• Discuss the new features and benefits of vCenter Server 6
• Use the new installation process to deploy vCenter Server
• Apply vCenter Server configuration maximums
• Use Platform Services Controller to manage system services
• Use VMware Certificate Authority and VMware Endpoint Certificate Services to manage certificate lifecycles
• Use the vSphere Web Client to apply enhanced performance configurations

4 - Virtual Machine Enhancements

• Use virtual hardware version 11 enhancements to virtual machines in the vSphere 6 release

5 - Management Enhancements

• Discuss VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control features
• Describe changes between Network I/O Control version 2 and Network I/O Control version 3
• Apply virtual machine and distributed switch bandwidth configuration changes to increase performance
• Describe IPv6 use cases in the vSphere environment

6 - Storage Enhancements

• Define key storage security enhancements made to the storage stack supported by vSphere 6
• Discuss changes in lease management, share reservation, and authentication Remote Procedure Call authentication brought by the vSphere NFS 4.1 client for datastores
• Describe and apply disk and storage bandwidth configuration to improve performance
• Describe the difference between VMware Virtual SAN™ version 1 and Virtual SAN version 2
• Create virtual machine storage policies
• Create fault domains
• Describe the ways that Virtual Volumes changes how virtual machine storage is presented and managed
• Create, discover, and connect to storage containers

7 - Network Enhancements

• Discuss Network I/O Control features
• Describe changes between Network I/O Control version 2 and version 3
• Discuss virtual machine and distributed switch bandwidth configuration changes to increase performance
• Discuss IPv6 use cases in the vSphere environment

8 - Scalability Enhancements

• Discuss and apply vSphere DRS enhancements
• Discuss and apply vSphere Storage DRS enhancements

9 - Availability Enhancements

• Configure cross-vCenter Server system migration
• Discuss multiprocessor fault tolerance features in vSphere 6
• Discuss enhancements to App HA in vSphere 6