This official VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6.7] 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® 6.7 features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure, and you discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course deepens your understanding of vSphere and how its advanced features and controls can benefit your organization.
Plus, this course prepares you for VMware Certified Professional 6.5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6.5-DCV) certification exam.
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Important VMware vSphere Optimize and Scale Course Information
Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server
Exam Information
This course prepares you for the following certification: VMware Certified Professional 6.5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6.5-DCV)
Who Should Attend
Experienced system administrators, system engineers, and system integrators
VMware vSphere Optimize and Scale Course Outline
Course Introduction
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
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Sep 23 - 27
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