Multi-Cloud

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

•  Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
•  Use VMware vSphere® Client™ to manage certificates
•  Use Identity Federation to configure VMware vCenter Server® to use external identity sources
•  Use VMware vSphere® Trust Authority™ to secure the infrastructure for encrypted VMs
•  Use host profiles to manage VMware ESXi™ host compliance
•  Create and manage a content library for deploying virtual machines
•  Manage VM resource usage with resource pools
•  Monitor and analyze key performance indicators for compute, storage, and networking resources for ESXi hosts
•  Optimize the performance in the vSphere environment, including vCenter Server

Certifications
Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification:

•  VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)

Course Outline

 Course Introduction
•  Introductions and course logistics
•  Course objectives

2  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 and NetFlow

3  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 VMware vSAN™ storage policies
•  Recognize components of the VMware vSphere® Virtual Volumes™ architecture
•  Configure VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ and VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control

4  Host and Management Scalability
•  Use the vSphere Client to manage vSphere certificates
•  Describe identity federation and recognize its use cases
•  Configure identity federation to allow vCenter Server to use external identity provider
•  Describe the benefits and use cases of vSphere Trust Authority
•  Configure vSphere Trust Authority
•  Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
•  Create a local content library and subscribe to a published content library
•  Deploy VMs from a content library
•  Create and manage resource pools in a cluster
•  Describe how scalable shares work

5  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

6  Memory Optimization
•  Explain ballooning, memory compression, transparent page sharing, and host-swapping techniques for memory reclamation when memory is overcommitted
•  Use esxtop to monitor key memory performance metrics

7  Storage Optimization
•  Describe storage queue types and other factors that affect storage performance
•  Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies
•  Use esxtop to monitor key storage performance metrics

8  Network Optimization
•  Explain performance features of network adapters
•  Explain the performance features of vSphere networking
•  Use esxtop to monitor key network performance metrics

9  vCenter Server Performance Optimization
•  Describe the factors that influence vCenter Server performance
•  Use VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ tools to monitor resource use
Supplemental Content

Appendix A: vSphere Auto Deploy
•  Explain the purpose of VMware vSphere® ESXi ™ Image Builder CLI
•  Explain the purpose of VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™
•  Describe how an autodeployed ESXi host boots
•  Configure a vSphere Auto Deploy environment

Appendix B: vSphere Security
•  Configure ESXi Host Access and Authentication
•  Recognize strategies for securing vSphere components, such as vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines
•  Describe vSphere support for security standards and protocols
•  Describe virtual machine security features
•  Describe the components of a VM encryption architecture
•  Create, manage, and migrate encrypted VMs
•  Encrypt core dumps
•  List VM encryption events and alarms