VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale plus Troubleshooting Fast Track

• Minimum one year of experience using vSphere

This intense, hands-on, training course is a blend of the VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale and VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting classes; it brings the best of each of these advanced courses into a single unique offering that equips experienced VMware administrators with the knowledge to effectively optimize and troubleshoot vSphere at an expert level. It also provides excellent preparation for a variety of vSphere certifications such as the VCP-DCV, VCAP-DCA, and the VCIX-DCV.

1. Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course goals and objectives

2. Performance in a Virtual Environment

• vSphere performance troubleshooting methodology
• Software and hardware virtualization techniques and their effects on performance
• Use vSphere performance monitoring tools

3. Troubleshooting Tools

• Adding the VMware Management Assistant to an Active Directory environment
• Using commands to interrogate your vSphere environment
• Locating important log files
• Gathering log bundles for technical support

4. Secure vSphere

• Features and benefits of VMware Platform Services Controller
• Configure ESXi host access and authorization
• Secure ESXi, vCenter Server, and virtual machines
• Upgrade ESXi and vCenter Server instances

5. Network Scalability

• Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches
• Migrate virtual machines from standard switches to distributed switches
• Distributed switch features such as private VLANs, VMware vSphere Network I/O Control, port mirroring, LACP, QoS tagging, and NetFlow

6. Network Optimization

• Performance features of network adapters
• Performance features of vSphere networking
• Monitor key network performance metrics
• Use vSphere Management Assistant to manage virtual network configurations
• Troubleshoot common network performance problems

7. Network Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting standard switch issues
• Troubleshooting virtual machine network connectivity issues
• Troubleshooting management network connectivity issues
• Troubleshooting distributed switch issues

8. Storage Scalability

• vSphere storage APIs for array integration and storage awareness
• Configure and assign virtual machine storage policies
• Configure VMware vSphere Storage DRS and VMware vSphere Storage I/O Control
• Create and use virtual volumes in vSphere

9. Storage Optimization

• Diagnose storage access problems
• How storage protocols, VMware vSphere VMFS configuration, load balancing, and queuing affect performance
• Configure vSphere Flash Read Cache
• Monitor key storage performance metrics
• Troubleshoot common storage performance problems

10. Storage Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting LUN connectivity issues
• Troubleshooting multi pathing issues

11. CPU Optimization

• CPU scheduler operation, NUMA support, and other features that affect CPU performance
• Monitor key CPU performance metrics
• Troubleshoot common CPU performance problems

12. Memory Optimization

• Ballooning and memory compression
• Host swapping techniques for memory reclamation when memory is overcommitted
• Monitor key memory performance metrics
• Troubleshoot common memory performance problems

13. VM and Cluster Optimization

• Guidelines for optimizing virtual machine configuration
• How vGPU usage affects virtual machine performance
• Guidelines for using resource allocation settings and resource pools
• Guidelines for using vSphere DRS clusters
• Troubleshoot common vSphere cluster problems

14. Cluster Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting vSphere cluster issues
• Troubleshooting vSphere vMotion issues

15. VM Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting virtual machine state issues
• Troubleshooting VMware Tools installation issues
• Troubleshooting VMware snapshot issues
• Troubleshooting virtual machine power-on issues

16. Host Management and Scalability

• Use host profiles
• Use content libraries
• Use VMware vSphere PowerCLI
• Use Virtual Machine Converter
• Use VMware vSphere ESXi Image Builder CLI and vSphere Auto Deploy

17. vCenter Server and ESXi Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting vCenter Server and ESXi issues