VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7]

Experienced system administrators, system engineers, and system integrators

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 Microsoft ADFS
• 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 of ESXi and VMware vCenter Server®
• Discuss the purpose and capabilities of VMware vSphere® with Kubernetes and how it fits into the VMware Tanzu™ portfolio

You must complete one of the following prerequisites:

• Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] course
• Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server

Experience with working at the command line is highly recommended.

1  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
•  Configure VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ and VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control
•  Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER

4  Host and Management Scalability
•  Use the vSphere Client to manage vSphere certificates
•  Describe identity federation and recognize its use cases
•  Configure identity federation
•  Describe the benefits and use cases of vSphere Trust Authority
•  Configure vSphere Trust Authority
•  Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
•  Manage and update VM templates in content libraries
•  Create and manage resource pools in a cluster

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, 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
•  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

10  Introduction to vSphere with Kubernetes
•  Differentiate between containers and virtual machines
•  Identify the parts of a container system
•  Recognize the basic architecture of Kubernetes
•  Describe a basic Kubernetes workflow
•  Describe the purpose of vSphere with Kubernetes and how it fits into the VMware Tanzu portfolio
•  Explain the vSphere with Kubernetes supervisor cluster
•  Describe the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service