VMwa r e
vSph er e: Optim iz e and Scale
Course Overview
Deli ver y Method s
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Instructor-led training Liveonline
Onsite training
Cou r se Du r ation Five days of instructor-led training 60% lecture, 40% hands-on lab
Ta r get
Audience
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Course Objectives By the the end of the the c cour our se, you you s should hould be able t able to o do do t the he f ollowing: ollowing:
Pr er equ isite s Completion of one of the following courses:
Configure, Manage [V5.5]
VMware vSphere: Install,
VMware vSphere: What’ What’s New [V5.5]
VMware vSphere: Fast Track
Or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server Experience working at the command prompt is highly recommended.
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Troubles roubleshoo hoott operat operational f aults aults and ident identify their root root cau aus ses Use VMware vSphere vSphere® ® ESXi ESXi™ Shell and
This course prepares you for the f ollowing ollowing certification:
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VMware vS Mware vSphere phere Management Management Assi Assistan stantt to to manage vS manage vSphere phere
VCAP5-DCA
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Use VMware VMware vS vSphere phere Au Auto Deploy™ Deploy™ to to prov provision ESX ion ESXii hosts ho sts
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Contact your VMware® representative or VMware® Authorized Training Training Cen Center™ for pricing information. information.
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one-t one-third of the the V VMware Mware vS vSphere phere:: Wha Whatt’s New [V New [V5 5.5] cour cour se con contten entt is repeat repeated in t in thi his s cour cour se. The The scalability alability topi topics cs in V in VMware Mware vS vSphere phere:: Fa Fast Tra Track ck are repeat repeated in t in thi his s course course..
Mor e Inf ormation Courses are conveniently scheduled around the world. Go to http://www.vmware.com/education to find the class that is right for you.
Education Services Datasheet
VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale
Course Modules 1
7
Cour se Intr odu oduction
Stor age Optimization
Course objectives
configuration, configuration, load balancing, balancing, and queuing affect
2
VM war e M anagem ent
Resour ce ces
8
CPU Optimization
3
Per f f orm ance in
4
Use the esxcli, vicfg, and vmware-cmd commands Review ESXi and vCenter Server log files V ir tualiz ed a Vi
Envir on onment
9
Ex lain softwa software re and hardw hardware are virtual virtualiza ization tion techni techni ues their effects on performance performance
Use vSphere performance monitoring tools
Networ k S calability
10
5
Explain distributed switch features such as private VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control, port mirroring, QoS tagging, and NetFlow
Networ k
Optimization
11
Optimization
techniques for memory reclamation when memory is overcommitted Monito Monitorr ke memor memor erfor erforman mance ce metri metrics cs Troubleshoot common memory performance problems
Vir tual M achine and
switches
features that affect CPU performance Monitor key CPU performance metrics Troubleshoot common CPU performance problems
M emor y
methodology
Confi Confi ure ure vS here® here® Flash Flash Rea Read d Cache™ Cache™ Monito Monitorr ke stora stora e erfor erforman mance ce metri metrics cs Use vS here here Mana Mana ement ement Assi Assista stant nt to mana mana e virtu virtual al Troubleshoot common storage performance problems
Cluster Optimization
allocation settings, VMware vSphere® Distributed Scheduler ™ clusters, clusters, resource pools, and VMware High Availability admission control policies Troubleshoot Troublesho ot virtual machine ower-on failures Troubleshoot vSphere cluster problems
Host and M anagem ent S calability
administrative tasks
6
network configurations
Troubleshoot common network performance problems
Use Ima Ima e Builder Builder to create create an an ESXi ESXi installati installation on ima e Use vSphere Auto Deploy to provision ESXi hosts
Stor age Scalabilit y
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storage awareness Confi Confi ure ure and assi assi n virtua virtuall machin machine e stora stora e olici olicies es Conf Confii ure ure VMw VMware are vS here here® ® Sto Stora ra e DRS DRS™ and vSphere® Storage I/O Control
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