VMware vSphere: Optimize & Scale

Experienced system administrators, system engineers, and system integrators who wish to learn how to provide a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure

After completing this course you should be able to:

• 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

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

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

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

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

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 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 use

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

Attendees should meet the following prerequisites:

• Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course or Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server
• Experience with working at the command line is highly recommended.

Recommended prerequisites:

• VSICM - VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

  The following are recommended for further study:

• VSD - VMware vSphere: Design