VMware vSphere® – Optimize and Scale plus Troubleshooting Fast Track v6.5

VMware vSphere® - Optimize and Scale plus Troubleshooting Fast Track v6.5

This course is a blend of the vSphere: Optimize & Scale and vSphere Troubleshooting classes. It brings the best of each of these courses into a single unique offering that equips experienced VMware administrators with advanced VMware knowledge.

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
Manage changes to the vSphere environment
Optimize the performance of all vSphere components
Use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Shell and VMware vSphere® Management Assistant to manage vSphere
Use VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to provision ESXi hosts
Harden the vSphere environment against security threats
Use VMware vSphere® Web Client, the command line interface, and log files to diagnose and correct problems in vSphere
Troubleshoot networking, storage, VMware vCenter Server®, ESXi host, vSphere cluster, VMware vSphere® vMotion®, and virtual machine problems

Course Outline

1 - COURSE INTRODUCTION

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2 - INTRODUCTION TO TROUBLESHOOTING

Identify the effects of a system problem
Define the scope of troubleshooting
Use a structured approach
Understand the principles of troubleshooting
Follow a logical troubleshooting procedure
Examine examples of troubleshooting

3 - TROUBLESHOOTING TOOLS

Use command-line tools to identify and troubleshoot problems
Use VMware vSphere® Management Assistant
Find and interpret important log files
Use VMware vRealize® Log Insight™ for log aggregation, efficient log search, and problem analysis

4 - VSPHERE SECURITY

Configure ESXi host access and authorization
Secure ESXi, vCenter Server, and virtual machines
Use VMware Certificate Authority to configure vSphere certificate management
Configure vSphere to encrypt virtual machines, core dumps, and vSphere vMotion migrations

5 - NETWORK SCALABILITY

Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
Explain distributed switch features such as port mirroring, LACP, QoS tagging, and NetFlow

6 - NETWORK OPTIMIZATION

Explain the performance features of network adapters
Explain the performance features of vSphere networking
Use esxtop to monitor key network performance metrics

7 - NETWORKING TROUBLESHOOTING

Identify the symptoms of network-related problems
Analyze and resolve standard switch and distributed switch problems
Analyze virtual machine connectivity problems and fix them
Examine common management network connectivity problems and restore configurations
Identify and prevent potential problems

8 - STORAGE SCALABILITY

Explain VMware vSphere® Storage APIs - Array Integration and VMware vSphere® API for 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

Describe storage queue types and other factors that affect storage performance
Use esxtop to monitor key storage performance metrics

10 - STORAGE TROUBLESHOOTING

Troubleshoot storage (iSCSI, NFS, VMware vSphere® VMFS, VMware vSAN™, and VMware vSphere® Virtual Volumes™) connectivity problems
Analyze storage-related logs
Analyze hardware malfunction and software misconfiguration scenarios
Identify multipathing-related problems, including permanent device loss (PDL) and all paths down (APD)
Analyze possible causes, recover from the faulty conditions, and restore storage visibility

11 - CPU OPTIMIZATION

Explain the CPU scheduler operation, NUMA support, and other features that affect CPU performance
Use esxtop to monitor key CPU performance metrics

12 - 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

13 - ANALYZING VSPHERE

Explain how Proactive DRS enhances virtual machine availability
Use vRealize Log Insight to identify and troubleshoot problems

14 - VSPHERE CLUSTERS

Identify and recover from problems related to VMware vSphere® High Availability
Analyze and troubleshoot vSphere vMotion problems related to virtual machine migrations
Discuss and recover from VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ problems to achieve proper function and balanced resource use
Examine vSphere cluster failure scenarios and possible solutions

15 - VIRTUAL MACHINES

Analyze and resolve common virtual machine snapshot problems
Identify possible causes and resolve virtual machine power-on problems
Troubleshoot virtual machine connection state problems
Resolve problems seen during VMware Tools™ installations
Examine failure scenarios and provide solutions

16 - HOST AND MANAGEMENT SCALABILITY

Explain the uses of VMware vCenter® Converter™
Define and use content libraries
Describe and use host profiles
Describe and use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Image Builder CLI and vSphere Auto Deploy

17 - VCENTER SERVER AND ESXI

Understand the vCenter Server and VMware Platform Services Controller™ architecture in vSphere 6.x
Identify and resolve authentication problems
Troubleshoot VMware CA and certificate problems
Analyze and fix problems with vCenter Server services
Analyze and fix vCenter Server database problems
Identify VMware vCenter Server® High Availability problems
Examine ESXi host and vCenter Server failure scenarios and resolve the problems

Actual course outline may vary depending on offering center. Contact your sales representative for more information.