VMware vSphere® – What’s New v5.5 to v6.7

VMware vSphere® - What's New v5.5 to v6.7

In this three-day, hands-on training course, you explore the new features and enhancements in VMware vCenter Server® 6.7 and VMware ESXi™ 6.7. Real-world use-case deployment scenarios, hands-on lab exercises, and lectures teach you the skills that you need to effectively implement and configure VMware vSphere® 6.7. This course is recommended for customers who want to deploy vSphere 6.7 into their existing vSphere environment.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

List and describe the importance of key features and enhancements in vSphere 6.0, 6.5, and 6.7
Use VMware vSphere® Client™, VMware Host Client™, and the VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ shell to view and configure the vSphere environment
Migrate a vCenter Server system for Windows to vCenter Server Appliance 6.7
Determine the proper upgrade path for a vCenter Server instance and upgrade vCenter Server to version 6.7
Use the appropriate method to upgrade an ESXi host
Create a multisite content library for synchronizing virtual machine templates, vApps, ISO images, and scripts across vCenter Server instances
Deploy virtual machines from a content library
Increase ESXi security by enabling lockdown mode on an ESXi host
Upgrade virtual machines to the latest virtual hardware and VMware Tools™ version
Configure NFS- and iSCSI-backed virtual volumes to provide a common storage platform, independent of the underlying storage hardware
Create storage policies and use them with virtual machines and virtual volume datastores
Register a key management server with vCenter Server and create an encrypted virtual machine
Create a distributed switch and use VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control to allocate bandwidth for a virtual machine
Activate VMware vCenter Server® High Availability

Course Outline

1 - COURSE INTRODUCTION

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2 - MANAGEMENT ENHANCEMENTS

Differentiate the vSphere clients
Use vSphere Client to view the vSphere environment
Use VMware Host Client to view the vSphere environment
Describe the vSphere 6.0, 6.5, and 6.7 enhancements to vCenter Server Appliance
Describe the new features of vSphere 6.7
Discuss methods for vCenter Server Appliance Backup and Restore
Manage a vCenter Server Appliance by using the command-line shell interface
Describe how vCenter Server High Availability works
Describe how VMware Platform Services Controller™ high availability works
Configure and test vCenter Server High Availability
Summarize the purpose of content libraries in a vSphere environment
Create a local content library
Subscribe to a published content library
Deploy virtual machines from a content library

3 - VCENTER SERVER UPGRADE AND MIGRATION

Determine the appropriate upgrade path for a vCenter Server deployment
Upgrade a vCenter Server Appliance instance to vCenter Server Appliance 6.7
Upgrade a vCenter Server instance to vCenter Server 6.7
Determine the appropriate migration path for a vCenter Server deployment
Describe the new migration features of vCenter Server 6.7
Migrate a vCenter Server instance for Windows to vCenter Server Appliance 6.7
Describe Platform Services Controller High Availability deployment options
Describe Enhanced Linked Mode with embedded Platform Services Controllers
Use Embedded Linked Mode to link multiple vCenter Server systems
Use Cross SSO Domain repointing to move and consolidate vCenter Server systems from different
domains into one domain

4 - ESXI UPGRADE AND ENHANCEMENTS

Determine the appropriate upgrade method for an ESXi host
Describe the procedure for upgrading an ESXi 5.5, 6.0, or 6.5 host to an ESXi 6.7 host
Discuss the additional features to support hot-plug and SMART solid-state drives
Describe the new capabilities of Host Profiles introduced in vSphere 6.5
Describe the vSphere 6.7 Quick Boot feature
Describe the VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ EAM integration
Describe vSphere 6.7 persistent memory feature
Describe how Per-VM Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) provides greater VM mobility
Discuss how virtual machines and applications to leverage high-performance physical GPU hardware
Discuss how Instant Clone technology enables the rapid deployment of similar virtual machines

5 - VIRTUAL MACHINE ENHANCEMENTS

Discuss how virtual hardware 11, 13, and 14 extend virtual machine resource configurations
Describe how the VMXNET3 adapter optimizes network traffic
Discuss how hot-add memory is distributed across NUMA nodes in vSphere 6.x
Describe the benefits of VMware vSphere® Integrated Containers™
Upgrade Virtual Machines

6 - STORAGE ENHANCEMENTS

Describe vSphere 6.x support for NFS
Describe VMware vSphere® VMFS6 datastore
Explain the advantages of SEsparse format for environments where many tenants share storage
Discuss support for 4Kn (4K native) storage devices
Explain how VMware vSphere® API for Storage Awareness™ can ensure that a VM’s storage
requirements are met
Describe the interoperability enhancements to VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ and VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control
Describe how vSphere Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control improves adherence to configured
maximums and reservations
Describe the VMware vSAN enhancements
Describe how VMDK data operations are offloaded to storage arrays through VMware vSphere® API for Storage Awareness™
Describe per-virtual machine, policy-based policy management

7 - SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS

Use encryption in your vSphere environment
Encrypt virtual machines in your vSphere environment
Explain how to back up encrypted virtual machines
Enable encrypted vSphere vMotion migration
Discuss the improvements to lockdown settings
Describe the addition of smart-card authentication
Explain the changes that enhance user accountability
Describe secure boot support for ESXi hosts
Describe the security enhancements introduced in vSphere 6.7
Enable Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 mode in your vSphere environment
Enable a virtual TPM device in your vSphere environment
Discuss support for Virtualization Based Security (VBS) in your vSphere environment
Deploy enhanced vCenter Server events and alarms and vSphere logging
Describe the vSphere features for monitoring vCenter Server Appliance
List the VMware certificate management components
Describe certificate use changes in vSphere 6.0
Describe the primary services provided by the VMware Certificate Authority component
Contrast using VMware certificate authority (CA) with using and external CA

8 - NETWORK ENHANCEMENTS

Use Network I/O Control
Upgrade Network I/O Control to version 3
Enable network resource management on VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™
Configure bandwidth allocation for system and virtual machine traffic based on shares and reservation
Discuss IPv6 support in vSphere 6.x
Explain how the gateway per vmknic feature works and how it is configured
Explain the new ERSPAN headers supported in vSphere 6.5 and how they are configured
Describe the areas where performance improvements were made in vSphere 6.5

9 - AVAILABILITY ENHANCEMENTS

Describe the TCP/IP stack for vSphere vMotion that was introduced in vSphere 6.0
Explain the changes that make vSphere vMotion migrations across high-latency networks possible
Discuss the requirements for migrating a virtual machine across vCenter Server instances
Explain how VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance in vSphere 6.0 supports virtual machines with multiple virtual CPUs
Describe how vSphere Fault Tolerance maintains the secondary virtual machine in a ready state
Explain the mechanism by which the primary virtual machine is determined
Discuss the improvements made in handling all paths down (APD) and permanent device lost (PDL) conditions
Describe the increased scalability of vSphere HA
Explain the additional compatibility supported by vSphere HA
Explain the enhancement of vSphere HA admission control and orchestrated restarts
Describe advanced vSphere DRS options
Increase VM and workload uptime with Predictive DRS
Discuss how Proactive HA helps reduce VM downtime
Reduce the need for vSphere HA with Proactive HA

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