Course Overview
This five-day accelerated, hands-on training course is a blend of the VMware vSphere®: Optimize and Scale and VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Workshop courses. This Fast Track course includes the best of each of these advanced courses to equip experienced VMware administrators with the knowledge to effectively optimize and troubleshoot vSphere at an expert level.
Who should attend
Experienced system administrators, system engineers, and system integrators
Prerequisites
This course requires the completion of one of the following prerequisites:
- Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7] course
- Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server
Experience with working at the command prompt is highly recommended.
Course Objectives
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 andVMware vSphere® Command-Line Interface to manage vSphere
- Harden the vSphere environment against security threats
- Use VMware vSphere® Client™, the command-line interface, and log files to diagnose and correct problems in vSphere
- Troubleshoot networking, storage, VMware vCenter Server®, VMware ESXi™ host, vSphere cluster, VMware vSphere® vMotion®, and virtual machine problems
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- Introduction to Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Tools
- Network Optimization
- Networking Troubleshooting
- Storage Optimization
- Storage Troubleshooting
- CPU Optimization
- Memory Optimization
- vCenter Server Performance Optimization
- vSphere Cluster Troubleshooting
- Virtual Machine Troubleshooting
- vSphere Security
- vCenter Server and ESXi Troubleshooting