Course Overview
This five-day course will teach you advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you will configure and optimize the vSphere features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure, and you will discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. Anyone who is ready to take their understanding of vSphere to a deeper level and learn how to use advanced features and controls will greatly benefit from this course.
Who should attend
- Experienced system administrators
- Systems engineers
- System integrators
Prerequisites
Completion of one of the following courses:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (VICM) or
- 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 ESXi networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
- Manage changes to the vSphere environment
- Optimize the performance of all vSphere components
- Harden the vSphere environment against security threats
- Use VMware vSphere® Client™, VMware vSphere® Web Client, and VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Shell to manage vSphere
- Use VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to provision ESXi hosts
- Use VMware vRealize® Log Insight™ to monitor system logs
- Deploy VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ to be highly available and optimized for performance
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- Network Scalability
- Storage Scalability
- Host and Management Scalability
- CPU Optimization
- Memory Optimization
- Storage Optimization
- Network Optimization
- Analyzing vSphere
- vCenter Server Availability and Performance
- vSphere Security