Description
Course Overview
Prerequisites
vSphere 5.5 knowledge equivalent to attending vSphere Install, Configure, Manage [V5.x] and system administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Discuss key enhancements made to vSphere in version 6
- Discuss new feature and maximum configuration allowances in vCenter Server 6
- Discuss and configure new ESXi security and account management features
- Discuss the deployment process of vSphere 6 release products
- Discuss Platform Services Controller use case scenarios and apply these in vSphere 6 environments
- Discuss the differences between VMware vSphere® Client™ and VMware vSphere® Web Client in the vSphere 6 release
- Describe and configure enhancements made to virtual machines in the vSphere 6 release
- Apply the uses and benefits of VMware vRealize™ Operations Manager™
- Discuss and apply storage security and policies
- Discuss and configure storage fault domains
- Discuss the benefits of and configure virtual volumes
- Discuss and apply network performance enhancements
- Describe enhancements to VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ and VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ in the vSphere 6 release
- Discuss and configure cross-vCenter Server systems migration
- Discuss and apply multiprocessor fault tolerance and VMware vSphere® App HA enhancements
Who Should Attend
- vSphere Administrators
- Systems Engineers and Operators who have attended vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage V5.x or have the equivalent experience.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course goals and objectives
- Online vSphere resources
- Location of online vSphere documentation
Lesson 2: Introduction to vSphere 6
- Discuss vSphere 6 feature enhancements
- Discuss vSphere 6 installation and upgrade differences
- Describe and apply ESXi lockdown mode
- Discuss and apply ESXi account management
- Discuss the integration and benefits of VMware vCloud® Air™
Lesson 3: vCenter Server 6
- Discuss the new features and benefits of vCenter Server 6
- Use the new installation process to deploy vCenter Server
- Apply vCenter Server configuration maximums
- Use Platform Services Controller to manage system services
- Use VMware Certificate Authority and VMware Endpoint Certificate Services to manage certificate lifecycles
- Use the vSphere Web Client to apply enhanced performance configurations
Lesson 4: Virtual Machine Enhancements
- Use virtual hardware version 11 enhancements to virtual machines in the vSphere 6 release
Lesson 5: Management Enhancements
- Discuss VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control features
- Describe changes between Network I/O Control version 2 and Network I/O Control version 3
- Apply virtual machine and distributed switch bandwidth configuration changes to increase performance
- Describe IPv6 use cases in the vSphere environment
Lesson 6: Storage Enhancements
- Define key storage security enhancements made to the storage stack supported by vSphere 6
- Discuss changes in lease management, share reservation, and authentication Remote Procedure Call authentication brought by the vSphere NFS 4.1 client for datastores
- Describe and apply disk and storage bandwidth configuration to improve performance
- Describe the differences between VMware Virtual SAN™ version 1 and Virtual SAN version 2
- Create virtual machine storage policies
- Create fault domains
- Describe the ways that Virtual Volumes changes how virtual machine storage is presented and managed
- Create, discover, and connect to storage containers
Lesson 7: Network Enhancements
- Discuss Network I/O Control features
- Describe changes between Network I/O Control version 2 and version 3
- Discuss virtual machine and distributed switch bandwidth configuration changes to increase performance
- Discuss IPv6 use cases in the vSphere environment
Lesson 8: Scalability Enhancements
- Discuss and apply vSphere DRS enhancements
- Discuss and apply vSphere Storage DRS enhancements
Lesson 9: Availability Enhancements
- Configure cross-vCenter Server system migration
- Discuss multiprocessor fault tolerance features in vSphere 6
- Discuss enhancements to App HA in vSphere 6
