Course Description

Course Overview

Optimize and Scale [V7] is an advanced five-day course designed for experienced VMware vSphere administrators who want to further enhance their skills in optimizing and scaling vSphere environments. This course covers advanced topics such as performance tuning, resource management, and high availability configurations to ensure optimal performance and scalability of vSphere infrastructures.

Prerequisites

• Successful completion of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] course or equivalent knowledge and experience.
• Proficiency in vSphere administration and virtualization concepts.
• Understanding of vSphere networking, storage, and resource management.

Methodology

The VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7] course follows a combination of theoretical lectures, practical demonstrations, and hands-on labs. Instructors will provide in-depth explanations of advanced vSphere concepts, followed by practical demonstrations to illustrate their implementation. The majority of the course will focus on hands-on lab exercises, allowing participants to gain real-world experience in optimizing and scaling vSphere environments.

Course Outline

Course Introduction and Review

Course objectives, agenda, and review of vSphere concepts

Configuring Advanced vSphere Networking

Understanding vSphere distributed switches (VDS)

Configuring VDS features like Network I/O Control (NIOC) and traffic shaping

Advanced Storage Configurations

Implementing vSphere storage policies and storage I/O control (SIOC)

Configuring and managing VMware vSAN

Performance Optimization

Analyzing vSphere performance using various tools and techniques

Performance tuning and optimization strategies

vSphere High Availability and Fault Tolerance

Configuring vSphere High Availability (HA) and admission control

Implementing vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) for continuous availability

Introduction to vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Outcome

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Configure advanced vSphere networking features, such as vSphere distributed switches and Network I/O Control.
• Implement vSphere storage policies and storage I/O control for efficient storage management.
• Manage and configure VMware vSAN for storage virtualization.
• Analyze vSphere performance using various tools and optimize vSphere environments for improved performance.
• Configure vSphere High Availability (HA) and Fault Tolerance (FT) for enhanced VM availability.
• Gain an introduction to vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) for efficient resource management.

Labs

• Configuring Advanced vSphere Networking: Participants will configure vSphere distributed switches (VDS) and enable Network I/O Control (NIOC).
• Advanced Storage Configurations: Participants will implement vSphere storage policies and storage I/O control (SIOC) for storage optimization.
• Managing VMware vSAN: Participants will configure and manage VMware vSAN for storage virtualization.
• Performance Optimization: Participants will use various performance analysis tools to optimize vSphere environments.
• vSphere High Availability and Fault Tolerance: Participants will configure vSphere High Availability (HA) and implement Fault Tolerance (FT) for VM availability.