Course Outline:
Course Description: Course introduction and course preparation.
Course Objectives: VMware Resource Management.
Configure VMA to understand the esxcli and vicfg commands.
Configure ESXi technical support mode and SSH access.
Learn about important ESXi and vCenter Server log files.
Performance issues in virtualized environments.
Learn how to troubleshoot vSphere performance issues.
Learn about software and hardware virtualization technologies and their impact on performance.
Use vSphere performance monitoring tools.
Network scalability.
Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches.
Migrate virtual machines from standard switches to distributed switches.
Learn about the features of distributed switches, such as PVLANs and VMware
vSphere network IO control, port mirroring, and NetFlow
Network optimization. Learn about the performance characteristics of your network adapter.
Learn about the performance characteristics of your vSphere network.
Monitor key network performance metrics.
Use VMA to manage virtual network configurations.
Troubleshoot common issues that affect network performance.
Storage scalability.
Configure the storage multipathing feature.
Learn about the vSphere Storage APIs for merchandising integration and storage identification
This section describes profile-driven storage and adding a storage policy to a virtual machine storage profile.
Describes operations related to VMware vSphere Storage DRS.
Configure Storage DRS and VMware vSphere storage IO control.
Storage optimization. Diagnose storage access issues.
Learn how storage protocols, VMware vSphere VMFS configurations, load balancing, and queues affect performance.
Monitor key storage performance metrics.
Use VMA to manage virtual storage.
Troubleshoot common issues that affect storage performance.