Course Outline
1. Course Introduction
- Introductions
and course logistics
- Course
objectives
2. Management Enhancements
- Differentiate
the vSphere clients
- Use
vSphere Client to view the vSphere environment
- Use
VMware Host Client to view the vSphere environment
- Describe
the vSphere 6.0, 6.5, and 6.7 enhancements to vCenter Server Appliance
- Describe
the new features of vSphere 6.7
- Discuss
methods for vCenter Server Appliance Backup and Restore
- Manage
a vCenter Server Appliance by using the command-line shell interface
- Describe
how vCenter Server High Availability works
- Describe
how VMware Platform Services Controller™ high availability works
- Configure
and test vCenter Server High Availability
- Summarize
the purpose of content libraries in a vSphere environment
- Create
a local content library
- Subscribe
to a published content library
- Deploy
virtual machines from a content library
3. vCenter Server Upgrade and Migration
- Determine
the appropriate upgrade path for a vCenter Server deployment
- Upgrade
a vCenter Server Appliance instance to vCenter Server Appliance 6.7
- Upgrade
a vCenter Server instance to vCenter Server 6.7
- Determine
the appropriate migration path for a vCenter Server deployment
- Describe
the new migration features of vCenter Server 6.7
- Migrate
a vCenter Server instance for Windows to vCenter Server Appliance 6.7
- Describe
Platform Services Controller High Availability deployment options
- Describe
Enhanced Linked Mode with embedded Platform Services Controllers
- Use
Embedded Linked Mode to link multiple vCenter Server systems
- Use
Cross SSO Domain repointing to move and consolidate vCenter Server systems
from different domains into one domain
4. ESXi Upgrade and Enhancements
- Determine the appropriate upgrade
method for an ESXi host
- Describe the procedure for upgrading
an ESXi 5.5, 6.0, or 6.5 host to an ESXi 6.7 host
- Discuss the additional features to
support hot-plug and SMART solid-state drives
- Describe the new capabilities of Host
Profiles introduced in vSphere 6.5
- Describe the vSphere 6.7 Quick Boot
feature
- Describe the VMware vSphere® Update
Manager™ EAM integration
- Describe vSphere 6.7 persistent memory
feature
- Describe how Per-VM Enhanced vMotion
Compatibility (EVC) provides greater VM mobility
- Discuss how virtual machines and applications
to leverage high-performance physical GPU hardware
- Discuss how Instant Clone technology
enables the rapid deployment of similar virtual machines
5. Virtual Machine Enhancements
- Discuss how virtual hardware 11, 13,
and 14 extend virtual machine resource configurations
- Describe how the VMXNET3 adapter
optimizes network traffic
- Discuss how hot-add memory is
distributed across NUMA nodes in vSphere 6.x
- Describe the benefits of VMware
vSphere® Integrated Containers™
- Upgrade Virtual Machines
6. Storage Enhancements
- Describe vSphere 6.x support for NFS
- Describe VMware vSphere® VMFS6
datastore
- Explain the advantages of SEsparse
format for environments where many tenants share storage
- Discuss support for 4Kn (4K native)
storage devices
- Explain how VMware vSphere® API for
Storage Awareness™ can ensure that a VM’s storage requirements are
met
- Describe the interoperability
enhancements to VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ and VMware
vSphere® Storage I/O Control
- Describe how vSphere Storage DRS and
Storage I/O Control improves adherence to configured maximums and
reservations
- Describe the VMware vSAN enhancements
- Describe how VMDK data operations are
offloaded to storage arrays through VMware vSphere® API for Storage
Awareness™
- Describe per-virtual machine,
policy-based policy management
7. Security Enhancements
- Use encryption in your vSphere
environment
- Encrypt virtual machines in your
vSphere environment
- Explain how to back up encrypted
virtual machines
- Enable encrypted vSphere vMotion
migration
- Discuss the improvements to lockdown
settings
- Describe the addition of smart-card
authentication
- Explain the changes that enhance user
accountability
- Describe secure boot support for ESXi
hosts
- Describe the security enhancements
introduced in vSphere 6.7
- Enable Federal Information Processing
Standard (FIPS) 140-2 mode in your vSphere environment
- Enable a virtual TPM device in your
vSphere environment
- Discuss support for Virtualization
Based Security (VBS) in your vSphere environment
- Deploy enhanced vCenter Server events
and alarms and vSphere logging
- Describe the vSphere features for
monitoring vCenter Server Appliance
- List the VMware certificate management
components
- Describe certificate use changes in
vSphere 6.0
- Describe the primary services provided
by the VMware Certificate Authority component
- Contrast using VMware certificate
authority (CA) with using and external CA
8. Network Enhancements
- Use Network I/O Control
- Upgrade Network I/O Control to version
3
- Enable network resource management on
VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™
- Configure bandwidth allocation for
system and virtual machine traffic based on shares and reservation
- Discuss IPv6 support in vSphere 6.x
- Explain how the gateway per vmknic
feature works and how it is configured
- Explain the new ERSPAN headers
supported in vSphere 6.5 and how they are configured
- Describe the areas where performance
improvements were made in vSphere 6.5
9. Availability Enhancements
- Describe the TCP/IP stack for vSphere
vMotion that was introduced in vSphere 6.0
- Explain the changes that make vSphere
vMotion migrations across high-latency networks possible
- Discuss the requirements for migrating
a virtual machine across vCenter Server instances
- Explain how VMware vSphere® Fault
Tolerance in vSphere 6.0 supports virtual machines with multiple
- virtual CPUs
- Describe how vSphere Fault Tolerance
maintains the secondary virtual machine in a ready state
- Explain the mechanism by which the
primary virtual machine is determined
- Discuss the improvements made in
handling all paths down (APD) and permanent device lost
(PDL) conditions
- Describe the increased scalability of
vSphere HA
- Explain the additional compatibility
supported by vSphere HA
- Explain the enhancement of vSphere HA
admission control and orchestrated restarts
- Describe advanced vSphere DRS options
- Increase VM and workload uptime with
Predictive DRS
- Discuss how Proactive HA helps reduce
VM downtime
- Reduce
the need for vSphere HA with Proactive HA