Kurz: VMware vSphere – What is New [V5.5 to V6.7] (EDU-VSWN67)

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Pro absolvování kurzu se předpokládá, že už zvládáte samostatně provádět následující příkazy:

• Nainstalujte a nakonfigurujte ESX nebo ESXi.


• Nainstalujte server vCenter.


• Vytvořte objekty serveru vCenter, například datová centra a složky.


• Vytvářet a spravovat role a oprávnění serveru vCenter.


• Vytvořte a upravte standardní přepínač.


• Vytvořte a upravte distribuovaný přepínač.


• Připojte hostitele ESX / ESXi k úložišti NAS, iSCSI nebo Fibre Channel.


• Vytvoření VMware vSphere® VMFS datového úložiště.


• Povolit VMware vSphere® vMotion® na hostiteli ESX / ESXi.


• K vytvoření virtuálního počítače použijte průvodce nebo šablonu.


• Upravte hardware virtuálního počítače.


• Migrujte virtuální počítač pomocí vSphere vMotion.


• Migrujte virtuální stroj pomocí VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®.


• Konfigurujte a spravujte cluster VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler ™ s fondy zdrojů.


• Konfigurujte a spravujte cluster VMware vSphere® High Availability .

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  Kurz je vhodný pro systémové architekty, systémové administrátory, IT manažery, VMware partnery a jednotlivce zodpovědné za implementaci a správu architektur vSphere.

  
  

• Originální literatura VMware v anglickém jazyce v ceně kurzu .

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  Tento kurz je součástí přípravy na zkoušku VMware Certified Professional 6.5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6.5-DCV).

  
  

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 how to back up and restore vCenter Server Appliance.


• Explain how to patch vCenter Server Appliance.


• Describe the new features of vSphere 6.7.


• Summarize the purpose of content libraries in a vSphere environment.


• Discuss the vSphere requirements for content libraries.


• Create a local content library.


• Subscribe to a published content library.


• Deploy virtual machines from a content library.


• Describe how vCenter Server High Availability works.


• Describe how VMware Platform Services Controller™ high availability works.


• Configure vCenter Server High Availability.

3. vCenter Architecture Upgrade and Migration

• Describe the new architecture features of vCenter Server .


• Choose between a distributed configuration and an embedded configuration, based on your requirements.


• Determine the appropriate upgrade path for a vCenter Server deployment.


• Upgrade a vCenter Server Appliance 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 Windows vCenter Server 5.5 to vCenter Server Appliance 6.7.

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 enhancements to vSphere 6.5 scalability and performance.


• 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.

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™.

6. Storage Enhancements

• Describe vSphere 6.x support for NFS.


• Describe the VMFS6 datastore.


• Describe the upgrade procedure from VMFS5 to VMFS6.


• Describe the VMFS6 enhancements in vSphere 6.7.


• Describe the benefits of using virtual volumes.


• Describe per-virtual machine, policy-based policy management.


• Describe how VMDK data operations are offloaded to storage arrays through VMware vSphere® API for Storage Awareness™.


• Describe how VMware vSphere® Virtual Volumes™ is used with Windows Server Failover Clustering.


• Describe the VMware vSAN™ enhancements in the following areas:





• Scalability


• Performance


• Availability


• Space efficiency


• Operational


• Usability





• Describe the interoperability enhancements to VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ and VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control.


• Describe the enhancements to vSphere Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control that improve adherence to configured maximums and reservations

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7. Security Enhancements

• Discuss the improvements to lockdown settings.


• Describe the addition of smart-card authentication.


• Explain the changes that enhance user accountability.


• Plan for secure boot support for ESXi hosts.


• Describe the security enhancements .


• Deploy enhanced vCenter Server events and alarms and vSphere logging.


• Describe the vSphere 6.7 features for monitoring vCenter Server Appliance.


• Use encryption in your vSphere environment.


• Encrypt virtual machines.


• Explain how to back up encrypted virtual machines.


• Encrypt core dumps.


• Enable encrypted vSphere vMotion migration.


• Describe the virtual TPM feature in vSphere 6.7.


• List the core security modules that are part of VMware Platform Services Controller™.


• 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.


• Describe the primary services provided by the VMware Endpoint Certificate Store component.


• Define VMware CA certificate replacement options.


• Describe ESXi certificate replacement options.


• Discuss certificate-based guest authentication.

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 6.0.


• 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 in vSphere 6.5.


• Describe the improvement of vSphere HA orchestrated restarts.

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