1 Course Introduction and course logistics objectives

2 Network Scalability and manage vSphere distributed switches how VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control enhances performance distributed switch features such as port mirroring and NetFlow

3 Storage Scalability why VMware vSphere® VMFS is a high-performance, scalable file system VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Array Integration, VMware vSphere® API for Storage Awareness™, and vSphere APIs for I/O filtering and assign virtual machine storage policies VMware vSAN™ storage policies components of the VMware vSphere® Virtual Volumes™ architecture VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ and VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control

4 Host and Management Scalability the vSphere Client to manage vSphere certificates identity federation and recognize its use cases identity federation to allow vCenter Server to use external identity provider the benefits and use cases of vSphere Trust Authority vSphere Trust Authority host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance a local content library and subscribe to a published content library VMs from a content library and manage resource pools in a cluster how scalable shares work

5 CPU Optimization the CPU scheduler operation and other features that affect CPU performance NUMA and vNUMA support esxtop to monitor key CPU performance metrics

6 Memory Optimization ballooning, memory compression, transparent page sharing, and host-swapping techniques for memory reclamation when memory is overcommitted esxtop to monitor key memory performance metrics

7 Storage Optimization storage queue types and other factors that affect storage performance vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies esxtop to monitor key storage performance metrics

8 Network Optimization performance features of network adapters the performance features of vSphere networking esxtop to monitor key network performance metrics

9 vCenter Server Performance Optimization the factors that influence vCenter Server performance VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ tools to monitor resource use

Supplemental Content Appendix A: vSphere Auto Deploy the purpose of VMware vSphere® ESXi ™ Image Builder CLI the purpose of VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ how an autodeployed ESXi host boots a vSphere Auto Deploy environment

Appendix B: vSphere Security ESXi Host Access and Authentication strategies for securing vSphere components, such as vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines vSphere support for security standards and protocols virtual machine security features the components of a VM encryption architecture manage, and migrate encrypted VMs core dumps VM encryption events and alarms

Level Intermediate (L300) Length 5 Days Audience Experienced system administrators, system engineers, and system integrators Products VMware ESXi VMware vCenter VMware vSphere Prerequisites You must complete one of the following prerequisites:

knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server

Experience with working at the command line is highly recommended. SEE MORE Formats Classroom Live Online vFlex-ILT Private Training