Course Overview
TOPThis five-day course teaches you advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you configure and optimize the VMware vSphere 7 features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure, and you discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. Attend this course to deepen your understanding of vSphere and learn how its advanced features and controls can benefit your organization. As an exclusive benefit, those who participate in this course will receive additional premium recorded lecture material on vSphere security.
Scheduled Classes
TOP| 04/27/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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What You'll Learn
TOPConfigure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise.
- Create and manage a content library for deploying virtual machines.
- Manage VM resource usage with resource pools.
- Monitor and analyze key performance indicators for compute, storage, and networking resources for ESXi hosts.
- Optimize performance in the vSphere environment, including vCenter Server.
- By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Outline
TOPIntroductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches.
- Explain distributed switch features such as port mirroring and NetFlow.
- Explain why VMware vSphere VMFS is a high-performance, scalable file system.
- Configure and assign virtual machine storage policies.
- Use the vSphere Client to manage vSphere certificates.
- Describe how scalable shares work.
- Describe identity federation and recognize its use cases.
- Configure identity federation to allow vCenter Server to use an external identity provider.
- Describe the benefits and use cases of vSphere Trust Authority.
- Configure vSphere Trust Authority.
- Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance.
- Create a local content library and subscribe to a published content library.
- Deploy VMs from a content library.
- Create and manage resource pools in a cluster.
- Explain the CPU scheduler operation and other features that affect CPU performance.
- Explain NUMA and vNUMA support.
- Use esxtop to monitor key CPU performance metrics.
- Explain ballooning, memory compression, transparent page sharing, and host-swapping techniques for memory reclamation when memory is overcommitted.
- Use esxtop to monitor key memory performance metrics
- Describe storage queue types and other factors that affect storage performance.
- Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies.
- Use esxtop to monitor key storage performance metrics.
- Explain performance features of network adapters.
- Explain the performance features of vSphere networking.
- Use esxtop to monitor key network performance metrics.
- Describe the factors that influence vCenter Server performance.
Prerequisites
TOPUnderstanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] course
- Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server
- You must meet one of the following prerequisites:
Who Should Attend
TOPExperienced system administrators, system engineers, and system integrators
