VMware vSphere – What is New [V6.7 to V7] (EDU-VSWN7)

V tomto certifikovaném praktickém třídenním kurzu objevíte nové funkce a vylepšení v rámci VMware vCenter Server® 7 a VMware ESXi™ 7. Díky reálným scénářům nasazení, praktickým návodům a cvičením získáte zkušenosti k efektivnímu nastavení a konfiguraci VMware vSphere® 7. Tento kurz doporučujeme pro všechny, kdo chtějí nasadit vSphere 7 v jejich stávajících vSphere prostředí.

Předpokládané znalosti

Zkušenosti s prací na příkazovém řádku jsou užitečné.

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 .

Po celou dobu kurzu je pro vás připraveno bohaté občerstvení a kvalitní káva.

Zaměření kurzu

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

Studijní materiály

• Originální literatura VMware v anglickém jazyce v ceně kurzu.

Příprava na certifikaci:

• 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

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.

• List and describe the importance of key features and enhancements in vSphere 6.7, and 7.

• Use VMware vSphere® Client™, VMware Host Client™, and the VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ shell to view and configure the vSphere environment.

• Migrate a Windows vCenter Server system to vCenter Server Appliance 7.

• Determine the proper upgrade path for a vCenter Server instance, and upgrade vCenter Server to version 7.

• Use the appropriate method to upgrade an ESXi host.

• Create a multisite content library for synchronizing virtual machine templates, vApps, ISO images, and scripts across vCenter Server instances.

• Deploy virtual machines from a content library.

• Increase ESXi security by enabling lockdown mode on an ESXi host.

• Upgrade virtual machines to the latest virtual hardware and VMware Tools™ version.

• Configure NFS - and iSCSI-backed virtual volumes to provide a common storage platform, independent of the underlying storage hardware.

• Create storage policies, and use them with virtual machines and virtual volume datastores.

• Register a key management server with vCenter Server, and create an encrypted virtual machine.

• Create a distributed switch, and use VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control to allocate bandwidth for a virtual machine.

• Activate VMware vCenter Server® High Availability.