Duration
1 day
Outline
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.