VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V5.1]
Learn the advanced skills needed to maintain a virtual infrastructure based on ESXi 5.1 and vCenter Server 5.1.
This course covers, configure and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0 and VMware vCenter Server 5.1.
Objectives
- Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
- Manage changes to the vSphere environment
- Optimize the performance of all vSphere components
- Troubleshoot operational faults and identify their root causes
- Use VMware vSphere ESXi Shell and VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) to manage vSphere
- Use VMware vSphere Auto Deploy to provision ESXi hosts
Who can take this course
Experienced system administrators and system integrators
Prerequisites
Kowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server Experience working at the command prompt is highly recommended or completion of one of the following courses:
Follow-On Course
Certification Programs
This course is part of the following programs
Course Content
1. VMware Management Resources
- Configuring vMA
- esxcli and vicfg commands
- Configuring ESXi technical support mode and SSH access
- Important ESXi and vCenter Server log files
2. Performance in a Virtualized Environment
- vSphere performance troubleshooting methodology
- Software and hardware virtualization techniques and their effects on performance
- Using vSphere performance monitoring tools
3. Network Scalability
- Creating, configuring, and managing vSphere distributed switches
- Migrating virtual machines from standard switches to distributed switches
- Distributed switch features, such as PVLANs, VMware vSphere Network I/OControl, port mirroring, and NetFlow
4. Network Optimization
- Performance features of network adapters
- Performance features of vSphere networking
- Monitoring key network performance metrics
- Using vMA to manage virtual network configuration
- Troubleshooting common network performance problems
5. Storage Scalability
- Configuring storage multipathing
- vSphere storage APIs for array integration and storage awareness
- Profile-driven storage
- Adding a storage policy to a virtual machine storage profile
- VMware vSphere Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) operation
- Configuring Storage DRS and VMware vSphere Storage I/O Control
6. Storage Optimization
- Diagnosing storage access problems
- Storage protocols, VMware vSphere VMFS configuration, load balancing, and queuing affect performance
- Monitoring key storage performance metrics
- Using vMA to manage virtual storage
- Troubleshooting common storage performance problems
7. CPU Optimization
- CPU scheduler and other features that affect CPU performance
- Monitoring key CPU performance metrics
- Troubleshooting common CPU performance problems
8. Memory Optimization
- Memory reclamation techniques and over commitment
- Monitoring key memory performance metrics
- Troubleshooting common memory performance problems
9. Virtual Machine and Cluster Optimization
- Performance guidelines for virtual machines, resource allocation settings, VMware vSphere DRS clusters, resource pools, and VMware vSphere High Availability admission control policies
- Troubleshooting virtual machine power-on failures
- Troubleshooting vSphere cluster problems
10. Host and Management Scalability
- Managing multiple vCenter Server inventories with vCenter Linked Mode
- VMware vSphere Distributed Power Management
- Using Host Profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
- Using VMware vSphere PowerCLI to perform vSphere administrative tasks
- Using Image Builder to create an ESXi installation image
- Using vSphere Auto Deploy to provision ESXi hosts
Labs
Lab 1: Use VMware vSphere Management Assistant
- Access your student desktop system
- Verify that your vSphere licenses are valid
- Power on a virtual machine
- Enable the ESXi Shell and SSH services
- Log in to vMA and connect to your vCenter Server and ESXi host
- Use esxcli commands to retrieve information about an ESXi host
- Use vicfg commands to configure NTP
- Use vmware-cmd to manage virtual machines
Lab 2: VMware Monitoring Tools
- Start database activity in your test virtual machine
- Display advanced vSphere Web Client performance charts
- Start esxtop
- Explore the esxtop screens
- Run resxtop in batch mode
- Use Windows Perfmon to display batch mode output
Lab 3: vSphere Distributed Switches
- Configure infrastructure to use a single vCenter Server - Part I
- Configure infrastructure to use a single vCenter Server - Part II
- Create a distributed switch for the virtual machine network
- Create a distributed switch port group
- Migrate virtual machines to a distributed switch port group
- Verify that your virtual machine has proper access to the Production network
Lab 4: Port Mirroring
- Back up the distributed switch configuration
- Configure port mirroring on a distributed switch
- Verify that port mirroring works properly
- Restore the distributed virtual switch configuration
Lab 5: Monitor Network Activity
- Start the network client and network server virtual machines
- Configure esxtop
- Perform test case 1: Measure network activity over the e1000 network adapter
- Modify test virtual machines to use vmxnet3
- Perform test case 2: Measure network activity over the vmxnet3 network adapter
- Perform test case 3: Measure network activity over the same network
- Summarize your findings
Lab 6: Command-Line Network Management
- View your virtual switch configuration
- Examine .vmx file entries related to the network configuration
- Examine net-dvs output
Lab 7: Profile -Driven Storage
- Create a VMFS datastore configuration for this lab
- Create a user-defined storage capability
- Create a virtual machine storage profile
- Enable your host to use virtual machine storage profiles
- Associate storage profiles with virtual machines
Lab 8: Manage Datastore Clusters
- Create a datastore cluster enabled for Storage DRS
- Perform a datastore evacuation with datastore maintenance mode
- Manually run Storage DRS and apply migration recommendations
- Acknowledge Storage DRS alarms
Lab 9: Monitor Storage Performance
- Identify the vmhbas used for local storage and shared storage
- Add disks to your test virtual machine
- Display the real-time disk performance charts of the vSphere Client
- Perform test case 1: Measure sequential write activity to your remote virtual disk
- Perform test case 2: Measure random write activity to your remote virtual disk
- Perform test case 3: Measure random read activity to your remote virtual disk
- Perform test case 4: Measure random read activity to your local virtual disk
- Summarize your findings
Lab 10: Command-Line Storage Management
- Use esxcli to view storage configuration information
- Use vmkfstools to manage volumes and virtual disks
- Generate disk activity in your test virtual machine
- Start vscsiStats
- Use vscsiStats to generate a histogram for disk latency
- Use vscsiStats to determine type of I/O disk activity
- Generate disk activity in your test virtual machine
- Use vscsiStats to determine type of I/O disk activity
Lab 11: Monitor CPU Performance
- Run a single-threaded program in a single-vCPU virtual machine
- Use esxtop to observe baseline data
- Use the vSphere Client to observe baseline data
- Import the CPU-HOG vApp
- Generate CPU contention
- Observe the performance of the test virtual machine
- Run a single-threaded program in a dual-vCPU virtual machine
- Run a dual-threaded program in a dual-vCPU virtual machine
- Run a multithreaded program in a quad-vCPU virtual machine
- Observe the performance of the test virtual machine
Lab 12: Diagnose CPU Performance
- Generate CPU activity
- Display pop-up charts for your ESXi host and your test virtual machine
- Check for host CPU saturation
- Check for guest CPU saturation
- Check for using only one vCPU in an SMP virtual machine
- Check for low guest CPU utilization
Lab 13: Monitor Memory Performance
- Generate database activity
- Display the memory screen in resxtop
- Display a memory performance chart for your test virtual machine
- Observe your test virtual machine's memory usage
- Import the RAM-HOG vApp
- Overcommit memory resources
- Observe memory statistics
Lab 14: Diagnose Memory Performance
- Generate memory activity
- Display the memory performance charts for your ESXi host and virtual machines
- Check for active host-level swapping
- Check for past host-level swapping
- Check for guest operating system paging
- Check for high guest memory demand
Lab 15: Diagnose Virtual Machine and Cluster Performance
- Move your ESXi host into the first problem cluster
- Troubleshoot the first cluster problem
- Troubleshoot the second cluster problem
Lab 16: Work with Host Profiles
- Create a host profile
- Attach a host profile to an ESXi host and check compliance
- Purposely introduce configuration drift
- Check compliance again
- Remediate the managed host
- Detach the managed host from the host profile
Lab 17: Use Windows PowerShell
- Start vSphere PowerCLI and find the vSphere PowerCLI version
- Retrieve the Windows PowerShell security policy
- Create a simple script
- Display the vSphere PowerCLI help files
- Connect and disconnect to your ESXi host
- Define a variable to store the ESXi host and vCenter Server system names
- Connect to the vCenter Server system
- Run cmdlets to find ESXi host-related information
- List the datastores on an ESXi host
- List the properties of a virtual switch
- Use Get-VM to retrieve virtual machine properties
- Use Get-Stat to retrieve performance information
- Migrate a virtual machine's disk to shared storage
- Use vMotion to migrate a virtual machine
Lab 18: Use Image Builder
- Export an image profile to an ISO image
Lab 19: Configure VMware vSphere Auto Deploy on a Windows vCenter Server System
- Install Auto Deploy
- Configure the DHCP server and TFTP server for Auto Deploy
- Use vSphere PowerCLI to configure Auto Deploy
- View the autodeployed host in the vCenter Server inventory
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