Description
In this course, you will learn:
- The essentials of vSphere 6.5, the data center virtualization platform from VMware.
- How to migrate virtual machines with vMotion, configure High Availability, and cluster ESXi hosts and related virtual machines with VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).
- About controlling resource allocation with DRS rules and resource pools, configuring fault tolerance, and fixing common issues related to installation, storage, and virtual machines.
- How to export logs, set up alarms, and perform simple database maintenance.
Syllabus:
1. Administer Availability
- vMotion
- Demo: Configuring for vMotion
- Demo: vMotion
- Demo: Scheduled vMotion
- Storage vMotion
- Demo: Storage vMotion
- High Availability (HA) introduction
- Admission control
- vSphere 6.5: What's new in HA
- Demo: HA
- Demo: Proactive HA
2. Administer Resource Management Features
- Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
- DRS affinity rules
- DRS and vCenter
- DRS and maintenance mode
- DRS and automation levels
- DRS and resource fragmentation
- vSphere 6.5: What's new in DRS
- Demo: DRS
- Fault tolerance
- Demo: Fault tolerance
- Resource pools
- vSphere data protection
3. Troubleshooting vSphere 6.x
- vSphere data protection
- Demo: Verify VM network config
- Demo: Verify host networking
- ESXi management agents
- Demo: Troubleshoot common installation issues
- Demo: Troubleshoot common storage issues