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VMware vSphere 6.0 Part 4 – Clusters, Patching, Performance

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You will learn about Understand ESXi host requirements for DRS/HA clusters Create and edit Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) load balanced clusters Understand and adjust DRS automation level settings Understand and apply DRS placement and migration recommendations Use Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) to safely grow existing DRS clusters Deliver high VM service availability using VMware High Availability clusters Understand and configure HA cluster settings such as Admission Control, All Paths Down and Permanent Device Loss policies Design HA clusters for continued management and correct behavior using network redundancy and Heartbeat datastore redundancy Configure DRS and HA clusters according to VMware's best practices for clusters Understand the features and capabilities of vSphere Fault Tolerance Configure ESXi hosts for FT network logging Enable Fault Tolerance protection on individual VMs Understand the purpose and use of VMware Update Manager Configure VUM for correct behavior according to your vSphere environment Create and update ESXi host patch baselines Apply baselines to ESXi hosts or clusters and check for compliance Patch and update non-compliant ESXi hosts Understand ESXi use of physical CPU resources Understand the five ways ESXi uses to efficiently manage memory Use Overview and Advanced performance charts to monitor resource use Identify and correct common performance issues This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is intended for vSphere Administrators who wish to add DRS cluster, HA cluster, Fault Tolerance or VMware Update Manager capabilities to their existing vSphere environment or This course will also benefit vSphere Administrators who want to learn how to improve the scalability and performance of their vSphere environments It is particularly useful for This course is intended for vSphere Administrators who wish to add DRS cluster, HA cluster, Fault Tolerance or VMware Update Manager capabilities to their existing vSphere environment or This course will also benefit vSphere Administrators who want to learn how to improve the scalability and performance of their vSphere environments.

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Title: VMware vSphere 6.0 Part 4 – Clusters, Patching, Performance

Price: $59.99

Average Rating: 4.7

Number of Lectures: 185

Number of Published Lectures: 185

Number of Curriculum Items: 185

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 185

Original Price: $19.99

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What You Will Learn

  • Understand ESXi host requirements for DRS/HA clusters
  • Create and edit Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) load balanced clusters
  • Understand and adjust DRS automation level settings
  • Understand and apply DRS placement and migration recommendations
  • Use Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) to safely grow existing DRS clusters
  • Deliver high VM service availability using VMware High Availability clusters
  • Understand and configure HA cluster settings such as Admission Control, All Paths Down and Permanent Device Loss policies
  • Design HA clusters for continued management and correct behavior using network redundancy and Heartbeat datastore redundancy
  • Configure DRS and HA clusters according to VMware's best practices for clusters
  • Understand the features and capabilities of vSphere Fault Tolerance
  • Configure ESXi hosts for FT network logging
  • Enable Fault Tolerance protection on individual VMs
  • Understand the purpose and use of VMware Update Manager
  • Configure VUM for correct behavior according to your vSphere environment
  • Create and update ESXi host patch baselines
  • Apply baselines to ESXi hosts or clusters and check for compliance
  • Patch and update non-compliant ESXi hosts
  • Understand ESXi use of physical CPU resources
  • Understand the five ways ESXi uses to efficiently manage memory
  • Use Overview and Advanced performance charts to monitor resource use
  • Identify and correct common performance issues

Who Should Attend

  • This course is intended for vSphere Administrators who wish to add DRS cluster, HA cluster, Fault Tolerance or VMware Update Manager capabilities to their existing vSphere environment
  • This course will also benefit vSphere Administrators who want to learn how to improve the scalability and performance of their vSphere environments

Target Audiences

  • This course is intended for vSphere Administrators who wish to add DRS cluster, HA cluster, Fault Tolerance or VMware Update Manager capabilities to their existing vSphere environment
  • This course will also benefit vSphere Administrators who want to learn how to improve the scalability and performance of their vSphere environments

VMware vSphere 6.0 is the platform businesses depend on to deploy,
manage and run their virtualized Windows and Linux workloads.

In this course
you will learn how to effectively manage host CPU/Memory resources with DRS clusters, to minimize VM downtime caused by ESXi host failures with HA clusters, to eliminate unplanned VM downtime with Fault Tolerance, to patch and update ESXi hosts with VUM and how to maximize ESXi host and VM performance.

Learn DRS & HA Clusters, Fault Tolerance, VMware Update Manager and Performance

This course covers five major topics that all vSphere 6 vCenter administrators must know:

  • We start with a thorough presentation of VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling(DRS) clusters. DRS clusters dynamically balance VM CPU and memory demands by automatically VMotionmigrating VMs experiencing CPU/Memory resource stress. We also look at Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) – a feature that lets you safely mix newer and older ESXi hosts in a DRS cluster
  • Next, we will learn how to minimize VM downtime due to unplanned ESXi host failures by implementing High Availability clusters (HA). HA clusters monitor ESXi host health, detect ESXi host failures and re-assign VM ownership from failed ESXi hosts to healthy ESXi host peers. We will also learn about key HA policies like All Paths Down and Permanent Device Loss handling – new to vSphere 6
  • We move on to look at how to completely eliminate unplanned VM downtime (even if an ESXi host fails) through VMware Fault Tolerance (FT). FT hot replicates a running VM to a peer ESXi host. If the ESXi host running the primary copy of a FT protected VM fails, FT automatically places the replicated copy into service. We’ll see how to configure, run and test FT protected VMs.
  • Next we will see how to use VMware Update Manager to safely and efficiently patch and update ESXi hosts. We will learn about Patch Baselines (patch sets), how to attach Baselines to an ESXi host or cluster, how to check for patch compliance (all needed patches present on a host) and how to patch ESXi hosts.
  • Finally, we will take a close look at ESXi host and VM performance. We will see what the VMkernel does to efficiently utilize physical CPU and how we can right size vCPU in VMs. We will see the five memory management techniquesused by the VMkernel to efficiently manage memory and how to turn on Transparent Page Sharing to maximize memory use. We will see how to configure Storage I/O Control and how to identify and fix host and VM performance bottlenecks.

The skills you will acquire in this course will help make you a more effective vSphere 6 administrator.

Added Bonus!This course is 100% downloadable. Take it with you and learn on your schedule.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: VMware vSphere 6

Lecture 3: Course Goals and Objectives

Lecture 4: Course Goals and Objectives (continued)

Lecture 5: Presented By

Lecture 6: New Skills

Lecture 7: Should You Take This Course?

Lecture 8: Let's Get Started!

Chapter 2: VMware Distributed Rescource Scheduling (DRS) Load Balanced Clusters

Lecture 1: VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduling Clusters

Lecture 2: About Distributed Resource Scheduling Clusters

Lecture 3: DRS Cluster Maximums for vSphere 6.0

Lecture 4: Creating a new DRS Load Balanced Cluster

Lecture 5: DRS Cluster Functions

Lecture 6: DRS Automation Levels

Lecture 7: Setting DRS Automation Level

Lecture 8: DRS Migration Threshold

Lecture 9: Adding ESXi Hosts to a DRS Cluster

Lecture 10: DRS Initial Power On Placement Guidance

Lecture 11: Enhanced VMotion Compatibility and AMD Opteron CPUs

Lecture 12: Enhanced VMotion Compatibility and Intel Xeon CPUs

Lecture 13: Enhanced VMotion Compatibility Benefits

Lecture 14: DRS Cluster EVC Requirements

Lecture 15: EVC Validation Successful

Lecture 16: EVC Validation Failure

Lecture 17: Mixing Server Generations within an EVC Enabled DRS Cluster

Lecture 18: DRS Affinity and Anti-Affinity Rules

Lecture 19: Per VM DRS Cluster Setting Overrides

Lecture 20: Distributed Resource Scheduling Clusters

Lecture 21: CPU and RAM Host Utilization

Lecture 22: vSphere Client Resource Allocation tab

Lecture 23: Web Client DRS Tab

Lecture 24: DRS History

Lecture 25: DRS Clusters and Resource Management

Lecture 26: Strategy for Adopting DRS

Lecture 27: DRS Best Practices

Lecture 28: DRS Lab

Lecture 29: DRS Review and Questions

Chapter 3: VMware High Availability (HA) Clusters

Lecture 1: VMware High Availability Clusters

Lecture 2: About High Availability Clusters

Lecture 3: High Availability Lab – Part 1

Lecture 4: High Availability Clusters – Virtual Machine Requirements

Lecture 5: How to Enable and Configure VMware HA

Lecture 6: ESXi Host and Hardware Monitoring

Lecture 7: Virtual Machine Monitoring

Lecture 8: Review and Set HA Failure Policies

Lecture 9: ESXi Host Failure vs. ESXi Host Isolation

Lecture 10: Permanent Device Loss (PDL)

Lecture 11: All Paths Down (APD)

Lecture 12: VM Monitoring Sensitivity

Lecture 13: Admission Control Policy

Lecture 14: Admission Control Policy Explained

Lecture 15: Admission Control Settings

Lecture 16: Admission Control – Slot Size

Lecture 17: ESXi Host Failure Options

Lecture 18: HA Cluster Network and Datastore Heartbeating

Lecture 19: HA Network Heartbeat Explained

Lecture 20: HA Datastore Heartbeats

Lecture 21: Configure Datastore Heartbeat

Lecture 22: HA VM Restart Priority

Lecture 23: HA VM Restart Best Practice

Lecture 24: Setting HA Cluster HA Restart Priority – Per VM Overrides

Lecture 25: Adjust Individual VM Restart Priority

Lecture 26: HA Cluster Overview

Lecture 27: vSphere HA Cluster Summary

Lecture 28: Impact of ESXi Host Network Isolation

Lecture 29: ESXi Host Management NIC Failure

Lecture 30: VM Powered Off when ESXi Host Running the VM is Network Isolated

Lecture 31: Change VM ESXi Host Ownership – Power VM Back On

Lecture 32: Maintenance Mode

Lecture 33: Isolation Response – Epic VM Fail

Lecture 34: Isolation Response – Best Practice

Lecture 35: Combined HA and DRS Clusters

Lecture 36: vSphere Clusters – Best Practice

Lecture 37: What's New in vSphere 6 for HA Clusters

Lecture 38: HA Disabled VM Handling

Lecture 39: VM Fault Tolerance

Lecture 40: High Availability Clusters Lab

Lecture 41: High Availability Clusters – Review and Questions

Chapter 4: VMware Fault Tolerance

Lecture 1: VMware Fault Tolerance

Lecture 2: VMware Fault Tolerance – Explained

Lecture 3: Fault Tolerance Benefits

Lecture 4: Fault Tolerance Fast Checkpointing

Lecture 5: Two ESXi Host Fault Tolerance VM Protection

Lecture 6: Three Plus ESXi Host Fault Tolerance VM Protection

Lecture 7: Fault Tolerance – Use Cases

Lecture 8: Fault Tolerance Lab – Part 1

Lecture 9: What's New in vSphere 6 for Fault Tolerance

Lecture 10: Fault Tolerance HA Cluster and ESXi Host Requirements

Lecture 11: Fault Tolerance HA Cluster Compliance Checks

Lecture 12: Fault Tolerance Virtual Machine Requirements

Lecture 13: Fault Tolerance Protected Virtual Machine Restrictions

Lecture 14: Fault Tolerance Networking – Best Practice

Lecture 15: Fault Tolerance VMkernel Port Configuration

Lecture 16: Enabling Fault Tolerance Protection on a Virtual Machine

Lecture 17: Fault Tolerance Enabled – VM Compliance Checks

Lecture 18: VM Turn On Fault Tolerance Wizard – Step 1

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