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VMware vSphere 5.5 to 6.7: What’s New (VIWN)
Course Description | Schedule | Course Outline |
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Detailed Course Outline
1 Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course goals and objectives
- Online vSphere resources
- Location of online vSphere documentation
2 Introduction to vSphere 6
- Discuss vSphere 6 feature enhancements
- Describe how vRealize Operations Manager is used to manage the software-defined data center
3 Install and Upgrade
- Discuss the differences between vSphere 5.5 and vSphere 6 installation process.
- Confirm the system requirements for each component of vSphere 6
- Determine which vCenter Server deployment mode is required.
- Discuss the vSphere 6 upgrade process
- Discuss vSphere 6 installation media
- Determine the correct database option for various deployment scenarios of vSphere 6
4 Compute Enhancements
- Discuss the enhancements to vSphere 6 scalability and performance
- Discuss the additional features to support hot-plug and SMART solid-state drives
- Discuss the improvements to lockdown settings
- Discuss how virtual hardware 11 extends virtual machine resource configurations
- Discuss how hot-add memory is distributed across NUMA nodes in vSphere 6
5 Management Enhancements
- Discuss VMware vCenter™ Single Sign-On™ authentication process
- Discuss new features of vSphere 6 Certificate Authority
- Discuss certificate-based guest authorization
- Discuss how ESXi hosts and vCenter Server communicate securely over SSL
- Describe changes for ESXi certificate replacement
- Discuss upgrading the vSphere License Service
- License ESXi 6 and vCenter Server by using the vSphere Web Client
6 Storage Enhancements
- Discuss VMware vSphere® API for Storage Awareness™
- Configure storage-based policies
- Discuss share reservations and file locking
- Discuss the benefits and effects of NFS 4.1 with vSphere.
- Discuss Kerberos and Remote Procedure Call (RPC) header authentication
7 Network Enhancements
- Work with Network I/O Control
- Upgrade Network I/O Control to version 3
- Enable network resource management on a vSphere distributed switch
- Configure bandwidth allocation for system and virtual machine traffic based on shares, reservations, and limits
- Discuss how IPv6 is supported in the vSphere 6 release
8 Availability Enhancements
- Discuss enhancements made to vSphere vMotion
- Migrate virtual machine across vCenter Server instances by using vSphere vMotion
- Discuss the multiprocessor fault tolerance features and symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) capabilities in vSphere 6
- Discuss the benefits of VMware vCloud® Air™
- Describe how vCloud Air integrates with vSphere 6