VMware vSphere 5.5 to 6.7: What’s New (VIWN)

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