VMware vSphere What’s New [V5.5 to V6]

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COURSE INFORMATION

VMware vSphere What’s New [V5.5 to V6] Overview:

VMware vSphere What’s New is a hands-on training course that explores the newest features and enhancements in VMware vCenter Server 6 and VMware ESXi 6. Real-world use case deployment scenarios, hands-on lab exercises, and lecture material teach the skills you need to effectively implement and configure VMware vSphere 6. This class is recommended for customers who want to deploy vSphere 6 into their existing vSphere environment.

Who Should Attend:

• vSphere administrators, systems engineers and operators who have attended vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage V5.x or have the equivalent experience.

VMware vSphere What’s New [V5.5 to V6] Prerequisites:

Before attending this course, you must have:

• vSphere 5.5 knowledge equivalent to attending vSphere Install, Configure, Manage [V5.x] and system administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

VMware vSphere What’s New [V5.5 to V6] Objectives:

After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:

• Discuss key enhancements made to vSphere in version 6
• Discuss new feature and maximum configuration allowances in vCenter Server 6
• Discuss and configure new ESXi security and account management features
• Discuss the deployment process of vSphere 6 release products
• Discuss Platform Services Controller use case scenarios and apply these in vSphere 6 environments
• Discuss the differences between VMware vSphere Client and VMware vSphere Web Client in the vSphere 6 release
• Describe and configure enhancements made to virtual machines in the vSphere 6 release
• Apply the uses and benefits of VMware vRealize Operations Manager™
• Discuss and apply storage security and policies
• Discuss and configure storage fault domains
• Discuss the benefits of and configure virtual volumes
• Discuss and apply network performance enhancements
• Describe enhancements to VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler and VMware vSphere Storage DRS in the vSphere 6 release
• Discuss and configure cross-vCenter Server systems migration
• Discuss and apply multiprocessor fault tolerance and VMware vSphere App HA enhancements

VMware vSphere What’s New [V5.5 to V6] Outline:

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course goals and objectives
• Online vSphere resources
• Location of online vSphere documentation

Module 2: Introduction to vSphere 6

• Discuss vSphere 6 feature enhancements
• Describe how vRealize Operations Manager is used to manage the software-defined data center

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

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