Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Module 2: Introduction to vSphere 6.5
- Discuss vSphere 6.5 feature enhancements
- Use vSphere Client, VMware Host Client, and the appliance shell of vCenter Server Appliance
Module 3: Installation and Upgrade
- Describe new vCenter Server architecture features
- Choose between a distributed configuration and an embedded configuration based on your requirements
- Describe the enhancements to vCenter Server Appliance
- Describe the vCenter Server Appliance deployment
- Describe the hardware requirements for installing vCenter Server Appliance
- Identify the information that is needed before you begin the installation
- Deploy a Platform Services Controller appliance
- Describe how to upgrade vCenter Server Appliance 5.x to vCenter Server Appliance 6.5
- Describe how to upgrade an ESXi 5.x host to an ESXi 6.5 host
- List the benefits of using the content library
- Create a basic content library
- Synchronize a content library across vCenter Server instances
Module 4: Compute Enhancements
- Discuss the enhancements to vSphere 6.5 scalability and performance
- Discuss the additional features to support hot-plug and SMART solid-state drives
- Describe new capabilities of host profiles introduced in vSphere 6.5
- Discuss the improvements to lockdown settings
- Describe the addition of smart-card authentication
- Explain the changes that enhance user accountability
- Discuss how virtual hardware 12 extends virtual machine resource configurations
- Describe how using large receive offload reduces CPU-associated costs for network packet processing
- Discuss how hot-add memory is distributed across NUMA nodes in vSphere 6.5
Module 5: Storage Enhancements
- Discuss the benefits of using VMFS 6 with vSphere
- Upgrade from VMFS 5 to VMFS 6
- Discuss the benefits of using VMFS 6 with vSphere
- Discuss the benefits of using NFS v4.1 with vSphere
- Identify the differences between NFS v3 and NFS v4.1
- Describe the implications of using NFS v4.1
- Describe the advantages of the new VMware Virsto™ on-disk file system
- Describe the advantages of the vsanSparse snapshot format
- Describe the advantages of fault domains to withstand rack-local failures
- Describe the benefits of applying different default policies to different VMware Virtual SAN™ datastores
- Describe the benefits of using virtual volumes
- Describe per virtual machine, policy-based policy management
- Describe how VMDK data operations are offloaded to storage arrays through the use of VMware vSphere® API for Storage Awareness™
Module 6: Network Enhancements
- Work with Network I/O Control
- Upgrade Network I/O Control to version 3
- Enable network resource management on VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™
- Configure bandwidth allocation for system and virtual machine traffic based on shares and reservations.
- Discuss IPv6 support in vSphere 6.5
Module 7: Management Enhancement
- List the core security modules that are part of Platform Services Controller
- List the VMware certificate management components
- Describe certificate use changes in vSphere 6.5
- List the certificate management components that are part of Platform Services Controller
- Describe the primary services provided by the VMware Certificate Authority component
- Describe the primary services provided by the VMware Endpoint Certificate Store component
- Define VMware CA certificate replacement options
- Describe ESXi certificate replacement options
- Discuss certificate-based guest authentication
Module 8: Availability Enhancements
- Describe the new TCP/IP stack for vSphere vMotion
- Explain the changes that make vSphere vMotion migrations across high-latency networks possible
- Discuss the requirements for migrating a virtual machine across vCenter Server instances
- Explain how VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance supports virtual machines with multiple virtual CPUs
- Describe how vSphere Fault Tolerance maintains the secondary virtual machine in a ready state
- Explain the mechanism by which the primary virtual machine is determined
- Discuss the improvements made in handling all paths down and permanent device lost conditions
- Describe the increased scalability of vSphere HA
- Explain the additional compatibility supported by vSphere HA
Module 9: Security Enhancements
- Plan for secure boot support for ESXi host
- Deploy enhanced vCenter Server events and alarms, and vSphere logging
- Evaluate virtual machine encryption
- Enable encrypted vSphere vMotion
- Use encrypted core dumps