Course objectives
References and resources

Deploy, configure and administer vSphere Management Assistant
Learn the esxcli and vicfg commands
Access ESXi in SHELL and SSH
Identify the ESXi and vCenter server log files
Create centralized log management via vMA

Know the performance factors in a virtual environment
Learn software and hardware virtualization techniques and their role in performance
Use vCenter and resxtop to monitor performance

Create, configure and manage distributed virtual switches
Migrate standard virtual switches to distributed virtual switches
Configure the command line network
Understand NetFlow and Port Mirroring and LACP management
Understand Private VLANs (PVLANs)
Network I / O Control

Create a network traffic analyzer
Learn about vSphere features related to network adapters
Track network performance metrics
Troubleshoot common performance issues in a network

Discover Storage Multipathing and learn how to configure it
Understand VAAI and VASA storage drivers
Create and use storage profiles for virtual machines
Understand how datastore clusters work
Install and configure VMware Storage IO Control and Storage DRS features
Learn about Virtual Volumes

Understand storage performance factors: protocols, VMFS, load-balancing
Monitor key storage metrics
Detect and troubleshoot standard storage performance issues
Deploy servers and optimize their management
Discover Platform Services Controller architectures
Use Content Libraries
Use VMware Host Profile to deploy ESXi and keep them in compliance
Create an ESXi installation image with Image Builder
Deploy ESXi hosts with vSphere Auto Deploy

Understand the features of the CPU Scheduler
Monitor CPU resources
Solve common CPU performance problems
Manage memory performance

Monitor memory-related metrics
Troubleshoot common performance issues Memory
Performance of virtual machines and clusters

Use resource pools
Define parameters to allocate resources