VMware vSphere 6.5 vs 5.5 - What's New (VMWN)

Goda kunskaper inom Vmware vSphere 5 eller certifieringen VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Virtualization  (VCP-DCV).

• List and describe key enhancements in vSphere 6.5
• Use the user interface of the new VMware vSphere® Client™, the new VMware Host Client™, and the appliance shell of VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™
• Add users to the lockdown exception users list and test the lockdown mode
• Configure virtual machines to check for and install newer versions of VMware Tools™
• Upgrade virtual machines to the current hardware
• Create a multisite content library for synchronizing virtual machine templates, vApps, ISO images, and scripts across vCenter Server instances
• Enable the VMware vSphere® Authentication Proxy service to automatically add new hosts to the Active Directory domain
• Configure NFS- and iSCSI-backed virtual volumes to provide a common storage platform, independent of the underlying storage hardware
• Create storage policies and use these policies with virtual machines and virtual volume datastores
• Work with VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control to create and configure a distributed switch
• Use VMware vSphere® vMotion® to migrate virtual machines across vCenter Server instances
  Activate the high availability feature of vCenter Server Appliance
• Back up vCenter Server Appliance by using a file-based backup solution from the vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface
• Set up your environment to encrypt and decrypt virtual machines
• Set up your environment to use encrypted vSphere vMotion to securely migrate encrypted virtual machines
• Migrate from Windows vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance
• Configure vCenter Server and associated services to use VMware Platform Services Controller™ high availability

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

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

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

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

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™

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

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

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

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