Product Alignment

1. ESXi 7

2. vCenter Server 7

Course Introduction

1. Introductions and course logistics

2. Course objectives

Network Scalability

1. Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches

2. Describe how VMware vSphere Network I/O Control enhances performance

3. Explain distributed switch features such as port mirroring and NetFlow

Storage Scalability

1. Explain why VMware vSphere VMFS is a high-performance, scalable file system

2. Explain VMware vSphere Storage APIs

3. Configure and assign virtual machine storage policies

4. Create VMware vSAN storage policies

5. Configure VMware vSphere Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control

6. Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER

Host and Management Scalability

1. Use the vSphere Client to manage vSphere certificates

2. Describe identity federation and recognize its use cases

3. Configure identity federation

4. Describe the benefits and use cases of vSphere Trust Authority

5. Configure vSphere Trust Authority

6. Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance

7. Manage and update VM templates in content libraries

8. Create and manage resource pools in a cluster

CPU Optimization

1. Explain the CPU scheduler operation and other features that affect CPU performance

2. Explain NUMA and vNUMA support

3. Use esxtop to monitor key CPU performance metrics

Memory Optimization

1. Explain ballooning, memory compression, and host-swapping techniques for memory reclamation

2. Use esxtop to monitor key memory performance metrics

Storage Optimization

1. Describe storage queue types and other factors that affect storage performance

2. Use esxtop to monitor key storage performance metrics

Network Optimization

1. Explain performance features of network adapters

2. Explain the performance features of vSphere networking

3. Use esxtop to monitor key network performance metrics

vCenter Server Performance Optimization

1. Describe the factors that influence vCenter Server performance

2. Use VMware vCenter Server Appliance tools to monitor resource use

Introduction to vSphere with Kubernetes

1. Differentiate between containers and virtual machines

2. Identify the parts of a container system

3. Recognize the basic architecture of Kubernetes

4. Describe a basic Kubernetes workflow

5. Describe the purpose of vSphere with Kubernetes and how it fits into the VMware Tanzu portfolio

6. Explain the vSphere with Kubernetes supervisor cluster

7. Describe the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service