vSphere: What is New V5.5 to V6.7 (EDU-VSWN67)

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