About this Course

VMware vSphere: What’s New is a hands-on training course that explores the newest features and enhancements in VMware vCenter Server™ 6 and VMware ESXi™ 6. Real-world use case deployment scenarios, hands-on lab exercises, and lecture material teach the skills you need to effectively implement and configure VMware vSphere® 6. This class is recommended for customers who want to deploy vSphere 6 into their existing vSphere environment. Successful completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite to take the VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) certification exam.

Audience Profile

• System Administrator
• Systems Engineer
• System Architects
• Data Center Operations Professionals
• Technology Professionals seeking VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) certification
• Systems Operators responsible for ESXi and vCenter Server

At Course Completion

Upon successful completion of this course and it's labs you will be able to:

• Discuss key enhancements made to vSphere in version 6
• Discuss new feature and maximum configuration allowances in vCenter Server 6
• Discuss and configure new ESXi security and account management features
• Discuss the deployment process of vSphere 6 release products
• Discuss Platform Services Controller use case scenarios and apply these in vSphere 6 environments
• Discuss the differences between VMware vSphere® Client™ and VMware vSphere® Web Client in the vSphere 6 release
• Describe and configure enhancements made to virtual machines in the vSphere 6 release
• Apply the uses and benefits of VMware vRealize™ Operations Manager™
• Discuss and apply storage security and policies
• Discuss and configure storage fault domains
• Discuss the benefits of and configure virtual volumes
• Discuss and apply network performance enhancements
• Describe enhancements to VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ and VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ in the vSphere 6 release
• Discuss and configure cross-vCenter Server systems migration
• Discuss and apply multiprocessor fault tolerance and VMware vSphere® App HA enhancements

Prerequisites

Attendance at one of these VMware vSphere 5 courses:

• VMware vSphere 5.x: Install, Configure, Manage
• VMware vSphere 5.x: Fast Track
• VMware vSphere 5.x: What’s New

Or equivalent vSphere 5.5 administration experience

Course Outline

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course goals and objectives
• Online vSphere resources
• Location of online vSphere documentation

Module 2: Introducing VMware vSphere 6

• Discuss vSphere 6 feature enhancements
• Discuss vSphere 6 installation and upgrade differences
• Describe and apply ESXi lockdown mode
• Discuss and apply ESXi account management
• Discuss the integration and benefits of VMware vCloud® Air™

Module 3: vCenter Server 6

• Discuss the new features and benefits of vCenter Server 6
• Use the new installation process to deploy vCenter Server
• Apply vCenter Server configuration maximums
• Use Platform Services Controller to manage system services
• Use VMware Certificate Authority and VMware Endpoint Certificate Services to manage certificate lifecycles
• Use the vSphere Web Client to apply enhanced performance configurations

Module 4: Virtual Machine Enhancements

• Use virtual hardware version 11 enhancements to virtual machines in the vSphere 6 release

Module 5: Management Enhancements

• Discuss VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control features
• Describe changes between Network I/O Control version 2 and Network I/O Control version 3
• Apply virtual machine and distributed switch bandwidth configuration changes to increase performance
• Describe IPv6 use cases in the vSphere environment

Module 6: Storage Enhancements

• Define key storage security enhancements made to the storage stack supported by vSphere 6
• Discuss changes in lease management, share reservation, and authentication Remote Procedure Call authentication brought by the vSphere NFS 4.1 client for datastores
• Describe and apply disk and storage bandwidth configuration to improve performance
• Describe the differences between VMware Virtual SAN™ version 1 and Virtual SAN version 2
• Create virtual machine storage policies
• Create fault domains
• Describe the ways that Virtual Volumes changes how virtual machine storage is presented and managed
• Create, discover, and connect to storage containers

Module 7: Network Enhancements

• Discuss Network I/O Control features
• Describe changes between Network I/O Control version 2 and version 3
• Discuss virtual machine and distributed switch bandwidth configuration changes to increase performance
• Discuss IPv6 use cases in the vSphere environment

Module 8: Scalability Enhancements

• Discuss and apply vSphere DRS enhancements
• Discuss and apply vSphere Storage DRS enhancements

Module 9: Availability Enhancements

• Configure cross-vCenter Server system migration
• Discuss multiprocessor fault tolerance features in vSphere 6
• Discuss enhancements to App HA in vSphere 6