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Price
USD $5,600
CAD $5,600
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Special notes
This HK988S course is a fast-paced offering with extended hours (10 hours/day –including on the last day)
This course combines 7days worth content from the 4day HH642S VMware vSphere Troubleshooting course and the 3day HH643S VMware vSphere Performance course
HK988S/SR open-enrollment format course price also includes a free VCAP-DCA Exam Voucher ($399 value)
Course overview
This fast-paced, extended-hour, lab-intensive course includes the content of the VMware vSphere: Manage for Performance and VMware vSphere:Troubleshooting courses. This course provides the knowledge and skills necessary to make fundamental design decisions that enhance performance and meet performance goals in an already-deployed VMware vSphere™ installation. This course also provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the vSphere virtual infrastructure. This course is 35% lecture, and 65% hands-on lab.
System administrators, systems engineers,
consultants, or help desk personnel who
need the knowledge, skills, and abilities to
troubleshoot performance, configuration, or
operational problems in vSphere
deployments
Ways to save
Save with the HP Care Pack education service offerings
Use vSphere tools to monitor the performance of VMware ESX™/ESXi hosts
Diagnose performance problems relating to CPU, memory, network, and storage on an ESX/ESXi host
Discuss guidelines for monitoring application performance
Use the VMware vSphere Client and command-line utilities to diagnose and rectify ESX/ESXi, VMware vMotion™, VMware Storage vMotion, VMware High Availability, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler, and virtual machine power-on problems
Use ESXi technical support mode to diagnose and rectify problems on ESXi
Create and use a network packet capture utility to capture and display virtual switch network traffic
Course outline
Manage for Performance Modules
Module 1: Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
Module 2: Performance in a Virtualized Environment
Discuss the vSphere performance troubleshooting methodology
Discuss software and hardware virtualization techniques and their impact on performance
Monitor performance using vCenter Server performance charts and the ESX/ESXi resxtop command
Module 3: CPU Performance
Discuss the CPU scheduler and other features that have an impact on CPU performance
Monitor key CPU performance metrics
Troubleshoot common CPU performance problems
Module 4: Memory Performance
Discuss memory reclamation techniques and memory overcommitment
Monitor key memory performance metrics
Troubleshoot common memory performance problems
Module 5: Guidelines for DRS and Resource Controls
Discuss performance guidelines for DRS clusters, resource pools, and resource allocation settings
Module 6: Network Performance
Discuss the performance features of modern network adapters
Monitor key network performance metrics
Troubleshoot common network performance problems
Module 7: Storage Performance
Discuss how storage protocols, VMware vStorage VMFS configuration, load balancing, and queuing affect performance
Monitor key storage performance metrics
Troubleshoot common storage performance problems
Module 8: Virtual Machine Performance
Discuss guidelines for configuring a virtual machine for optimal performance
Module 9: Application Performance
Discuss tools and guidelines for application performance
