VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale

VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale is designed for experienced VMware vSphere® users. It teaches advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you will configure and optimize the vSphere features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. Anyone who is ready to take their understanding of vSphere to a deeper level and learn how to use advanced features and controls will greatly benefit from this course. The course is based on VMware ESXi™ 6 and VMware vCenter Server™ 6.

This course prepares you for the following certification: VMware Certified Professional 6.5 - Data Center Virtualization (VCP6.5-DCV)

• System Administrator
• Systems Engineer
• Data Center Operations Professionals
• Technology Professionals seeking certification

Required prerequisites include completion of one of the following courses:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (VICM)
• VMware vSphere: Fast Track (VVFT)
• Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server
• Experience working at the command prompt is highly recommended.

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

• Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
• Manage changes to the vSphere environment
• Optimize the performance of all vSphere components
• Harden the vSphere environment against security threats
• Troubleshoot operational faults and identify their root causes
• Use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Shell and VMware vSphere® Management Assistant to manage vSphere
• Use VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to provision ESXi hosts

Note: About one-third of the VMware vSphere 5.5 to 6.7: What’s New (VIWN) course content is repeated in this course. The scalability topics in VMware vSphere: Fast Track (VVFT) are repeated in this course.