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VMware vSphere: Optimize

and Scale plus Troubleshooting
Fast Track

Course Overview
This five-day, accelerated, hands-on training course is a blend of the VMware vSphere®: Optimize and Scale and VMware
vSphere: Troubleshooting courses. This Fast Track course includes topics from each of these advanced courses to equip
experienced VMware administrators with the knowledge and skills to effectively optimize and troubleshoot vSphere at an
expert level.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Introduce troubleshooting principles and procedures
• Use command-line interfaces, log files, and VMware vSphere® Client™ to diagnose and resolve problems in the vSphere
environment
• Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
• Explain the purpose of key vSphere log files
• Monitor and analyze key performance indicators for compute, storage, and networking resources for VMware ESXi™
hosts
• Optimize the performance in the vSphere environment, including VMware vCenter Server®
• Identify networking problems based on reported symptoms, validate, and troubleshoot the reported problem, identify
the root cause, and implement the appropriate resolution
• Analyze storage failure scenarios using a logical troubleshooting methodology, identify the root cause, and apply the
appropriate resolution to resolve the problem
• Troubleshoot vSphere cluster failure scenarios and analyze possible causes
• Diagnose common VMware vSphere® High Availability problems and provide solutions
• Identify and validate ESXi host and vCenter Server problems, analyze failure scenarios, and select the correct resolution
• Troubleshoot virtual machine problems, including migration problems, snapshot problems, and connection problems
• Troubleshoot performance problems with vSphere components
Target Audience
• Experienced system administrators
• System engineers
• System integrators

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Prerequisites
This course requires completion of one of the following prerequisites:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]

• Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server

Experience in working at the command prompt is highly recommended.

Certifications
Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification:

• VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)

Course Delivery Options Product Alignment

• Classroom • VMware ESXi 7
• Live Online • VMware vCenter Server 7
• Onsite

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Course Modules • Use esxtop to monitor key storage performance

1 Course Introduction metrics
• Introductions and course logistics 7 Troubleshooting Storage
• Course objectives • Troubleshoot and resolve storage (iSCSI, NFS, and
2 Introduction to Troubleshooting VMware vSphere® VMFS) connectivity and
• Define the scope of troubleshooting configuration problems
• Use a structured approach to solve configuration • Analyze and resolve common VM snapshot
and operational problems problems
• Apply a troubleshooting methodology to logically • Identify and resolve multipathing-related problems,
diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting including common causes of permanent device loss
efficiency (PDL) and all paths down (APD) event problems

3 Troubleshooting Tools 8 CPU Optimization

• Use command-line tools (such as ESXCLI) to identify • Explain the CPU scheduler operation and other
and troubleshoot vSphere problems features that affect CPU performance
• Identify important vSphere log files and interpret • Explain NUMA and vNUMA support
the log file contents • Use esxtop to monitor key CPU performance
• Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware metrics
Skyline 9 Memory Optimization
• Explain how VMware Skyline works
• Explain ballooning, memory compression,
• Identify uses for Skyline Advisor transparent page sharing, and host-swapping
4 Network Optimization techniques for memory reclamation when memory
• Explain performance features of network adapters is overcommitted
• Explain the performance features of vSphere • Use esxtop to monitor key memory performance
networking metrics
• Use esxtop to monitor key network performance 10 Troubleshooting vSphere Clusters
metrics • Identify and recover from problems related to
5 Troubleshooting Virtual Networking vSphere HA
• Analyze and resolve standard switch and distributed • Analyze and resolve VMware vSphere® vMotion®
switch problems configuration and operational problems
• Analyze virtual machine connectivity problems and • Analyze and resolve common VMware vSphere®
fix them Distributed Resource Scheduler™ problems
• Examine common management network 11 Troubleshooting Virtual Machines
connectivity problems and restore configurations • Identify, analyze, and solve virtual machine
6 Storage Optimization snapshot problems
• Describe storage queue types and other factors that • Troubleshoot virtual machine power-on problems
affect storage performance • Identify possible causes and troubleshoot virtual
• Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER machine connection-state problems
technologies • Diagnose and recover from VMware Tools™
installation failures

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EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES AND DELIVERABLES
PROVIDED BY VMWARE, OR AS TO THE RESULTS WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED THEREFROM. VMWARE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY THIRD-PARTY SERVICES OR PRODUCTS IDENTIFIED OR REFERRED TO
CUSTOMER. All materials provided in this workshop are copyrighted by VMware ("Workshop Materials"). VMware grants the customer of this workshop a license to use and make reasonable copies of any Workshop Materials strictly for
the purpose of facilitating such company's internal understanding, utilization and operation of its licensed VMware product(s). Except as set forth expressly in the sentence above, there is no transfer of any intellectual property rights or
any other license granted under the terms of this workshop. If you are located in the United States, the VMware contracting entity for the service will be VMware, Inc., and if outside of the United States, the VMware contracting entity will
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12 vCenter Server Performance Optimization

• Describe the factors that influence vCenter Server
performance
• Use VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ tools to
monitor resource use

13 Troubleshooting vCenter Server and ESXi

• Analyze and fix problems with vCenter Server
services
• Diagnose and troubleshoot vCenter Server
database problems
• Examine ESXi host and vCenter Server failure
scenarios and resolve the problems
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VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto CA 94304 USA Tel 877-486-9273 Fax 650-427-5001 www.vmware.com
© 2020 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. The product or workshop materials is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed
at http://www.vmware.com/download/patents.html. VMware is a registered trademark or trademark of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be
trademarks of their respective companies.

VMware warrants that it will perform these workshop services in a reasonable manner using generally accepted industry standards and practices. THE EXPRESS WARRANTY SET FORTH IS IN LIEU OF ALL OTHER WARRANTIES,
EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES AND DELIVERABLES
PROVIDED BY VMWARE, OR AS TO THE RESULTS WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED THEREFROM. VMWARE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY THIRD-PARTY SERVICES OR PRODUCTS IDENTIFIED OR REFERRED TO
CUSTOMER. All materials provided in this workshop are copyrighted by VMware ("Workshop Materials"). VMware grants the customer of this workshop a license to use and make reasonable copies of any Workshop Materials strictly for
the purpose of facilitating such company's internal understanding, utilization and operation of its licensed VMware product(s). Except as set forth expressly in the sentence above, there is no transfer of any intellectual property rights or
any other license granted under the terms of this workshop. If you are located in the United States, the VMware contracting entity for the service will be VMware, Inc., and if outside of the United States, the VMware contracting entity will
be VMware International Limited.
VMWARE SKU: EDU-VOSTFT7-OE REV. 10/2020