Samenvatting VCP5
,Inhoud
Hoofdstuk 1: What’s New in vSphere 5.5 ............................................................................................... 8
Hoofdstuk 2: Planning, installing, Configuring and upgrading VMware ESXI and vCenter Server ........ 10
Introducing VMware ESXI .................................................................................................................. 10
Identifying ESXi Host Requirements .............................................................................................. 10
Performing a PXE Installation of ESXi with Auto deploy ............................................................... 10
Enabling, Configuring and Disabling Hyper threading................................................................... 11
Selecting a CPU Power Management Policy.................................................................................. 11
Enabling, Sizing and Disabling Memory compression cache ......................................................... 11
Introducing vCenter Server ............................................................................................................... 11
Identifying Available vCenter Server Editions ............................................................................... 11
Identifying vCenter Server and vCenter Server Database Requirements ..................................... 11
vCenter Server Database Requirements ....................................................................................... 12
Identifying Single Sign-On requirements....................................................................................... 12
Creating a Database connection to the vCenter Server Database ................................................ 13
Sizing the vCenter Server Database .............................................................................................. 13
Installing vCenter server into a VM ............................................................................................... 13
vCenter Server User Account ........................................................................................................ 14
Deploying the vCenter Server Appliance....................................................................................... 14
Installing and Configuring the vSphere Client and vSphere web Client ........................................ 14
Describing Single Sign-on Architecture ......................................................................................... 15
Differentiating Single sign on Deployment scenarios ................................................................... 15
Installing Additional vCenter Server Components ........................................................................ 16
Installing and Removing vSphere Client Plug-ins .......................................................................... 16
Enabling and Disabling vSphere Client Plug-ins ............................................................................ 16
Licensing vCenter Server ............................................................................................................... 16
Determining Availability requirements for a vCenter server in a given vSphere implementation ... 17
Planning an Performing Upgrades of vCenter and VMware ESXi ..................................................... 17
Identifying steps required to Upgrade a vSphere implementation .............................................. 17
Hoofdstuk 3: Securing vCenter Server and ESXI and identifying vSphere Architecture and Solutions. 19
Securing vCenter Server and ESXI ..................................................................................................... 19
Configuring and Administering the ESXi Firewall .......................................................................... 19
Enabling, Configuring and Disabling service in the ESXi firewall ................................................... 19
Enabling Lockdown Mode ............................................................................................................. 19
Adding an ESXi Host to a Directory Service ................................................................................... 19
Viewing, Sorting and exporting user and Group Lists ................................................................... 20
2
, Identifying common vCenter server privileges and roles.............................................................. 20
Describing How Permissions are applied and inherited in vCenter Server ................................... 20
Determining the Appropriate set of privileges for common tasks in vCenter server ................... 20
Identifying vSphere Architecture and Solutions................................................................................ 21
Explaining ESXi and vCenter server architectures ......................................................................... 21
Determining Appropriate vSphere edition based on customer Requirements ............................ 22
Hoofdstuk 4 Planning and configuring vSphere Networking ................................................................ 23
Configuring vNetwork Standard Switches ......................................................................................... 23
Identifying vNetwork Standard Switch Capabilities ...................................................................... 23
Determining the use Case for a vNetwork standard Switch ......................................................... 23
Configuring vNetwork Distributed Switches ..................................................................................... 23
Identifying vNetwork Distributed Switch Capabilities................................................................... 23
Creating and Deleting a vNetwork Distributed Switch.................................................................. 24
Adding and Removing Uplink adapters to/from dvUplink Groups ............................................... 25
Adding, configuring and Removing dvPort Groups ....................................................................... 25
Creating, Configuring and Removing Virtual Adapters ................................................................. 25
Configuring vSS and vDS policies ....................................................................................................... 26
Identifying Common vSwitch and dvSwitch Policies ..................................................................... 26
Configuring Load Balancing and Failover Polices .......................................................................... 26
Configuring Network Security policies .......................................................................................... 27
Configuring traffic shaping polices ................................................................................................ 27
Configuring VLAN settings ............................................................................................................. 28
Determining Appropriate VLAN configuration for a vSphere implementation ............................ 28
Enabling Jumbo Frames Support on Appropriate Components.................................................... 28
Hoofdstuk 5: Planning and configuring vSphere Storage ...................................................................... 29
Configuring Shared Storage for vSphere ........................................................................................... 29
Identifying Storage Adapters and Devices .................................................................................... 29
Identifying Storage Naming conventions ...................................................................................... 29
Scanning and Rescanning Storage ................................................................................................. 29
Enabling, Configuring and Disabling vCenter server Storage Filters ............................................. 29
Describing Zoning and LUN masking Practices .............................................................................. 30
Identifying hardware/dependent hardware/software iSCSI initiator Requirements ................... 30
Determining use case for hardware dependent hardware/software iSCSI initiator..................... 30
Configuring and Editing Hardware/dependent-Hardware initiators ............................................ 30
Configuring iSCSI port Binding ....................................................................................................... 31
Enabling, Configuring and Disabling iSCSI CHAP ........................................................................... 31
3
, Configuring FC/iSCSI LUNs as ESXi Boot Devices ........................................................................... 31
Comparing and Contrasting Array Thin Provisioning and Virtual Disk Thin Provisioning ............. 32
Determining use case for and Configuring Array thin Provisioning .............................................. 32
Creating and configuring VMFS and NFS data stores ........................................................................ 32
Identifying VMFS-5 Capabilities..................................................................................................... 32
Creating, Renaming, Unmounting and Deleting a VMFS datastore .............................................. 33
Identifying VMFS Datastore Properties. ........................................................................................ 33
Extending and Expanding VMFS datastores .................................................................................. 34
Upgrading a VMFS-3 datastore to VMFS-5 ................................................................................... 34
Placing a VMFS datastore in Maintenance mode ............................................................................. 35
Determining the Appropriate path selection policy for a Given VMFS datastore ........................ 35
Creating an NFS share for use with vSphere ................................................................................. 35
Determining the Use case for Multiple VMFS/NFS datastores ..................................................... 36
Hoofdstuk 6: Creating and Deploying virtual Machines and vApps ...................................................... 37
Creating and deploying Virtual Machines ......................................................................................... 37
Identifying Capabilities of Virtual Machine hardware Versions .................................................... 37
Configuring and Deploying a Guest OS into a New VM ................................................................ 37
Upgrade VMware tools to the Latest Version ............................................................................... 37
Identifying VMware Tools Device Drivers ..................................................................................... 37
Upgrading VM hardware ............................................................................................................... 38
Configuring VM Time Synchronization .......................................................................................... 38
Identifying VM storage Resources................................................................................................. 38
Configuring and Modifying the Disk controller for Virtual Disks................................................... 38
Configuring the Appropriate Virtual Disk Type for a VM .............................................................. 39
Configuring Disk Shares ................................................................................................................. 39
Determining Appropriate Datastore Locations for VMs based on Application Workloads .......... 39
Configuring and Modifying virtual CPU and Memory resources according to OS and application
requirements ................................................................................................................................. 39
configuring and Modifying Virtual NIC adapters and connection VMs to Appropriate Network
Resources ...................................................................................................................................... 39
Converting a Physical Machine using VMware converter ............................................................. 40
Importing a supported VM source using VMware Converter: ...................................................... 40
Modifying virtual Hardware settings using VMware converter .................................................... 40
Creating and deploying vApps ........................................................................................................... 41
Determining when a tiered application should be deployed as a vApp ....................................... 41
Creating a vApp ............................................................................................................................. 41
4
, Configuring IP Pools....................................................................................................................... 41
Hoofdstuk 7: Managing and Administering Virtual Machines and vApps............................................. 42
Managing Virtual Machine Clones and Templates............................................................................ 42
Identifying Cloning and Template options .................................................................................... 42
Creating a Template form an existing VM ..................................................................................... 42
Updating Existing Virtal machine templates ................................................................................. 42
Deploying Virtual Appliances and vApps from an OVF template. ................................................. 42
Determining the Appropriate Deployment Methodology for a given VM application ................. 42
Identifying Content Types ............................................................................................................. 43
Creating a Local/Remote content library with/without external storage (VMs,ISOs,
Scripts,vApps) ................................................................................................................................ 43
Administering VMs and vApps .......................................................................................................... 44
Identifying files used by VMs......................................................................................................... 44
Identifying Location for VM configuration files and virtual disks ................................................. 44
Configuring VM options................................................................................................................. 45
Configuring VM power Settings..................................................................................................... 45
Configuring VM troubleshooting options...................................................................................... 45
Identifying Common practices for securing VMs .......................................................................... 46
Determining when an advanced VM parameter is required......................................................... 46
Hot Extending a Virtual Disk .......................................................................................................... 46
Enabling TCP segmentation Offload support for a VM ................................................................. 46
Configuring USB passthrough from an ESXi host .......................................................................... 47
Configuring Serial Port redirection ................................................................................................ 47
Hoofdstuk 8: Establishing Service Levels with Clusters, Fault Tolerance and Resource pools ............. 48
Creating and configuring VMware Clusters....................................................................................... 48
Determining the Appropriate Failover Methodology and required Resources for an HA
implementation ............................................................................................................................. 48
DRS virtual Machine Entitlement .................................................................................................. 48
Enabling and Disabling Host monitoring ....................................................................................... 48
Configuring Admission control for HA and VMs ............................................................................ 49
Enabling,configuring and disabling VM and Application monitoring ............................................ 49
Configuring Automation Levels for DRS and VMs ......................................................................... 49
Configuring Migration Thresholds for DRS and VMs..................................................................... 50
Creating VM-Host and VM-VM affinity rules ................................................................................ 50
Configuring Enhanced vMotion Compatibility .............................................................................. 50
Monitoring DRS/HA cluster ........................................................................................................... 51
5
, Configuring Storage DRS................................................................................................................ 51
Enabling BIOS P/C states ............................................................................................................... 51
Enabling, Configuring and disabling host power management and distributed power
management ................................................................................................................................. 52
Determining Appropriate Power Threshold for a Given Implementation .................................... 52
Planning and Implementing VMware Fault tolerance ...................................................................... 52
Determining use Cases for Enabling VMware fault tolerance on a VM ........................................ 52
VMware Fault Tolerance Requirements........................................................................................ 52
Creating and Administering resource pools ...................................................................................... 53
The resource Pool hierarchy.......................................................................................................... 53
The Expandable reservation parameter ........................................................................................ 53
Configuring Resource Pool attributes ........................................................................................... 53
Adding and Removing VMs to/from a resource Pool........................................................................ 53
Determining resource pool requirements for a given vSphere implementation.......................... 54
Describing vSphere Flash Read cache Architecture ...................................................................... 54
Hoofdstuk 9: Maintaining Service Levels .............................................................................................. 56
Migrating VMs ................................................................................................................................... 56
Migrating a Powered Off or suspended VM.................................................................................. 56
Esxi Host and VM requirements for vMotion and storage vMotion ............................................. 56
Backing up and Restoring VMs .......................................................................................................... 56
Identifying snapshot requirements ............................................................................................... 56
Differentiating between VDP and VDPA ....................................................................................... 57
Explaining VMware data protection Sizing Guidelines.................................................................. 58
Identifying VMware data protection requirements ...................................................................... 58
Performing a Test/live full/file-level restore wit VMware data vprotection ................................ 59
Performing a VDR data migration ................................................................................................. 59
Describing vSphere replication architecture ................................................................................. 59
Performing a Failback Operation using vSphere replication ......................................................... 59
Patching and updating ESXi and VMs ................................................................................................ 59
Patching requirements for ESXi hosts and VM hardware/tools.................................................... 59
Creating, editing and removing a Host profile from an ESXi host ................................................. 59
Creating, Editing, and Deleting an Update Manager Baseline ...................................................... 60
Hoofdstuk 10: Performing Basic Troubleshooting ................................................................................ 61
Performing Basic troubleshooting for ESXi hosts .............................................................................. 61
Troubleshooting common installation issues................................................................................ 61
Monitoring ESXi System Health ..................................................................................................... 61
6
, General ESXi host Troubleshooting Guidelines ............................................................................. 61
Performing Basic vSphere network Troubleshooting ....................................................................... 61
Verifying Network configuration ................................................................................................... 61
Troubleshooting physical network adapter configuration issues ................................................. 62
Troubleshooting Virtual Switch and Port group configuration issues........................................... 62
Verifying a give VM is configured with the correct network resources ........................................ 62
Identifying the root cause of a network issue based on troubleshooting information ................ 62
Performing basic vsphere sotrage troubleshooting .......................................................................... 63
Verifying storage configuration ..................................................................................................... 63
Troubleshooting storage contention issues .................................................................................. 63
Troubleshooting storage over commitment issues ....................................................................... 64
Performing Basic Troubleshooting for HA/DRS clusters and vMotion/storage vMotion ................. 64
HA/DRS and vMotion requirements: ............................................................................................ 64
Verifying vMotion/storage vMotion Configuration ...................................................................... 64
Verifying HA network configuration .............................................................................................. 65
Troubleshooting vMotion/Storage vMotion Migration issues ...................................................... 65
Interpret vMotion resource maps ................................................................................................. 65
Hoofdstuk 11: monitoring a vSphere implementation and Managing vCenter server Alarms ............. 66
Monitoring ESXi, vCenter server and VMs ........................................................................................ 66
How task and events are viewed in vCenter server ...................................................................... 66
Creating, Editing and deleting scheduled tasks ............................................................................. 66
Configuring user directory and SMTP settings for vCenter server ................................................ 66
Configuring vCenter server logging options .................................................................................. 67
Configuring, viewing, printing and exporting resource maps ....................................................... 67
Installing, configuring and Administering vCenter operations manager .......................................... 68
Explaining vCenter operations manager architecture .................................................................. 68
Differentiating Major/Minor vCenter operations Manager Badges ............................................. 69
Understanding Metrics used by major/Minor vCenter operations manager badges ................... 70
Monitoring a vSphere Environment .............................................................................................. 70
Creating and administering vCenter Server alarms .......................................................................... 70
Listing vCenter Default utilization alarms ..................................................................................... 70
Listing vCenter Default connectivity alarms .................................................................................. 71
Listing Possible actions for utilization and connectivity alarms .................................................... 71
Configuring Alarm types ................................................................................................................ 71
Configuring alarm actions.............................................................................................................. 72
7
, Hoofdstuk 1: What’s New in vSphere 5.5
vSphere ESXI Hypervisor Enhancements
Hot pluggable PCIe SSD Devices
Support for Reliable Memory Technology
o Is a CPU hardware feature that the ESXI hypervisor can use to place the VMkernel on
what is reported as more reliable memory.
Enhancements to CPU C-States
Virtual Machine Enhancements
VM Compatibility with VMware ESXI 5.5: or virtual machine hardware version 10.
Expanded vGPU support
Graphic Acceleration for Linux Guests
vCenter server Enhancements
vCenter Single Sign-on
vCenter Server Appliance: up to 100 hosts and 3000 vm’s. With oracle to 1000 hosts and
10.000 vms.
vSphere Web Client: on track to replace the vSphere Client. All new features can only be
managed from the web client.
vSphere App HA
HA compatibility with DRS VM-VM Affinity rules.
vSphere Big Data Extensions: management and deploy of Hadoop clusters.
Storage Enhancements
supports for 62TB VMDK
MSCS Updates: Microsoft server cluster
16GB E2E support:
PDL Auto Remove: helps prevent an all paths down event on an ESXI host.
vSphere Replication Interoperability: to allow VM at the primary site to be migrated with
storage vMotion and participate in storage DRS data store clusters.
vSphere Replication Mutli-point-in-Time(MPIT) Snapshot Retention
VAAI UNMAP Improvements: vStorage APIs for array integration. UNMAP now the reclaim
size is specified as blocks rather than a percentage value. Dead space is also now claimed in
increments rather than all at once.
VMFS Heap Improvements: no longer a need for large heap sizes.
vSphere Flash read cache:
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,Inhoud
Hoofdstuk 1: What’s New in vSphere 5.5 ............................................................................................... 8
Hoofdstuk 2: Planning, installing, Configuring and upgrading VMware ESXI and vCenter Server ........ 10
Introducing VMware ESXI .................................................................................................................. 10
Identifying ESXi Host Requirements .............................................................................................. 10
Performing a PXE Installation of ESXi with Auto deploy ............................................................... 10
Enabling, Configuring and Disabling Hyper threading................................................................... 11
Selecting a CPU Power Management Policy.................................................................................. 11
Enabling, Sizing and Disabling Memory compression cache ......................................................... 11
Introducing vCenter Server ............................................................................................................... 11
Identifying Available vCenter Server Editions ............................................................................... 11
Identifying vCenter Server and vCenter Server Database Requirements ..................................... 11
vCenter Server Database Requirements ....................................................................................... 12
Identifying Single Sign-On requirements....................................................................................... 12
Creating a Database connection to the vCenter Server Database ................................................ 13
Sizing the vCenter Server Database .............................................................................................. 13
Installing vCenter server into a VM ............................................................................................... 13
vCenter Server User Account ........................................................................................................ 14
Deploying the vCenter Server Appliance....................................................................................... 14
Installing and Configuring the vSphere Client and vSphere web Client ........................................ 14
Describing Single Sign-on Architecture ......................................................................................... 15
Differentiating Single sign on Deployment scenarios ................................................................... 15
Installing Additional vCenter Server Components ........................................................................ 16
Installing and Removing vSphere Client Plug-ins .......................................................................... 16
Enabling and Disabling vSphere Client Plug-ins ............................................................................ 16
Licensing vCenter Server ............................................................................................................... 16
Determining Availability requirements for a vCenter server in a given vSphere implementation ... 17
Planning an Performing Upgrades of vCenter and VMware ESXi ..................................................... 17
Identifying steps required to Upgrade a vSphere implementation .............................................. 17
Hoofdstuk 3: Securing vCenter Server and ESXI and identifying vSphere Architecture and Solutions. 19
Securing vCenter Server and ESXI ..................................................................................................... 19
Configuring and Administering the ESXi Firewall .......................................................................... 19
Enabling, Configuring and Disabling service in the ESXi firewall ................................................... 19
Enabling Lockdown Mode ............................................................................................................. 19
Adding an ESXi Host to a Directory Service ................................................................................... 19
Viewing, Sorting and exporting user and Group Lists ................................................................... 20
2
, Identifying common vCenter server privileges and roles.............................................................. 20
Describing How Permissions are applied and inherited in vCenter Server ................................... 20
Determining the Appropriate set of privileges for common tasks in vCenter server ................... 20
Identifying vSphere Architecture and Solutions................................................................................ 21
Explaining ESXi and vCenter server architectures ......................................................................... 21
Determining Appropriate vSphere edition based on customer Requirements ............................ 22
Hoofdstuk 4 Planning and configuring vSphere Networking ................................................................ 23
Configuring vNetwork Standard Switches ......................................................................................... 23
Identifying vNetwork Standard Switch Capabilities ...................................................................... 23
Determining the use Case for a vNetwork standard Switch ......................................................... 23
Configuring vNetwork Distributed Switches ..................................................................................... 23
Identifying vNetwork Distributed Switch Capabilities................................................................... 23
Creating and Deleting a vNetwork Distributed Switch.................................................................. 24
Adding and Removing Uplink adapters to/from dvUplink Groups ............................................... 25
Adding, configuring and Removing dvPort Groups ....................................................................... 25
Creating, Configuring and Removing Virtual Adapters ................................................................. 25
Configuring vSS and vDS policies ....................................................................................................... 26
Identifying Common vSwitch and dvSwitch Policies ..................................................................... 26
Configuring Load Balancing and Failover Polices .......................................................................... 26
Configuring Network Security policies .......................................................................................... 27
Configuring traffic shaping polices ................................................................................................ 27
Configuring VLAN settings ............................................................................................................. 28
Determining Appropriate VLAN configuration for a vSphere implementation ............................ 28
Enabling Jumbo Frames Support on Appropriate Components.................................................... 28
Hoofdstuk 5: Planning and configuring vSphere Storage ...................................................................... 29
Configuring Shared Storage for vSphere ........................................................................................... 29
Identifying Storage Adapters and Devices .................................................................................... 29
Identifying Storage Naming conventions ...................................................................................... 29
Scanning and Rescanning Storage ................................................................................................. 29
Enabling, Configuring and Disabling vCenter server Storage Filters ............................................. 29
Describing Zoning and LUN masking Practices .............................................................................. 30
Identifying hardware/dependent hardware/software iSCSI initiator Requirements ................... 30
Determining use case for hardware dependent hardware/software iSCSI initiator..................... 30
Configuring and Editing Hardware/dependent-Hardware initiators ............................................ 30
Configuring iSCSI port Binding ....................................................................................................... 31
Enabling, Configuring and Disabling iSCSI CHAP ........................................................................... 31
3
, Configuring FC/iSCSI LUNs as ESXi Boot Devices ........................................................................... 31
Comparing and Contrasting Array Thin Provisioning and Virtual Disk Thin Provisioning ............. 32
Determining use case for and Configuring Array thin Provisioning .............................................. 32
Creating and configuring VMFS and NFS data stores ........................................................................ 32
Identifying VMFS-5 Capabilities..................................................................................................... 32
Creating, Renaming, Unmounting and Deleting a VMFS datastore .............................................. 33
Identifying VMFS Datastore Properties. ........................................................................................ 33
Extending and Expanding VMFS datastores .................................................................................. 34
Upgrading a VMFS-3 datastore to VMFS-5 ................................................................................... 34
Placing a VMFS datastore in Maintenance mode ............................................................................. 35
Determining the Appropriate path selection policy for a Given VMFS datastore ........................ 35
Creating an NFS share for use with vSphere ................................................................................. 35
Determining the Use case for Multiple VMFS/NFS datastores ..................................................... 36
Hoofdstuk 6: Creating and Deploying virtual Machines and vApps ...................................................... 37
Creating and deploying Virtual Machines ......................................................................................... 37
Identifying Capabilities of Virtual Machine hardware Versions .................................................... 37
Configuring and Deploying a Guest OS into a New VM ................................................................ 37
Upgrade VMware tools to the Latest Version ............................................................................... 37
Identifying VMware Tools Device Drivers ..................................................................................... 37
Upgrading VM hardware ............................................................................................................... 38
Configuring VM Time Synchronization .......................................................................................... 38
Identifying VM storage Resources................................................................................................. 38
Configuring and Modifying the Disk controller for Virtual Disks................................................... 38
Configuring the Appropriate Virtual Disk Type for a VM .............................................................. 39
Configuring Disk Shares ................................................................................................................. 39
Determining Appropriate Datastore Locations for VMs based on Application Workloads .......... 39
Configuring and Modifying virtual CPU and Memory resources according to OS and application
requirements ................................................................................................................................. 39
configuring and Modifying Virtual NIC adapters and connection VMs to Appropriate Network
Resources ...................................................................................................................................... 39
Converting a Physical Machine using VMware converter ............................................................. 40
Importing a supported VM source using VMware Converter: ...................................................... 40
Modifying virtual Hardware settings using VMware converter .................................................... 40
Creating and deploying vApps ........................................................................................................... 41
Determining when a tiered application should be deployed as a vApp ....................................... 41
Creating a vApp ............................................................................................................................. 41
4
, Configuring IP Pools....................................................................................................................... 41
Hoofdstuk 7: Managing and Administering Virtual Machines and vApps............................................. 42
Managing Virtual Machine Clones and Templates............................................................................ 42
Identifying Cloning and Template options .................................................................................... 42
Creating a Template form an existing VM ..................................................................................... 42
Updating Existing Virtal machine templates ................................................................................. 42
Deploying Virtual Appliances and vApps from an OVF template. ................................................. 42
Determining the Appropriate Deployment Methodology for a given VM application ................. 42
Identifying Content Types ............................................................................................................. 43
Creating a Local/Remote content library with/without external storage (VMs,ISOs,
Scripts,vApps) ................................................................................................................................ 43
Administering VMs and vApps .......................................................................................................... 44
Identifying files used by VMs......................................................................................................... 44
Identifying Location for VM configuration files and virtual disks ................................................. 44
Configuring VM options................................................................................................................. 45
Configuring VM power Settings..................................................................................................... 45
Configuring VM troubleshooting options...................................................................................... 45
Identifying Common practices for securing VMs .......................................................................... 46
Determining when an advanced VM parameter is required......................................................... 46
Hot Extending a Virtual Disk .......................................................................................................... 46
Enabling TCP segmentation Offload support for a VM ................................................................. 46
Configuring USB passthrough from an ESXi host .......................................................................... 47
Configuring Serial Port redirection ................................................................................................ 47
Hoofdstuk 8: Establishing Service Levels with Clusters, Fault Tolerance and Resource pools ............. 48
Creating and configuring VMware Clusters....................................................................................... 48
Determining the Appropriate Failover Methodology and required Resources for an HA
implementation ............................................................................................................................. 48
DRS virtual Machine Entitlement .................................................................................................. 48
Enabling and Disabling Host monitoring ....................................................................................... 48
Configuring Admission control for HA and VMs ............................................................................ 49
Enabling,configuring and disabling VM and Application monitoring ............................................ 49
Configuring Automation Levels for DRS and VMs ......................................................................... 49
Configuring Migration Thresholds for DRS and VMs..................................................................... 50
Creating VM-Host and VM-VM affinity rules ................................................................................ 50
Configuring Enhanced vMotion Compatibility .............................................................................. 50
Monitoring DRS/HA cluster ........................................................................................................... 51
5
, Configuring Storage DRS................................................................................................................ 51
Enabling BIOS P/C states ............................................................................................................... 51
Enabling, Configuring and disabling host power management and distributed power
management ................................................................................................................................. 52
Determining Appropriate Power Threshold for a Given Implementation .................................... 52
Planning and Implementing VMware Fault tolerance ...................................................................... 52
Determining use Cases for Enabling VMware fault tolerance on a VM ........................................ 52
VMware Fault Tolerance Requirements........................................................................................ 52
Creating and Administering resource pools ...................................................................................... 53
The resource Pool hierarchy.......................................................................................................... 53
The Expandable reservation parameter ........................................................................................ 53
Configuring Resource Pool attributes ........................................................................................... 53
Adding and Removing VMs to/from a resource Pool........................................................................ 53
Determining resource pool requirements for a given vSphere implementation.......................... 54
Describing vSphere Flash Read cache Architecture ...................................................................... 54
Hoofdstuk 9: Maintaining Service Levels .............................................................................................. 56
Migrating VMs ................................................................................................................................... 56
Migrating a Powered Off or suspended VM.................................................................................. 56
Esxi Host and VM requirements for vMotion and storage vMotion ............................................. 56
Backing up and Restoring VMs .......................................................................................................... 56
Identifying snapshot requirements ............................................................................................... 56
Differentiating between VDP and VDPA ....................................................................................... 57
Explaining VMware data protection Sizing Guidelines.................................................................. 58
Identifying VMware data protection requirements ...................................................................... 58
Performing a Test/live full/file-level restore wit VMware data vprotection ................................ 59
Performing a VDR data migration ................................................................................................. 59
Describing vSphere replication architecture ................................................................................. 59
Performing a Failback Operation using vSphere replication ......................................................... 59
Patching and updating ESXi and VMs ................................................................................................ 59
Patching requirements for ESXi hosts and VM hardware/tools.................................................... 59
Creating, editing and removing a Host profile from an ESXi host ................................................. 59
Creating, Editing, and Deleting an Update Manager Baseline ...................................................... 60
Hoofdstuk 10: Performing Basic Troubleshooting ................................................................................ 61
Performing Basic troubleshooting for ESXi hosts .............................................................................. 61
Troubleshooting common installation issues................................................................................ 61
Monitoring ESXi System Health ..................................................................................................... 61
6
, General ESXi host Troubleshooting Guidelines ............................................................................. 61
Performing Basic vSphere network Troubleshooting ....................................................................... 61
Verifying Network configuration ................................................................................................... 61
Troubleshooting physical network adapter configuration issues ................................................. 62
Troubleshooting Virtual Switch and Port group configuration issues........................................... 62
Verifying a give VM is configured with the correct network resources ........................................ 62
Identifying the root cause of a network issue based on troubleshooting information ................ 62
Performing basic vsphere sotrage troubleshooting .......................................................................... 63
Verifying storage configuration ..................................................................................................... 63
Troubleshooting storage contention issues .................................................................................. 63
Troubleshooting storage over commitment issues ....................................................................... 64
Performing Basic Troubleshooting for HA/DRS clusters and vMotion/storage vMotion ................. 64
HA/DRS and vMotion requirements: ............................................................................................ 64
Verifying vMotion/storage vMotion Configuration ...................................................................... 64
Verifying HA network configuration .............................................................................................. 65
Troubleshooting vMotion/Storage vMotion Migration issues ...................................................... 65
Interpret vMotion resource maps ................................................................................................. 65
Hoofdstuk 11: monitoring a vSphere implementation and Managing vCenter server Alarms ............. 66
Monitoring ESXi, vCenter server and VMs ........................................................................................ 66
How task and events are viewed in vCenter server ...................................................................... 66
Creating, Editing and deleting scheduled tasks ............................................................................. 66
Configuring user directory and SMTP settings for vCenter server ................................................ 66
Configuring vCenter server logging options .................................................................................. 67
Configuring, viewing, printing and exporting resource maps ....................................................... 67
Installing, configuring and Administering vCenter operations manager .......................................... 68
Explaining vCenter operations manager architecture .................................................................. 68
Differentiating Major/Minor vCenter operations Manager Badges ............................................. 69
Understanding Metrics used by major/Minor vCenter operations manager badges ................... 70
Monitoring a vSphere Environment .............................................................................................. 70
Creating and administering vCenter Server alarms .......................................................................... 70
Listing vCenter Default utilization alarms ..................................................................................... 70
Listing vCenter Default connectivity alarms .................................................................................. 71
Listing Possible actions for utilization and connectivity alarms .................................................... 71
Configuring Alarm types ................................................................................................................ 71
Configuring alarm actions.............................................................................................................. 72
7
, Hoofdstuk 1: What’s New in vSphere 5.5
vSphere ESXI Hypervisor Enhancements
Hot pluggable PCIe SSD Devices
Support for Reliable Memory Technology
o Is a CPU hardware feature that the ESXI hypervisor can use to place the VMkernel on
what is reported as more reliable memory.
Enhancements to CPU C-States
Virtual Machine Enhancements
VM Compatibility with VMware ESXI 5.5: or virtual machine hardware version 10.
Expanded vGPU support
Graphic Acceleration for Linux Guests
vCenter server Enhancements
vCenter Single Sign-on
vCenter Server Appliance: up to 100 hosts and 3000 vm’s. With oracle to 1000 hosts and
10.000 vms.
vSphere Web Client: on track to replace the vSphere Client. All new features can only be
managed from the web client.
vSphere App HA
HA compatibility with DRS VM-VM Affinity rules.
vSphere Big Data Extensions: management and deploy of Hadoop clusters.
Storage Enhancements
supports for 62TB VMDK
MSCS Updates: Microsoft server cluster
16GB E2E support:
PDL Auto Remove: helps prevent an all paths down event on an ESXI host.
vSphere Replication Interoperability: to allow VM at the primary site to be migrated with
storage vMotion and participate in storage DRS data store clusters.
vSphere Replication Mutli-point-in-Time(MPIT) Snapshot Retention
VAAI UNMAP Improvements: vStorage APIs for array integration. UNMAP now the reclaim
size is specified as blocks rather than a percentage value. Dead space is also now claimed in
increments rather than all at once.
VMFS Heap Improvements: no longer a need for large heap sizes.
vSphere Flash read cache:
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