VMware Archive

Knowledge Identify hot keys and fields used with resxtop/esxtop Identify fields used with vscsiStats Skills and Abilities Configure esxtop/resxtop custom profiles Determine use cases for and apply esxtop/resxtop Interactive, Batch and Replay modes Use vscsiStats to gather storage performance...

Knowledge Explain DRS / storage DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules Identify required hardware components to support DPM Identify EVC requirements, baselines and components Understand the DRS / storage DRS migration algorithms, the Load Imbalance Metrics, and their impact on...

Knowledge Compare and contrast virtual and physical hardware resources Identify VMware memory management techniques Identify VMware CPU load balancing techniques Identify pre-requisites for Hot Add features Skills and Abilities Tune Virtual Machine memory configurations Tune Virtual Machine networking configurations...

Knowledge Describe the relationship between vDS and the vSS Skills and Abilities Understand the use of command line tools to configure appropriate vDS settings on an ESXi host Determine use cases for and apply Port Binding settings Configure Live...

Knowledge Identify VMware NIC Teaming policies Identify common network protocols Skills and Abilities Understand the NIC Teaming failover types and related physical network settings Determine and apply Failover settings Configure explicit failover to conform with VMware best practices Configure...

Knowledge Identify types of VLANs and PVLANs Skills and Abilities Determine use cases for and configure VLAN Trunking Determine use cases for and configure PVLANs Use command line tools to troubleshoot and identify VLAN configurations

Knowledge Identify common virtual switch configurations Skills and Abilities Configure SNMP Determine use cases for and applying VMware DirectPath I/O Migrate a vSS network to a Hybrid or Full vDS solution Configure vSS and vDS settings using command line...

Knowledge Explain the Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) layout Skills and Abilities Install and Configure PSA plug-ins Understand different multipathing policy functionalities Perform command line configuration of multipathing options Change a multipath policy Configure Software iSCSI port binding

Knowledge Identify storage provisioning methods Identify available storage monitoring tools, metrics and alarms Skills and Abilities Apply space utilization data to manage storage resources Provision and manage storage resources according to Virtual Machine requirements Understand interactions between virtual storage...