vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 07: Resource Management

1h 54mBeginner2019-10-15

Authors

Rick Crisci

Technical Trainer and Information Technology Professional

Course details

VMware vSphere is an integral part of any modern networking environment. vSphere offers a virtualized data center that helps administrators scale infrastructure to meet business needs. This course is the seventh in a nine-part series designed to teach you all the essentials of configuring, managing, securing, and troubleshooting a vSphere 6.7 environment with the new HTML5 vSphere Client. In this course, instructor Rick Crisci reviews the foundations of managing resources in vSphere 6.7—including virtual machines, hosts, shares, resource pools, and reservations. Plus, learn how to use the Distributed Resource Scheduler to create clusters, perform resource distribution, migrate hosts and resource pools, and monitor resources.

Note: This series is also designed to prepare candidates for the VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2019 (VCP-DCV 2019) exam.

Skills covered

vSphereVMwareOperations ManagementVirtualizationProject ManagementCert PrepNetwork and System AdministrationBusiness Analysis and Strategy

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Resource management

1. VM Resource Management

02 - Demo - Configuring VM reservations and limits
03 - Demo - Configuring shares on a vSphere 6.7 VM
04 - Demo - CPU hot plug and memory hot add for VMs
05 - Demo - VM Performance Charts in vSphere 6.7
06 - Resource pools and vApps
07 - Create resource pools in vSphere 6.7
08 - Expandable reservations in vSphere 6.7
09 - Configure vApps for multi-tier applications in vSphere 6.7

2. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

10 - DRS basics
11 - DRS enhancements
12 - Create a DRS cluster in vSphere 6.7
13 - DRS VM distribution and CPU over-commitment
14 - Distributed Power Management (DPM)
15 - Migrating hosts and resource pools to a DRS cluster
16 - Monitor a DRS cluster in vSphere 6.7
17 - DRS affinity rules, groups, and overrides in vSphere 6.7
18 - Maintenance mode and DRS in vSphere 6.7