Clustering with VMWare 6.5


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level


Overview/Description
In this course, you will explore the new features available when creating a vCenter 6.5 managed cluster of ESXi servers

Target Audience
IT professionals or managers considering an upgrade from previous VMware vSphere products to version 6.5

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
0.9

Lesson Objectives

Clustering with VMWare 6.5

  • start the course
  • describe the new Proactive High Availability method in vCenter 6.5
  • identify the components of HA Orchestrated Restart in vCenter 6.5
  • characterize the new improvements to HA Admission Control in vCenter 6.5
  • identify the benefits of the HA support for NVIDIA GRID vGPUs
  • identify the improvements to fault tolerant virtual machines in vCenter 6.5
  • identify the relationship between vRealize Operations Manager and Predictive DRS
  • differentiate the older DRS model from the new one based on the mathematical algorithms now used in vCenter 6.5
  • recognize the new options that have been added to ease administration in a DRS cluster
  • recognize the new metrics used to provide DRS load balancing in vCenter 6.5
  • list the advantages of using VMware vSphere Storage I/O Control using storage policy based management
  • identify the vSphere elements of Containers and Docker Integration
  • identify new features in vSphere 6.5 clustering

    • Course Number:
    vi_exvm_a04_it_enus

    Expertise Level
    Intermediate