VMware vSphere 6 Install, Configure, Manage - Part 2: vSphere 6 Clustering Overview/Description Target Audience Prerequisites Expected Duration Lesson Objectives Course Number Expertise Level Overview/Description
VMware vSphere 6 offers many features that provide the ability to protect and recover from various failures. This course covers important aspects of clustering basics and vMotion as well as fault tolerance requirements. You will also learn about high-availability roles and monitoring within a VMware vSphere 6 virtualized environment.
Target Audience
Virtualization and cloud administrators who install, configure, and manage vSphere installations
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
1.7
Lesson Objectives VMware vSphere 6 Install, Configure, Manage - Part 2: vSphere 6 Clustering
start the course
describe the basic process of setting up a cluster
describe limitations of a physical server environment
identify situations when it is appropriate to cluster
describe clustering fault tolerance, high availability, and Distributed Resource Scheduler
describe vMotion and perform a manual vMotion transfer
recognize characteristics of a Storage vMotion migration
identify processor, storage, and networking limitations of vMotion
describe characteristics of virtual machine fault tolerance
specify the necessary requirements for virtual machine fault tolerance
configure virtual machine fault tolerance
use VMWare to verify a fault tolerance implementation
identify best practices for fault tolerance implementation
describe the fundamentals of high availability in a virtualized environment
describe the various roles, and election process, within high availability
create a high-availability cluster in a VMWare virtualized environment
configure a high-availability cluster in a VMWare virtualized environment
describe host monitoring in a VMWare virtualized environment
recognize how admission control policies help manage hardware resources
identify high-availability VM monitoring settings
describe cluster monitoring settings in a VMWare virtualized environment
describe and configure various clustering, fault tolerance, and high-availability settings in vSphere 6
Course Number: vi_vhpp_a01_it_enus
Expertise Level
Intermediate