Before We Start
  • Introduction to this Course
  • Your Feedback is Important
Rebuild the Home Lab
  • The Network configuration for the Lab (Redundancy)
  • Configuring iSCSI Adapters and Storage
  • Multipathing with iSCSI SAN
  • Network Port Binding Path Status
  • Connect Shared Storage Devices to vSphere
VMotion And Storage VMotion
  • Introduction to VMotion and Storage VMotion
  • Storage VMotion: Migrating VM on Local Storage to Shared Storage
  • VMotion: Migrate a Virtual Machine to a New Compute Resource
  • Migrate a Virtual Machine to a New Compute Resource and Storage
  • Migration with vMotion in Environments Without Shared Storage
VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling: DRS & Storage DRS
  • Introduction To DRS & Storage DRS
  • Determine How DRS & SDRS Are Applicable To An Environment
  • DRS Affinity / Anti-Affinity Rules
  • Storage DRS Affinity / Anti-Affinity Rules
  • Create and Configure VMware Clusters
  • DRS Automation Level and Migration Threshold
  • Configure vSphere Predictive DRS and VM Automation Levels
  • VM Distribution; Memory Metric for Load Balancing; CPU Over-Commitment
  • Distributed Power Management (DPM) Automation Level and Threshold
  • Turn ON vSphere DRS on Our Home LAB
  • Hot Migration: Live VM on ESXi 1 to ESXi 2
  • Create a VM-VM Affinity & Anti-Affinity Rule: Separate & Keep VMs Together
  • Add VM overrides
  • Create VM/Host Anti-Affinity Rule: Should and Must Not Run on Host in Group
  • Create VM/Host Affinity Rule: Should and Must Run on Host in Group
  • DRS Monitoring And Recommendations
  • Creating a Datastore Cluster with Storage DRS
  • Execute Storage vMotion For Storage DRS Rules
VSphere High Availability: HA
  • The Purpose of vSphere High Availability
  • Enhanced Availability in Case of Hardware Failure
  • Host Failure and Isolation Detection: Master & Slave Hosts
  • vSphere HA and VM/Host Rules
  • vSphere HA Respond to Host Failure and Isolation
  • Datastore With PDL and APD Failure Response
  • VM and Application Monitoring: Heartbeat Sensitivity
  • Proactive HA Failures and Responses
  • vSphere HA Admission Control
  • Host Failures Cluster Tolerates Admission Control Policy
  • Dedicated Failover Hosts
  • Slot Policy Admission Control
  • Performance Degradation VMs tolerate
  • Configure Datastore Heartbeating
  • Enabling VMware High Availability on Our Home LAB
  • vSphere-HA folder And Protected List File
  • vSphere HA Initiated a Failover Action on Virtual Machines
  • vSphere HA Summary
  • Running DRS When The Host Back To The Life
vSphere Resource Pool and vAPP
  • Introduction To Resource Pool
  • Resource Allocation Shares
  • Understanding Resource Shares Value
  • vApp Overview
  • Creating and Configuring Resource Pools
  • Resource Pool Reservation and Limit Expandable
  • Add Virtual Machines to a Resource Pool
  • Creating and Configuring vAPP
  • Configure vApp Startup and Shutdown Options
Virtual Machine Hardware Settings
  • Configuring Virtual Machine Options: Guest OS Version
  • Shares, Reservation, Limits -CPU/Memory Resource settings
  • Hard Disk: Shares, Limits IOPs and Flash Read Cache
  • Shared Disk Between VMs
  • Independent Disks & Persistent And Non-Persistent Modes
  • SCSI Controller, Network Adapter, DVD drive, And other Devices
  • Increase CPU while VM is Running: CPU Hot Add
  • Increase Memory while VM is Running: Memory Hot Plug
  • Increasing the size and the number of a virtual disks
  • Adding New Devices to Virtual Machines
  • Add an Existing Hard Disk to a Virtual Machine
  • Add USB Devices from an ESXi Host to a Virtual Machine
  • Vmware Remote Console: Number of Sessions and Power Operations
  • Power Management, Boot and vAPP Options
Virtual Machines Snapshots
  • Understanding VM Snapshots
  • The Purpose of VM Snapshots
  • Taking a VM Snapshot
  • Revert to the Latest Snapshot
  • Taking Multiple Snapshots
  • Going Back And Forth Between Different Snapshots
  • Consolidate And Remove All VM Snapshots
Virtual Machine Full And Linked Clone
  • VM Full Clone Overview
  • VM Linked Clone Overview
  • When shall I Use Linked vs Full VM Clones
  • Duplicate Virtual Machine
  • Cloning A Virtual Machine
  • Cloning A vApp
VMware Fault Tolerance
  • The Purpose of Fault Tolerance
  • Enabling Fault Tolerance Service
  • Fault Tolerance Troubleshooting Issues
  • Turn On Fault Tolerance for Virtual Machines
  • Primary And Secondary VM