Introduction
  • Introduction
  • VMware vSphere 6
  • Course Goals and Objectives
  • Course Goals and Objectives (continued)
  • Presented By
  • New Skills
  • Should You Take This Course?
  • Let's Get Started!
VMware Distributed Rescource Scheduling (DRS) Load Balanced Clusters
  • VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduling Clusters
  • About Distributed Resource Scheduling Clusters
  • DRS Cluster Maximums for vSphere 6.0
  • Creating a new DRS Load Balanced Cluster
  • DRS Cluster Functions
  • DRS Automation Levels
  • Setting DRS Automation Level
  • DRS Migration Threshold
  • Adding ESXi Hosts to a DRS Cluster
  • DRS Initial Power On Placement Guidance
  • Enhanced VMotion Compatibility and AMD Opteron CPUs
  • Enhanced VMotion Compatibility and Intel Xeon CPUs
  • Enhanced VMotion Compatibility Benefits
  • DRS Cluster EVC Requirements
  • EVC Validation Successful
  • EVC Validation Failure
  • Mixing Server Generations within an EVC Enabled DRS Cluster
  • DRS Affinity and Anti-Affinity Rules
  • Per VM DRS Cluster Setting Overrides
  • Distributed Resource Scheduling Clusters
  • CPU and RAM Host Utilization
  • vSphere Client Resource Allocation tab
  • Web Client DRS Tab
  • DRS History
  • DRS Clusters and Resource Management
  • Strategy for Adopting DRS
  • DRS Best Practices
  • DRS Lab
  • DRS Review and Questions
VMware High Availability (HA) Clusters
  • VMware High Availability Clusters
  • About High Availability Clusters
  • High Availability Lab - Part 1
  • High Availability Clusters - Virtual Machine Requirements
  • How to Enable and Configure VMware HA
  • ESXi Host and Hardware Monitoring
  • Virtual Machine Monitoring
  • Review and Set HA Failure Policies
  • ESXi Host Failure vs. ESXi Host Isolation
  • Permanent Device Loss (PDL)
  • All Paths Down (APD)
  • VM Monitoring Sensitivity
  • Admission Control Policy
  • Admission Control Policy Explained
  • Admission Control Settings
  • Admission Control - Slot Size
  • ESXi Host Failure Options
  • HA Cluster Network and Datastore Heartbeating
  • HA Network Heartbeat Explained
  • HA Datastore Heartbeats
  • Configure Datastore Heartbeat
  • HA VM Restart Priority
  • HA VM Restart Best Practice
  • Setting HA Cluster HA Restart Priority - Per VM Overrides
  • Adjust Individual VM Restart Priority
  • HA Cluster Overview
  • vSphere HA Cluster Summary
  • Impact of ESXi Host Network Isolation
  • ESXi Host Management NIC Failure
  • VM Powered Off when ESXi Host Running the VM is Network Isolated
  • Change VM ESXi Host Ownership - Power VM Back On
  • Maintenance Mode
  • Isolation Response - Epic VM Fail
  • Isolation Response - Best Practice
  • Combined HA and DRS Clusters
  • vSphere Clusters - Best Practice
  • What's New in vSphere 6 for HA Clusters
  • HA Disabled VM Handling
  • VM Fault Tolerance
  • High Availability Clusters Lab
  • High Availability Clusters - Review and Questions
VMware Fault Tolerance
  • VMware Fault Tolerance
  • VMware Fault Tolerance - Explained
  • Fault Tolerance Benefits
  • Fault Tolerance Fast Checkpointing
  • Two ESXi Host Fault Tolerance VM Protection
  • Three Plus ESXi Host Fault Tolerance VM Protection
  • Fault Tolerance - Use Cases
  • Fault Tolerance Lab - Part 1
  • What's New in vSphere 6 for Fault Tolerance
  • Fault Tolerance HA Cluster and ESXi Host Requirements
  • Fault Tolerance HA Cluster Compliance Checks
  • Fault Tolerance Virtual Machine Requirements
  • Fault Tolerance Protected Virtual Machine Restrictions
  • Fault Tolerance Networking - Best Practice
  • Fault Tolerance VMkernel Port Configuration
  • Enabling Fault Tolerance Protection on a Virtual Machine
  • Fault Tolerance Enabled - VM Compliance Checks
  • VM Turn On Fault Tolerance Wizard - Step 1