VMware vSphere 6.5 Essential Training Part 2

Learn how to administer, troubleshoot, and monitor vSphere 6.5, the VMware data center virtualization platform.

Released: 6/20/2018

Learn the essentials of vSphere 6.5, the data center virtualization platform from VMware. Part 2 of this training series covers administration, troubleshooting, and monitoring. Learn how to migrate virtual machines with vMotion, configure High Availability, and cluster ESXi hosts and related virtual machines with VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). Learn about controlling resource allocation with DRS rules and resource pools, configuring fault tolerance, and fixing common issues related to installation, storage, and virtual machines. Instructor Rick Crisci also shows how to export logs, set up alarms, and perform simple database maintenance.

Topics include:

Configuring vMotion and Storage vMotion

vSphere High Availability (HA)

Setting DRS rules and automation levels

Fault tolerance

DRS data protection

Troubleshooting vSphere

Monitoring vSphere

Introduction

Introduction 40s

1. Administer Availability

vMotion 6m 45s

Demo: Configuring for vMotion 6m 51s

Demo: vMotion 6m 29s

Demo: Scheduled vMotion 2m 9s

Storage vMotion 7m 39s

Demo: Storage vMotion 4m 13s

High Availability (HA) introduction 8m 14s

Admission control 6m 19s

vSphere 6.5: What's new in HA 10m 50s

Demo: HA 9m

Demo: Proactive HA 4m 53s

2. Administer Resource Management Features

Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) 7m 50s

DRS affinity rules 3m 32s

DRS and vCenter 1m 14s

DRS and maintenance mode 1m 43s

DRS and automation levels 2m 37s

DRS and resource fragmentation 1m 53s

vSphere 6.5: What's new in DRS 8m 6s

Demo: DRS 8m 20s

Fault tolerance 4m 4s

Demo: Fault tolerance 6m 6s

Fault tolerance 9m

Resource pools 4m 45s

3. Troubleshooting vSphere 6.x

vSphere data protection 3m 37s

Demo: Verify VM network config 7m 43s

Demo: Verify host networking 3m 7s

ESXi management agents 5m 35s

Demo: Troubleshoot common installation issues 6m 24s

Demo: Troubleshoot common storage issues 11m 32s

4. Monitoring vSphere 6.x

Demo: Troubleshoot common VM issues 3m 47s

Gathering and uploading logs 10m 6s

Demo: Alarms 3m 23s