VMware vSphere Performance Monitoring: vSphere Performance Tools

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Course Summary

Part 3 of 3 of the VMware vSphere Performance Monitoring series looks in-depth at various tools to help you monitor and optimize vSphere performance.

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Course Description

Part 3 of 3 of the VMware vSphere Performance Monitoring series looks in-depth at various tools to help you monitor and optimize vSphere performance. If you are interested in quickly solving performance issues and optimizing your virtual environment, as well as minimizing downtime and reducing waste of server resources, then this is the course for you. You’ll learn how vSphere uses resources like CPU, memory, disk, network, and how to make your vSphere infrastructure perform efficiently. You’ll also learn to properly size virtual machines, use DRS, and troubleshoot vSphere performance. This course is recommended for those who have existing VMware vSphere knowledge who want the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform advanced performance monitoring of their vSphere deployments.

Course Description

Part 3 of 3 of the VMware vSphere Performance Monitoring series looks in-depth at various tools to help you monitor and optimize vSphere performance. If you are interested in quickly solving performance issues and optimizing your virtual environment, as well as minimizing downtime and reducing waste of server resources, then this is the course for you. You’ll learn how vSphere uses resources like CPU, memory, disk, network, and how to make your vSphere infrastructure perform efficiently. You’ll also learn to properly size virtual machines, use DRS, and troubleshoot vSphere performance. This course is recommended for those who have existing VMware vSphere knowledge who want the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform advanced performance monitoring of their vSphere deployments.

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Course Syllabus

Cleaning Up a Windows VM After P2V Conversion
- 13m 45s

—Introduction 0m 33s
—Why Cleaning Up After P2V is Important 1m 26s
—Steps You Should Take to Clean Up After P2V 3m 59s
—Resources to Assist in P2V Clean Up 0m 32s
—Using the VM Advanced ISO Toolset 6m 18s
—What We Covered 0m 57s

Utilizing VM Guest Hot Add
- 16m 4s

—Introduction 0m 34s
—Adding, Modifying, and Removing Virtual Hardware 1m 19s
—Requirements to Use vSphere Hot Add / Hot Plug 3m 30s
—Using Hot Add to Add RAM to a VM 6m 21s
—Using Hot Plug to Add CPU to a VM 2m 44s
—What We Covered 1m 36s

Using vSphere Alarms for Performance Monitoring
- 29m 13s

—Alarms Overview 3m 22s
—Alarms vs. Events 2m 32s
—Configuring vSphere Performance Alarms 2m 1s
—Modifying a Default Alarm 7m 4s
—Configuring vCenter Server Mail Sender Settings 3m 37s
—Creating a New Alarm 3m 15s
—Testing Alarms 6m 30s
—What We Covered 0m 52s

Advanced Performance Graphing with the vSphere Client
- 33m 39s

—Introduction 1m 0s
—vSphere Performance Graphing Overview 17m 10s
—Controlling the Amount and Detail of Stored Performance Data 4m 41s
—Customizing Advanced Performance Graphs 3m 26s
—Saving and Exporting Performance Graphs 6m 11s
—What We Covered 1m 11s

Advanced Performance Analysis with esxtop and resxtop
- 32m 23s

—Introduction 0m 36s
—Overview of esxtop 0m 42s
—Differences Between esxtop and resxtop 4m 39s
—Controlling esxtop Columns and Fields 6m 44s
—Using esxtop Configuration Files 4m 13s
—Running esxtop in Batch Mode 6m 43s
—Common esxtop Scenarios 5m 6s
—esxtop Resources 2m 40s
—What We Covered 1m 0s

Storage Performance Analysis with vscsiStats
- 22m 47s

—Overview of vscsiStats 3m 13s
—Using vscsiStats, Step by Step 9m 46s
—Scenarios for vscsiStats 1m 26s
—Graphing vscsiStats with Excel 5m 39s
—To Learn More 1m 18s
—What We Covered 1m 25s

VMware AppSpeed Quickstart
- 22m 29s

—AppSpeed Overview 4m 44s
—Scenarios Where AppSpeed Can Help 1m 3s
—AppSpeed Requirements and Installation 11m 11s
—Using AppSpeed 4m 0s
—What We Covered 1m 31s

VMware Capacity IQ Quickstart
- 17m 24s

—Capacity IQ Overview 3m 2s
—Capacity IQ Requirements and Installation 0m 35s
—Using Capacity IQ 12m 34s
—What We Covered 1m 13s

Distributed Resource Scheduler Overview
- 20m 24s

—Introduction 0m 40s
—Overview of Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) 2m 59s
—Why Isn't My VM Load Perfectly Balanced? 1m 52s
—Configuring DRS 2m 13s
—Creating DRS Cluster 8m 54s
—DRS Troubleshooting Tips 1m 59s
—Monitoring DRS 0m 22s
—My Favorite HA/DRS Book 0m 29s
—What We Covered 0m 56s

DRS Automation, Affinity Rules, and EVC
- 21m 10s

—Understanding DRS Automation 6m 45s
—DRS Groups and Affinity Rules 1m 18s
—New DRS Features in vSphere 4.1 6m 0s
—Understanding Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) 5m 33s
—What We Covered 1m 34s

Configuring and Using Distributed Power Management
- 16m 44s

—Distributed Power Management (DPM) Overview 5m 22s
—Enabling and Configuring DPM 7m 36s
—Monitoring Power Utilization 2m 13s
—What We Covered 1m 33s

vSphere Capacity Planning
- 26m 27s

—Introduction 0m 33s
—Why Perform Capacity Planning? 2m 4s
—Steps to Perform Successful Capacity Planning 2m 29s
—Tools Used in Capacity Planning 2m 3s
—Using VMware Guided Consolidation 3m 36s
—Configuring VMware Guided Consolidation 4m 28s
—Predicting Host and VM Capacity with Performance Charts 3m 42s
—Using vSphere Performance Charts for Capacity Planning 5m 48s
—What We Covered 1m 44s

Using VMware vCenter Operations
- 30m 48s

—Introduction 0m 33s
—vCenter Operations Overview 2m 46s
—Requirements and Installation 1m 24s
—Terms: Workload, Health, and Capacity 2m 46s
—Downloading and Installing vCenter Operations 3m 53s
—Configuring vCenter Operations 6m 57s
—Using vCenter Operations 11m 21s
—What We Covered 1m 8s

Using VKernel vOperations Suite
- 24m 2s

—What is VKernel vOps? 2m 23s
—System Requirements 0m 56s
—Installation 7m 59s
—Using vOps for Capacity Planning 11m 23s
—What We Covered 1m 21s

VMware's Free ESXplot
- 14m 24s

—What is ESXplot? 1m 1s
—Downloading and Installing ESXplot 6m 10s
—Exporting Data from ESXi Server Using esxtop 3m 41s
—Analyzing vSphere Stats From esxtop with ESXplot 2m 38s
—What We Covered 0m 54s

VMware's Free IOBlazer
- 14m 38s

—Introduction 0m 54s
—What is IOBlazer? 0m 45s
—Downloading and Installing IOBlazer 2m 50s
—Analyzing vSphere Storage Stats From vscsiStats with IOBlazer 8m 51s
—What We Covered 1m 18s

Veeam Monitor Free Edition
- 14m 1s

—How Can Veeam Monitor Free Help You? 1m 14s
—Veeam Monitor Free vs. Full 0m 58s
—Downloading and Installing Veeam Monitor Free Edition 5m 20s
—5 Critical Performance Stats, Analyzed with Veeam Monitor 5m 46s
—What We Covered 0m 43s

Xangati for ESX Free Edition
- 21m 29s

—What Makes Xangati Unique? 2m 40s
—Downloading and Installing Xangati for ESX 8m 14s
—Confirguring Xangati 4m 20s
—Virtual Network Analysis with Xangati 5m 21s
—What We Covered 0m 54s

Using vKernel's Free Performance Tools
- 22m 17s

—Four Free Performance Tools From vKernel 2m 7s
—Exploring VMs Utilization with ApplicationView 2m 46s
—vSphere Performance Overview with CapacityView 2m 25s
—Analyze Storage Latency with StorageView 1m 22s
—Predicting vSphere Capacity with Capacity Modeler 12m 38s
—What We Coveered 0m 59s

XtraVirt's Free vAlarm
- 6m 46s

—Introduction 0m 36s
—What is vAlarm? 0m 56s
—Downloading and Installing vAlarm 1m 31s
—vSphere Alarms in Windows with vAlarm 3m 5s
—What We Covered 0m 38s

VMware Guest Console (Free)
- 13m 44s

—Overview of Free VMware Guest Console (VGC) 1m 44s
—Downloading and Installing VGC 5m 28s
—Analyzing VM Inventory, Processes, Snapshots, and More 5m 57s
—What We Covered 0m 35s

Next Steps
- 5m 1s

—Introduction 0m 33s
—What We Learned 0m 58s
—Next Steps for Learning 1m 42s
—Next Steps for VCP or VCAP Certification 0m 50s
—Feedback 0m 58s

Course Fee:

USD 29

Course Type:	Self-Study
Course Status:	Active
Workload:	1 - 4 hours / week

This course is listed under Cloud Computing , Data Centre Management , Development & Implementations , Enterprise Applications , Data & Information Management , Networks & IT Infrastructure , Operating Systems , IT Security & Architecture , Quality Assurance & Testing and Server & Storage Management Community

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Course Fee:

USD 29

Course Type:	Self-Study
Course Status:	Active
Workload:	1 - 4 hours / week

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VMware vSphere Performance Monitoring: vSphere Performance Tools

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VMware

Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Capacity planning

VMware vSphere

VMware DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler)

System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)

Data Protection Management (DPM)

Virtual Memory System (VMS)

Troubleshooting

Testing

VCP (VMware Certified Professional)

VCAP (VMware Certified Advanced Professional)

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