VMware HCX: Management and Operations Seminar

Einführung in den Kurs VMware HCX: Management and Operations

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Einführung in VMware HCX

• Describe workload mobility challenges that VMware HCX addresses
• Recognize use cases for VMware HCX
• Identify all major Cloud providers offering and supporting VMware HCX

HCX-Dienste und Bereitstellungsarten

• Describe the functions of VMware HCX components
• Recognize the services provided by VMware HCX
• Recognize when to use different deployment types for VMware HCX
• Be able to choose which components to install and configure for a different VMware HCX service

HCX-Bereitstellung

• Identify the resource, network, and ESXi/VMware vCenter server requirements for VMware HCX
• Understand the VMware vCenter user roles and access requirements
• Describe the installation workflow
• Install, activate, and configure VMware HCX manager
• Understand the compute and network profile requirements for VMware HCX and its services
• Create site pair, compute, and network profiles
• Describe and manage the HCX Service Mesh
• Create and configure a HCX Service Mesh

Netzwerk-Erweiterung

• Describe network extension use case and benefits
• Compare the HCX-Network extension service with other solutions
• Examine Network Extension capabilities and topology
• Create a Network Extension
• Describe network traffic packet flow
• Describe Mobility Optimized Networking
• Enable Mobility Optimized Networking
• Describe the TCP Flow Conditioning and Application path resiliency feature of VMware HCX
• Recognize the key benefits of TCP flow conditioning and Application path resiliency
• Describe WAN optimization

Mobilität der Arbeitslast

• Describe different migration types
• Recognize the limitation of each migration method and consideration when planning a migration
• Understand Bulk and Replication Assisted VMware HCX® vMotion® migration methods
• Migrate a VM using Bulk migration
• Describe cold and vMotion migration method
• Migrate a VM using HCX vMotion migration
• Examine non VMware vSphere® workload migration
• Migrate a VM using an OS assisted migration method

Betriebskontinuität und Disaster Recovery

• Examine disaster recovery concepts
• Describe disaster recovery networks
• Plan and create disaster recovery networks
• Describe VM protection operations
• Protect, recover, and test recovery and reverse replication of a VM
• Understand VMware HCX and SRM integration and value

HCX-Lebenszyklus-Management

• Backup and restore the VMware HCX manager
• Locate and access VMware HCX logs
• Troubleshoot VMware HCX
• Plan for VMware HCX manager and component updates

Kunden-Design-Szenarien

• Design a VMware HCX deployment
• Choose workload mobility methods for the migration
• Discuss customer requirements and proposed design
• Discuss components, services, and migration methods for the scenario