Course Description
VMware vSphere 6.5 provides many tools to manage the resources used throughout a host or cluster. This course covers how to use high-level resource management techniques.
Learning Objectives
Advanced Resource Management
- start the course
- describe how cluster resources are allocated within VMware vSphere 6.5
- recognize best practices for allocating VM CPU resources within VMware vSphere 6.5
- recognize best practices for allocating memory resources within VMware vSphere 6.5
- describe how memory overcommitment functions within VMware vSphere 6.5
- describe how Transparent Page Sharing functions within VMware vSphere 6.5 and how to enable it
- describe how paging assists with memory management within VMware vSphere 6.5
- describe how resource pools assist with resource allocation within VMware vSphere 6.5
- use vSphere to allocate resources with pools for optimal cluster design
- describe the benefits of expansion and nesting resource pools within VMware vSphere 6.5
- recall the importance of optimal vApp resource allocation
Practice: Managing Resources
- configure resource pools using the vSphere Web Client