Information Technology

VMware HCX: Management and Operations

Instructor-Led 9 Agenda

Description

This four-day course gives you knowledge and practical exercises sufficient to manage VMware HCX® and to migrate virtual machines using VMware HCX. The course focuses on configuration and management of VMware HCX. The course equips system administrators with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in migrating virtual machines.

Course Overview

Course Objective

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Describe core VMware HCX use cases and common triggers for mobility
Describe the core components and features of VMware HCX
Describe a real-life example of a VMware HCX project
Identify all major Cloud Providers offering and supporting VMware HCX
Describe the features of VMware HCX services
Explain the different deployment types for VMware HCX and choose the correct components to deploy for a particular use case
Understand the resource, network, and VMware ESXi™ and VMware vCenter® requirements for VMware HCX
Install and configure VMware HCX
Understand, deploy, and manage the HCX Service Mesh
Understand Network Extension and Traffic Engineering
Create Network Extension and enable Mobility Optimized Networking
Understand WAN Optimization
Understand the different migration types and be able to choose the best one for different applications and workloads
Incorporate VMware HCX into a disaster recovery strategy
Design a VMware HCX deployment for different use cases
Manage the lifecycle of VMware HCX

Who Should Attend

System administrators
System engineers
Migration engineers
Migration architects

Course Introduction Lesson Id 1

Course Introduction

Introduction to VMware HCX Lesson Id 2

Introduction to VMware HCX

HCX Services and Deployment Types Lesson Id 3

HCX Services and Deployment Types

HCX Deployment Lesson Id 4

HCX Deployment

Network Extension Lesson Id 5

Network Extension

Workload Mobility Lesson Id 6

Workload Mobility

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Lesson Id 7

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

HCX Lifecycle Management Lesson Id 8

HCX Lifecycle Management

Customer Design Scenarios Lesson Id 9

Customer Design Scenarios

Lesson Id	Title	Description
1	Course Introduction	Introductions and course logistics<br />Course objectives
2	Introduction to VMware HCX	Describe workload mobility challenges that VMware HCX addresses<br />Recognize use cases for VMware HCX<br />Identify all major Cloud providers offering and supporting VMware HCX
3	HCX Services and Deployment Types	Describe the functions of VMware HCX components<br />Recognize the services provided by VMware HCX<br />Recognize when to use different deployment types for VMware HCX<br />Be able to choose which components to install and configure for a different VMware HCX service<br />
4	HCX Deployment	Identify the resource, network, and ESXi/VMware vCenter server requirements for VMware HCX<br />Understand the VMware vCenter user roles and access requirements<br />Describe the installation workflow<br />Install, activate, and configure VMware HCX manager<br />Understand the compute and network profile requirements for VMware HCX and its services<br />Create site pair, compute, and network profiles<br />Describe and manage the HCX Service Mesh<br />Create and configure a HCX Service Mesh<br />
5	Network Extension	Describe network extension use case and benefits<br />Compare the HCX-Network extension service with other solutions<br />Examine Network Extension capabilities and topology<br />Create a Network Extension<br />Describe network traffic packet flow<br />Describe Mobility Optimized Networking<br />Enable Mobility Optimized Networking<br />Describe the TCP Flow Conditioning and Application path resiliency feature of VMware HCX<br />Recognize the key benefits of TCP flow conditioning and Application path resiliency<br />Describe WAN optimization<br />
6	Workload Mobility	Describe different migration types<br />Recognize the limitation of each migration method and consideration when planning a migration<br />Understand Bulk and Replication Assisted VMware HCX® vMotion® migration methods<br />Migrate a VM using Bulk migration<br />Describe cold and vMotion migration method<br />Migrate a VM using HCX vMotion migration<br />Examine non VMware vSphere® workload migration<br />Migrate a VM using an OS assisted migration method<br />
7	Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery	Examine disaster recovery concepts<br />Describe disaster recovery networks<br />Plan and create disaster recovery networks<br />Describe VM protection operations<br />Protect, recover, and test recovery and reverse replication of a VM<br />Understand VMware HCX and SRM integration and value<br />
8	HCX Lifecycle Management	Backup and restore the VMware HCX manager<br />Locate and access VMware HCX logs<br />Troubleshoot VMware HCX<br />Plan for VMware HCX manager and component updates
9	Customer Design Scenarios	Design a VMware HCX deployment<br />Choose workload mobility methods for the migration<br />Discuss customer requirements and proposed design<br />Discuss components, services, and migration methods for the scenario<br />