VMware HCX: Management and Operations

Course Introduction
– Introductions and course logistics
– Course objectivesIntroduction to 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 HCXHCX Services and Deployment Types
– 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 serviceHCX Deployment
– 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 MeshNetwork Extension
– 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 optimizationWorkload Mobility
– 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 methodBusiness Continuity and 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 valueHCX Lifecycle Management
– Backup and restore the VMware HCX manager
– Locate and access VMware HCX logs
– Troubleshoot VMware HCX
– Plan for VMware HCX manager and component updatesCustomer Design Scenarios
– 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