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1. Exploring the Upgrade from
VMware vSphere: Install,
Configure, Manage 6.5 to 6.7

2. Exploring the Upgrade
from VMware vSphere:
Install, Configure,
Manage 6.5 to 6.7
Michael Rausch

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What’s New in vSphere 6.7?
vSphere 6.7 focuses
on simplifying management
at scale, securing both
infrastructure and
workloads, being the
universal platform for
applications, and providing
a seamless hybrid cloud
experience.

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What else?
• 2X faster performance in vCenter
operations per second
• 3X reduction in memory usage
• 3X faster DRS-related operations
(e.g. power-on virtual machine)

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Let’s Talk About VMWare vSphere 6.7
vSphere 6.7 delivers key capabilities to enable IT organizations
address the following notable trends that are putting new demands on
their IT infrastructure:
• Explosive growth in quantity and variety of applications, from
business critical apps to new intelligent workloads.
• Rapid growth of hybrid cloud environments and use cases.
• On-premises data centers growing and expanding globally, including
at the Edge.
• Security of infrastructure and applications attaining paramount
importance.

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Simple and Efficient Management
vSphere 6.7 builds on the
technological innovation
delivered by vSphere 6.5,
and elevates the customer
experience to an entirely
new level. It provides
exceptional management
simplicity, operational
efficiency, and faster time
to market, all at scale.

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Built In Security
• vSphere 6.7 builds on the security capabilities in vSphere 6.5 and
leverages its unique position as the hypervisor to offer
comprehensive security that starts at the core, via an operationally
simple policy-driven model.
• vSphere 6.7 adds support for Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
2.0 hardware devices and also introduces Virtual TPM 2.0,
significantly enhancing protection and assuring integrity for both the
hypervisor and the guest operating system.
• Data encryption was introduced with vSphere 6.5 and very well
received. With vSphere 6.7, VM Encryption is further enhanced and
more operationally simple to manage.

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Universal Application Platform
vSphere 6.7 is a universal
application platform that supports
new workloads (including 3D
Graphics, Big Data, HPC, Machine
Learning, In-Memory, and Cloud-
Native) as well as existing mission
critical applications. It also
supports and leverages some of
the latest hardware innovations in
the industry, delivering exceptional
performance for a variety of
workloads.

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Seamless Hybrid Cloud Experience
vSphere 6.7 introduces vCenter
Server Hybrid Linked Mode,
which makes it easy and simple
for customers to have unified
visibility and manageability across
an on-premises vSphere
environment running on one
version and VMware Cloud on
AWS, running on a different
version of vSphere.

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Training – What Do You Need?
• Authorized Partner
• Accepts Learning Credits
• Practice Exams & Vouchers
• Prep Kit
• Advanced Titles
• On-Demand Options
• Virtual Classroom Live
• Classroom
• Group Training
• Guaranteed to Run
• Global Delivery

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vSphere ICM 6.5 to vSphere ICM 6.7
Vmware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [6.7] is the foundation for most of the
other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.

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Courses
VMware vSphere: Install,
Configure, Manage [v6.7]
VMware vSphere:
Optimize and Scale [v6.7]