This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 7, which includes VMware ESXi 7 and VMware vCenter Server 7. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. This course is the foundation for most of the other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center

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Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Describe the software-defined data center (SDDC)
Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure
Install and configure VMware ESXi hosts
Deploy and configure VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Use VMware vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory and the vCenter Server configuration
Manage, monitor, back up, and protect vCenter Server Appliance
Create virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
Describe the storage technologies supported by vSphere
Configure virtual storage using iSCSI and NFS storage
Create and manage VMware vSphere VMFS datastores
Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library
Manage virtual machine resource use
Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion
Create and manage a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
Discuss solutions for managing the vSphere life cycle
Use VMware vSphere Update Manager to apply patches and perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines

1

  • 1 - COURSE INTRODUCTION

  • Introductions and course logistics

    Course objectives

2

  • 2 - INTRODUCTION TO VSPHERE AND THE SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATA CENTER

  • Explain basic virtualization concept

    Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure

    Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage

    Recognize the user interfaces for accessing the vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts

    Use VMware Host Client to access and manage ESXi host

3

  • 3 - VIRTUAL MACHINES

  • Create and remove a virtual machine

    Provision a virtual machine with virtual devices

    Identify the files that make up a virtual machine

    Explain the importance of VMware Tools

4

  • 4 - VCENTER SERVER

  • Describe the vCenter Server architecture

    Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server

    Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance

    Use the vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory

    Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server

    Use roles and permissions to enable users to access objects in the vCenter Server inventory

    Back up vCenter Server Appliance

    Monitor vCenter Server tasks, events, and appliance health

    Use vCenter Server High Availability to protect a vCenter Server Appliance

5

  • 5 - CONFIGURING AND MANAGING VIRTUAL NETWORKS

  • Create and manage standard switches

    Describe the virtual switch connection types

    Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping and load-balancing policies

    Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches

6

  • 6 - CONFIGURING AND MANAGING VIRTUAL STORAGE

  • Identify storage protocols and storage device types

    Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage

    Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores

    Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage

    Deploy virtual machines on a VMware vSAN datastore

7

  • 7 - VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGEMENT

  • Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines

    Modify and manage virtual machines

    Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library

    Dynamically increase the size of a virtual disk

    Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine

    Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations

    Create and manage virtual machine snapshots

    Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere Replication

8

  • 8 - RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING

  • Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment

    Describe what overcommitment of a resource means

    Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage

    Use various tools to monitor resource use

    Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events

9

  • 9 - VSPHERE CLUSTERS

  • Describe options for making a vSphere environment highly available

    Explain the vSphere HA architecture

    Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster

    Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance

    Configure a vSphere cluster using ESXi Cluster Quickstart

    Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster

    Create a vSphere DRS cluster

10

  • 10 - VSPHERE LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

  • Describe how VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager works

    Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to update ESXi hosts in a cluster

Audience

This course is ideal for Software Engineers, Senior Software Engineers, Java Developers, DevOps Engineers, Software Developers, .NET Developers, Systems Engineers, Full Stack Developers, Full Stack Java Developers, Data Scientists.

Language

English

Prerequisites

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

$4,250

Length: 5.0 days (40 hours)

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