VMware vSphere: Install Configure Manage v7.0

Introduction:

This 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

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

Course Outline:

1 – COURSE INTRODUCTION

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – VSPHERE LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

  • Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works
  • Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to update ESXi hosts in a cluster

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