VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage Training

Course Overview

This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 7, which includes VMware ESXiTM 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.

Course 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 functions in the infrastructure.
• Install and configure ESXi hosts.
• Deploy and configure VMware vCenter® Server ApplianceTM
• Use VMware vSphere® ClientTM to manage the vCenter Server inventory and the vCenter Server configuration.
• Manage, monitor, back up, and protect the 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 SchedulerTM.
• Discuss solutions for managing the vSphere life cycle.

Prerequisites

This course has the following prerequisites:

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

 Course Modules

Data Center

Explain the basic virtualization concepts.

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.

Describe the ESXi host architecture.

Navigate the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) to configure an ESXi host.

Recognize ESXi host user account best practices.

Install an ESXi host.

Use VMware Host ClientTM to configure ESXi host settings.

Virtual Machines

Create and provision a virtual machine.

Explain the importance of VMware tools

Install VMware Tools

Identify the files that make up a VM.

Recognize the components of a VM.

Recognize virtual devices supported by a VM

Describe the benefits and use cases for containers.

Identify the parts of a container system.

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 a 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 the vCenter Server Appliance

monitor vCenter Server tasks, events, and appliance health.

Use VMware vCenter Server® High Availability to protect a vCenter Server Appliance

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 to standard switches.

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

Recognize the components of a VMware vSAN™ configuration

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

Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine

Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations

Describe the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility feature

Create and manage virtual machine snapshots

Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Replication™

Describe the benefits of VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Data Protection

Resource Management and Monitoring

Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment

Describe what over commitment 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

vSphere Clusters

Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster

Create a vSphere DRS cluster

Monitor a vSphere cluster configuration

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

vSphere Lifecycle Management

Recognize the importance of vCenter Server Update Planner

Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works

Describe how to update ESXi hosts using baselines

Validate ESXi host compliance using a cluster image

Describe how to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware