VMSICM VMware vSphere Install, Configure & Manage

Overview

This five-day VMware vSphere foundation course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere, which includes VMware and VMware vCenter Server. This VMware 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. This course aligns to the following products:ESXi 7, vCenter Server 7

Please Note: This training is also suitable for students who want to be trained on vSphere v6.5 or v6.7.

Audience

System engineers and administrators involved in the administration of a VMware vSphere solution.

Learning Objectives

By actively participating in this course, you will learn about the following:

• 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

   

Prerequisites

Attendees should meet the following prerequisites:

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Course Contents

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics

• Course objectives

Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center

• Explain 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

• Use VMware Host Client to access and manage ESXi host

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

   

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

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

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

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

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

   

vSphere Cluster

• 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

   

vSphere Lifecycle

• Describe how VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager works

• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to update ESXi hosts in a cluster

   

Exam Information

There is no exam directly related to this course

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