VMware vSphere 6.0: Install, Configure, Manage

VMware vSphere installs, configure, Manage is one of the bestselling courses. It includes hands-on training which focuses on installing, setting as well as managing VMware vSphere 6 that includes VMware ESXi 6 and VMware vCenter Server 6. 

This VMware course will help the participants to gain concrete knowledge and skills required to administer a VSphere infrastructure for an organisation.

This course delivers knowledge about virtual machine as well as its management. The deleagtes will learn about host scalability. After attending this course, the candidates will learn about installation of VMware components.

Course Content:

• Software Defined Data Center
•  Introduce software defined data centre components
•  Describe where VSphere fits into cloud architecture
•  Install and Use VSphere client
•  ESXI Overview
• Create virtual machines
•  Introduce virtual machines, hardware and files
•  Set up and work with virtual machines V centre Server
•  Present V centre Server architecture
•  Deploy as well as configure Vcenter Server appliance
•  Install and use vSphere Web Client
•  Explain enhanced VMotion compatibility benefits
• Manage and Configure Virtual Networks
•  Create, Describe and manage standard switches
•  Set virtual switch load balancing algorithms
•  Create, manage and configure VSphere distributed switches, port groups and network connections.
• Configure and Manage Virtual storage
•  Introduce storage protocols and device names
•  Describe ESXI and ISCSI, NFS and Fibre Channel storage
•  Introduce VMware Virtual SAN™
• Virtual Machine Management
•  Use cloning and templates for virtual machines deployment
•  Manage and Modify virtual machines
•  Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
•  Create a vApp
•  Introduce different types of content libraries, ways to deploy and use them
• Resource Management and Monitoring
•  Introduce CPU and Memory concepts
•  Manage and configure resource pools
•  Describe optimising CPU methods and memory usage
•  To monitor resource usage use Vcenter Server performance graphs and alarms
•  Create and use alarms for reporting certain conditions or events
•  Introduce VRealize Operations Manager for data centre monitoring and management
• VSphere HA and vSphere Fault Tolerance
•  VSphere HA architecture introduction
•  Manage and configure a vSphere HA cluster
•  VSphere Fault Tolerance introduction and Enable it on virtual machines
•  VSphere Replication Introduction
•  To backup and restore data use vSphere Data Protection
• Host Scalability
•  Explain vSphere DRS cluster functions
•  Work with affinity and anti -relationship rules
•  Use VSphere HA and vSphere DRS together
• vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance
•  To manage ESXi patching use vSphere Update Manager
•  Create patch baselines
•  To manage ESXi configuration compliance use host profiles
• Scan and remediate hosts
• Installing VMware Components
•  ESXi installation introduction
•  Describe requirements of boot-from- SAN
•  Introduce vCenter Server deployment options
•  Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
•  Discuss installation of vCenter Server Appliance and a vCenter Server instance

Prerequisites:

• All VMware course material is available in the form of courseware.
• Participants should possess system administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating system.
• Participants must have a prior understanding of the concepts presented in VMware data centre virtualization fundamentals course for VCA DCV certification.

Target Audience:

• This course is primarily designed for:
• System administrators
• System engineers

Delegates Will Learn How To:

• After the course completion, the delegates will be able to:
• Describe software defined data centre and Vcenter server architecture.
• Deploy ESXI host and create virtual machines.
• Deploy VCenter Server instance or VMware Vcenter Server Appliance.
• Use Vcenter Server to manage an ESXI host.
• Configure and manage VSphere infrastructure with VMware vSphere Client and VMware vSphere Web Client.
• Configure virtual networks with Vsphere standard switches.
• Use Vcenter Server to manage various types of host storage.
• Create VApp and also describe the use of the content library.
• Migrate virtual machines with the help of VMware vSphere vMotion.
• To identify and solve issues make use of VMware vRealize Operations Manager.
• To replicate virtual machines and perform data recovery use VMware vSphere Replication.
• To improve host scalability use VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler.
• To improve network scalability use Use, VMware vSphere Distributed Switches.
• Perform basic troubleshooting of ESXI hosts, virtual machines and Vcenter Server operations.