VMware vSphere 6.0: Install, Configure, Manage

In this Pentagon Training’s VMware vSphere 6.0: Install, Configure, Manage course learn to install, configure and manage VMware vSphere 6, which includes VMware ESXi 6 and VMware vCenter Server 6.

During this course, get a solid understand of how to administer vSphere infrastructure for the organisation of any size and form foundation for various other VMware technologies in SDDC. Before achieving VCP6 level certification, delegates must first clear vSphere 6 Foundation exam.

Learn to virtualize applications and enhance availability. Simplify data centre using popular server virtualization platform. Deploy vCenter Server for managing different types of host storage, templates, snapshots and administer virtual machines. Gain the certification and enhance your VMware vSphere administration skills.

Introduction to Software Defined Data Center

• Introduction to components of the Software-Defined Data Center
• Find where vSphere fits into cloud architecture
• Deploy and use vSphere client
• ESXI overview

Developing virtual machines

• Introduction to virtual machines
• Introduction to virtual machine hardware and its machine files
• Establish virtual machines
• Work with virtual machines
• Introduction to vCenter Server in VMware

Introduction to vCenter Server Architecture

• Implement vCenter Server appliance
• Configure vCenter Server appliance
• Install and make use of vSphere Web Client
• Manage Vcenter Server inventory objects
• Manage vCenter Server Inventory Licenses
• Understand benefits of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility

Virtual Networks Configuration and Management

• Develop and manage standard switches
• Alter properties of Standard Switch
• Virtual Switch Load-Balancing Algorithms configuration
• Establish, configure and manage vSphere Distributed Switches
• Establish, configure and manage Network Connections, and Port Groups

Virtual Storage configuration and management

• Understand storage protocols and names of Storage devices
• Discuss ESXI with fibre channel storage, NFS and iSCSI
• Develop and manage VMware vSphere VMFS datastores
• VMware Virtual SAN overview

Management of Virtual Machines

• Learn to use templates to deploy virtual machines
• Deploy Virtual Machines using cloning
• Virtual machines Alteration and management
• Perform vSphere Storage vMotion and vSphere vMotion migration
• Develop virtual machine snapshots
• Virtual Machine Snapshots management
• Create a vApp
• Understand various types of content libraries
• Effectively Deploy and use content libraries

Management and monitoring of Resources

• Overview of Virtual CPU
• Memory Concepts
• Resource pools configuration and management
• Enhance performance of CPU
• Optimise usage of memory
• Use VCenter Server Performance graphs
• Develop and use Alarms to report various events or conditions
• vRealize Operations Manager for Data Center Monitoring and Management Overview

vSphere HA and vSphere Fault Tolerance

• Introduction to vSphere HA Architecture
• vSphere HA Cluster configuration and management
• Use Advanced parameters of vSphere HA
• Overview of fault tolerance
• Deploy vSphere Fault Tolerance on Virtual Machines
• Overview of vSphere Replication
• To Back Up and Restore Data use vSphere Data Protection to

Host Scalability

• vSphere DRS Cluster functions
• vSphere DRS Cluster configuration and management
• Work with Anti-Affinity Rules and Affinity
• Use vSphere DRS and vSphere HA Together

 vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance

• To manage ESXi patching use vSphere Update Manager
• Install vSphere Update Manager
• Install plug-ins of vSphere Update Manager
• Develop Patch Baselines
• Manage ESXi Configuration Compliance using host compliance
• Scan hosts
• Remediate Hosts

Instal Components of VMware

• Install ESXi
• Boot-from-SAN Requirements
• Overview of vCenter Server Deployment Options
• Requirements of vCenter Server Hardware and Software
• vCenter Server Database Requirements
• Install vCenter Server Appliance
• Install vCenter Server Instance