VMware vSphere 7 Boot Camp

This powerful 5-day extended hours class is an intensive introduction to VMware vSphere including VMware ESXi 7 and vCenter 7. This course has been completely updated to reflect the most recent changes introduced in vSphere 7.

Assuming no prior virtualization experience, this class starts with the basics and rapidly progresses to advanced topics. With 45+% of class time is devoted to labs, students learn the skills they need to become effective vSphere administrators.

Students use dedicated labs that start with installation and configuration of stand-alone ESXi servers and progress to shared storage, networking and centralized management.

The class continues to advanced topics including resource management, high availability, replication, performance, disaster preparedness, rapid deployment and VM cold, hot and storage migration.

This class is unique in its approach; which is to identify and eliminate common IT pain points using vSphere. Students learn how to deliver business value; not just the technical or mechanical aspects of the software.

By the end of the class, attendees will have learned the skills, and best practices of virtualization. Attendees will be able to design, implement, deploy, configure, monitor, manage and troubleshoot vSphere 7.

Audience:

This class is suitable for anyone who want to learn how to extract the maximum benefit from their investment in Virtual Infrastructure, including:

• System architects or others who need to design virtual infrastructure

• Security specialists responsible for administering, managing, securing Virtual Infrastructure

• Operators responsible for day-to-day operation of Virtual Infrastructure

• Performance analysts who need to understand, provision, monitor Virtual Infrastructure

• Business Continuity specialists responsible for disaster recovery and high availability

• Storage administrators who work with Fibre / iSCSI SAN volumes and NAS datastores

• Managers who need an unbiased understanding of virtualization before committing their organization to a virtual infrastructure deployment

Topics:

• Virtualization Infrastructure Overview

• How to Install, Configure ESXi 7 (HoL1)

• Virtual and Physical Networking (HoL)

• Advanced Virtual Networking (HoL)

• NAS Shared Storage(HoL)

• Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines (HoL)

• Install and Configure vCenter Server Appliance (HoL)

• VM Rapid Deployment using Templates, Clones (HoL)

• Advanced Virtual Hardware – Hot Plug CPU/Memory (HoL)

• ESXi and vCenter Permission Model (HoL)

• Using Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage (HoL)

• Direct VM to SAN Volume access with Raw Device Maps (HoL)

• VMFS – The VMware Cluster File System (HoL)

• ESX and vCenter Alarms (HoL)

• Resource Management and Resource Pools (HoL)

• VM Hot VMotion, Cold Migration and Storage VMotion (HoL)

• Distributed Resource Scheduling Clusters (HoL)

• Failure Recovery with High Availability Clusters (HoL)

• Deliver Zero VM Unplanned Downtime with Fault Tolerance (HoL)

• Patch Management with VMware Lifecycle Manager (HoL)

• Introduction to Distributed Virtual Switches (HoL)

• Managing Scalability and Performance (HoL)

• Final Thoughts