VMware vSphere Training Course

This course teaches students about introduction and overview of vmware and vSphere 6.0 suite, it’s components, setting up and managing it’s virtual environment based on vmware and vSphere 6.0 version.

This course also covers important issues such as troubleshooting and performance issues of the virtual environment.

 The vmware and vSphere trading course teaches about types of virtualization, overview of vmware products in the virtualization space, market adoption of virtualization technologies and current trends in virtualization space and latest happenings.

This course lays down the foundation of software defined data center and cloud. Apart from all the above-mentioned points, students will also be taught environment and virtual networking setup.

By the end of this course the students will be able to perform activities such as resource management, setting up virtual machines and virtual storage and virtual networking setup.

Prerequisites: 

Students willing to take up this course must have fine knowledge of computing language. They must already know the uses and benefits of VMware and vSphere.

Target Audience:

The VMware and vSphere training course can be taken up by anyone willing to learn these courses. They must belong to the computer background and possess technical know-how.

VMware vSphere Course Modules:

• Setup and maintain an environment
• Environment setup
• Installation of VMware vCenter components and VMware ESXi.
• Setup datacenter and cluster objects, add ESXi hosts to cluster.
• Patch and upgrade ESXi hosts using VMware Update Manager.
• Configure VMware ESXi hosts using Host Profiles.
• Virtual networking setup
• Overview of virtual networking.
• Setup/configure standard virtual switch and distributed virtual switch.
• Migrate standard virtual switch to distributed virtual switch.
• Configure load-balancing and advanced options.
• Virtual storage setup
• Introduction to storage protocols and devices.
• Configure FC, iSCSI and NFS storage. Setup VMFS and NFS datastores.
• Discuss multi-pathing options.
• Introduction to Software Defined Storage (SDS).
• Setting up virtual machines
• Setup and configure a virtual machine.
• Take virtual machine snapshot and clone.
• Perform VM migration.
• Deploy VM from templates.
• Resource management
• Sizing cluster CPU and memory resources based on requirements.
• Configuring resource pools.
• Best practices for resource optimization.
• Configuring highly available and fault tolerant environment
• Overview of VMware High Availability (HA) and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).
• Configure VMware HA and VMware DRS.
• Configure VMware Storage DRS (SDRS).
• Configure VMware Fault Tolerance (FT).
• Securing the environment
• Secure ESXi hosts using various settings.
• Secure virtual machines using various settings.
• Apply security controls on virtual networking.
• Troubleshooting and performance tuning
• Overview of log files and log analysis.
• Use standard tools to troubleshoot the environment.
• Tune host compute resources for optimal performance.
• Apply best practices for optimal storage performance.
• Apply best practices for optimal network performance.