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VMware vSphere: Fast Track
Cloud Computing and Virtualisation

VMware vSphere: Fast Track

  • Length 5 days
  • Version 7.0
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Why study this course

This five-day, intensive course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere® 7 management skills. Building on the installation and configuration content from our best-selling course, you will also develop advanced skills needed to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you will install, configure and manage vSphere 7. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organisation of any size using vSphere 7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 7 and VMware vCenter Server® 7.

Product Alignment

  • ESXi 7

  • vCenter Server 7

Please note that the start and finish times of this intensive, extended-hours course will be confirmed after discussion with your instructor on day one of your training.

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What you’ll learn

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

  • 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 Serverconfiguration

  • 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 and manage resource pools

  • 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 andVMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™

  • Create virtual networks with VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™ and enable distributed switch features

  • Discuss solutions for managing the vSphere life cycle

  • Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines

  • Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance

  • Describe how vSphere storage APIs help storage systems integrate with vSphere

  • Configure and use virtual machine storage policies

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Who is the course for?

  • System Administrators

  • System Engineers

Course subjects

1. Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics

  • Course objectives

2. Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center

  • Explain basic virtualisation 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

  • Recognise the user interfaces for accessing the vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts

  • Describe the ESXi host architecture

  • Navigate the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) to configure an ESXi host

  • Recognise ESXi host user account best practices

  • Install an ESXi host

  • Use VMware Host Client™ to configure ESXi host settings

3. Virtual Machines

  • Create and provision a virtual machine

  • Explain the importance of VMware Tools™

  • Install VMware Tools

  • Identify the files that make up a VM

  • Recognise the components of a VM

  • Recognise virtual devices supported by a VM

  • Describe the benefits and use cases for containers

  • Identify the parts of a container system

4. 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, organisational 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

5. 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

6. 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

  • Recognise the components of a VMware vSAN™ configuration

7. 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

  • Use customisation specification files to customise a new virtual machine

  • Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations

  • Describe Enhanced vMotion Compatibility

  • Create and manage virtual machine snapshots

  • Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Replication™

  • Describe the benefits of vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection

8. Resource Management and Monitoring

  • Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualised environment

  • Describe what overcommitment of a resource means

  • Describe methods for optimising CPU and memory usage

  • Use various tools to monitor resource use

  • Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events

9. vSphere Clusters

  • Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster

  • Create a vSphere DRS cluster

  • Monitor a vSphere cluster configuration

  • 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

10. Network Scalability

  • Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches

  • Describe how VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control enhances performance

  • Explain distributed switch features such as port mirroring and NetFlow

11. vSphere Lifecycle Management

  • Recognise the importance of vCenter Server Update Planner

  • Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works

  • Describe how to update ESXi hosts using baselines

  • Validate ESXi host compliance using a cluster image

  • Describe how to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware

12. Host and Management Scalability

  • Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance

  • Create and manage resource pools in a cluster

  • Describe how scalable shares work

13. Storage Scalability

  • Explain why VMware vSphere® VMFS is a high-performance, scalable file system

  • Explain VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Array Integration, VMware vSphere® API for StorageAwareness™, and vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering

  • Configure and assign virtual machine storage policies

  • Create VMware vSAN™ storage policies

  • Recognise components of the vSphere Virtual Volumes architecture

  • Configure VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ and VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control

Prerequisites

This course requires the following prerequisites:

  • System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Terms & Conditions

The supply of this course by DDLS is governed by the booking terms and conditions. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before enrolling in this course, as enrolment in the course is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions.

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