VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [v7]
This five-day course provides intensive hands-on training focused on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 7 and VMware vCenter Server® 7. The course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for a organization of any size.
It is a course that forms the foundation for most other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.
COD: VSICM7
Categorie: VMware
This five-day course provides intensive hands-on training focused on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 7 and VMware vCenter Server® 7. The course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for a organization of any size.
It is a course that forms the foundation for most other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.
COD: VSICM7
Categorie: VMware
Outgoing knowledge/skills
By the end of the course, you should be able to achieve the following objectives:
- Describe the software-defined data center (SDDC).
- Explain vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure.
- Describe the benefits and features of VMware Skyline.
- Install and configure ESXi hosts
- Deploy and configure VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™.
- Use VMware vSphere® Client™ to manage vCenter Server inventory and vCenter Server configuration.
- Manage, monitor, backup and secure the vCenter Server appliance.
- Create virtual networks with standard vSphere 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 library templates.
- Manage resource usage of virtual machines
- Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®.
- Create and manage a vSphere cluster enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™.
- Discuss vSphere lifecycle management solutions
- Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to perform upgrades of ESXi hosts and virtual machines.
Participation in this course meets the training requirements for the following certification:
- VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)
Educational program
1 Introduction to the course
- Introduction and logistics of the course
- Objectives of the course
2 Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center
- Explain the basic concepts of virtualization
- Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and cloud infrastructure.
- Explain how vSphere interacts with CPU, memory, networking, and storage.
- Recognize the user interfaces to access the vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts.
- Describe the architecture of ESXi hosts
- Navigate the direct console user interface (DCUI) to configure an ESXi host
- Recognize best practices for the ESXi host user account
- Install an ESXi host
- Use VMware Host Client™ to configure ESXi host settings.
- Describe how to proactively manage your vSphere environment using VMware Skyline.
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 virtual machine
- Recognize the components of a virtual machine
- Recognize the virtual devices supported by a virtual machine
- Describe the benefits and use cases of 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 the vCenter Server appliance
- Use vSphere Client to manage vCenter Server inventory.
- Add data centers, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server.
- Use roles and permissions to allow users to access vCenter Server inventory objects.
- Back up vCenter Server Appliance
- Monitor vCenter Server activities, events, and health
- Use VMware vCenter Server® High Availability to protect a vCenter Server appliance.
5 Configuring and managing virtual networks
- Create and manage standard switches
- Describe the connection types of vswitches
- Configure vswitch security, traffic-shaping, and load-balancing policies.
- Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches
- 6 Configuring and managing virtual storage
- Identify storage protocols and types of storage devices
- Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel storage.
- Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores.
- Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel storage.
- Recognize the components of a VMware vSAN™ configuration.
7 Management of virtual machines
- Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines.
- Edit and manage virtual machines
- Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library.
- Use the customization spec files to customize a new virtual machine.
- Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
- Describe the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility feature.
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
- Review the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Replication™.
- Describe the benefits of VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Data Protection
8 Management and monitoring of resources
- Discuss the concepts of CPU and memory in a virtualized environment.
- Describe what overcommitment of a resource means
- Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage.
- Use various tools to monitor resource usage
- Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events.
9 Cluster vSphere
- Describe the features of a vSphere DRS cluster
- Creare un cluster vSphere DRS
- Monitor the configuration of a vSphere cluster
- Describe options for making a vSphere environment highly available
- Explain the vSphere HA architecture
- Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
- Review the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
- Describe the function of the vSphere® Cluster Service
10 vSphere lifecycle management
- Recognize the importance of the vCenter Server Update Planner
- Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works.
- Describe how to upgrade ESXi hosts using baselines
- Validate compliance of ESXi hosts using a cluster image
- Describe how to update VMware tools and virtual machine hardware.
- Describe the integration between VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ and VMware vSAN™.
Duration – 5 days
Delivery – in Classroom, On Site, Remote
PC and SW requirements:
- Internet connection
- Web browser, Google Chrome
- Zoom
Language
Instructor: English
Labs: English
Slides: English
