VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]

Metodologia didattica

Il corso prevede laboratori didattici in cui ciascuno studente potrà lavorare ai fini di portare a termine esercizi formativi che forniranno esperienza pratica nell’utilizzo dello strumento, per ciascuno degli argomenti affrontati durante il corso.

Chi dovrebbe partecipare

• Amministratori di sistema
• Ingegneri di sistema

Conoscenze/Competenze in uscita

Al termine del corso, dovreste essere in grado di raggiungere i seguenti obiettivi:

• Installare e configurare gli host ESXi
• Distribuire e configurare vCenter
• Utilizzare il client vSphere per creare l’inventario di vCenter e assegnare i ruoli agli utenti di vCenter.
• Creare reti virtuali utilizzando gli switch standard e gli switch distribuiti di vSphere.ù
• Creare e configurare i datastore utilizzando le tecnologie di storage supportate da vSphere.
• Utilizzare il vSphere® Client™ per creare macchine virtuali, modelli, cloni e snapshot.
• Creare librerie di contenuti per gestire i modelli e distribuire le macchine virtuali.
• Gestire l’allocazione delle risorse delle macchine virtuali
• Migrare le macchine virtuali con VMware vSphere® vMotion® e VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®.
• Creare e configurare un cluster vSphere abilitato con VMware vSphere® High Availability e VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™.
• Gestire il ciclo di vita di vSphere per mantenere aggiornati vCenter, gli host ESXi e le macchine virtuali.

Programma didattico

1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 vSphere and Virtualization Overview
• Explain basic virtualization concepts
• Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
• Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
• Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs

3 Installing and Configuring ESXi
• Install an ESXi host
• Recognize ESXi user account best practices
• Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client

4 Deploying and Configuring vCenter
• Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter
• Deploy vCenter Server Appliance
• Configure vCenter settings
• Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys
• Create and organize vCenter inventory objects
• Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions
• View vCenter logs and events

5 Configuring vSphere Networking
• Configure and view standard switch configurations
• Configure and view distributed switch configurations
• Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches
• Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches

6 Configuring vSphere Storage
• Recognize vSphere storage technologies
• Identify types of vSphere datastores
• Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing
• Describe iSCSI components and addressing
• Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi
• Create and manage VMFS datastores
• Configure and manage NFS datastores

7 Deploying Virtual Machines
• Create and provision VMs
• Explain the importance of VMware Tools
• Identify the files that make up a VM
• Recognize the components of a VM
• Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options
• Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources
• Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them
• Clone VMs
• Create customization specifications for guest operating systems
• Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries
• Deploy VMs from content libraries
• Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries

8 Managing Virtual Machines
• Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances
• Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion
• Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations
• Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion
• Take a snapshot of a VM
• Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots
• Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment
• Describe how VMs compete for resources
• Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits

9 Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters
• Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
• View information about a vSphere cluster
• Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster
• Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings
• Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster
• Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures
• Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster
• Recognize vSphere HA design considerations
• Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings
• Configure a vSphere HA cluster
• Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance

10 Managing the vSphere Lifecycle
• Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
• Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner
• Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports
• Recognize features of VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™
• Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images
• Describe how to update hosts using baselines
• Describe ESXi images
• Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and update ESXi hosts
• Update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations
• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware

Durata – 5 giorni

Erogazione – in Aula, On Site, Remoto

Requisiti PC e SW:

• Connessione Internet
• Web browser, Google Chrome
• Zoom

Language
Trainer: Italiano
Labs: Inglese
Slides: Inglese