VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7] - On Demand
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(30 Days)
Overview:
This course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 6.7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 6.7 and VMware vCenter Server® 6.7. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size.
This course is the foundation for most of the other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center. This course is also available in an Instructor-Led Training (ILT) format. For more information, select this link: VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7]. **Special Offer** Purchase this On Demand course and receive a free Foundation Exam voucher to use toward certification. Product Alignment • ESXi 6.7 • vCenter Server 6.7 |
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| Objectives: | By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives: • Describe the software-defined data center • Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure • Add ESXi hosts to a VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ instance • Manage vCenter Server Appliance • Use a local content library as an ISO store, and deploy a virtual machine • Describe vCenter Server architecture • Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host • Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware Host Client™ and VMware vSphere® Client™ • Describe virtual networks with vSphere standard switches • Configure standard switch policies • Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage: VMware vSphere® VMFS, NFS, iSCSI, and RDM • Examine the features and functions of Fibre Channel and VMware vSAN™ • Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots • Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® • Migrate virtual machine storage with VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® • Monitor resource usage, and manage resource pools • Discuss the VMware vSphere® High Availability (vSphere HA) cluster architecture • Configure vSphere HA • Manage vSphere HA and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance • Use VMware vSphere® Replication™ and VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ to replicate virtual machines and perform data recovery • Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters to improve host scalability • Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches and perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations • Identify troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency |
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| Intended Audience: | • System administrators • System engineers |
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| Prerequisites: | This course has the following prerequisites: • System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems |
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| Outline: | 1 Course Introduction • Introductions and course logistics • Course objectives • Describe the content of the course • Gain a complete picture of the VMware certification system • Familiarize yourself with the benefits of the VMware Education Learning Zone • Identify additional resources 2 Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center • Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure • Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage • Use vSphere Client to access and manage your vCenter Server system and ESXi host • Compare virtual machine hardware version 14 to other versions • Identify the virtual network adapters, and describe the enhanced VMXNET3 • Compare the types of virtual disk provisioning • Install and configure ESXi host settings • Identify the advantages of ESXi Quick Boot 3 Creating Virtual Machines • Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine • Explain the importance of VMware Tools™ • Describe how to import a virtual appliance OVF template 4 vCenter Server • Describe the vCenter Server architecture • Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server • Access and configure vCenter Server Appliance • Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory • Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server • Create custom inventory tags • Describe the rules for applying permissions • Create a custom role in vCenter Server • Create a vCenter Server Appliance backup schedule • Restore vCenter Server Appliance from a backup • Monitor vCenter Server Appliance 5 Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks • Describe, create, and manage standard switches • Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping and load-balancing policies • Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches • Describe the virtual switch connection types • Describe the new TCP/IP stack architecture • Use VLANs with 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 VMware vSphere® VMFS and NFS datastores • Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage • Identify the advantages of VMware vSAN™ 7 Virtual Machine Management • Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines • Modify and manage virtual machines • Create an instant clone of a virtual machine • Identify the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them • Add a hot-pluggable device • Dynamically increase the size of a virtual disk • Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine • Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations • Create and manage virtual machine snapshots 8 Resource Management and Monitoring • Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment • Describe what overcommitment of a resource means • Identify additional technologies that improve memory usage • Configure and manage resource pools • 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 vSphere HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance, and Protecting Data • Explain the vSphere HA architecture • Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster • Use vSphere HA advanced parameters • Enforce infrastructural or intra-app dependencies during failover • Describe vSphere HA heartbeat networks and datastore heartbeats • Examine the features and functions of vSphere Fault Tolerance • Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines • Support vSphere Fault Tolerance interoperability with vSAN • Examine enhanced consolidation of vSphere Fault Tolerance virtual machines • Examine the features and functions of vSphere Replication 10 vSphere DRS • Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster • Create a vSphere DRS cluster • View information about a vSphere DRS cluster • Configure virtual machine affinity, DRS groups, and VM-host affinity rules • Remove a host from a vSphere DRS cluster 11 vSphere Update Manager • Describe the architecture, components, and capabilities of vSphere Update Manager • Use vSphere Update Manager to manage the patching of ESXi, virtual machines, and vApps • Examine the features and functions of vSphere Update Manager EAM integration • Integrate vSphere Update Manager with vSphere DRS 12 vSphere Troubleshooting • Apply a troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency • Review troubleshooting tools • Find important log files • Use vSphere Syslog Collector |
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