VMware vSphere: Skills for Public Sector Administrators [V6.7]
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- Formats:
Classroom,
Live Online,
vFlex-ILT,
Onsite
- Length: 5 Days
Overview:
This five-day, intensive course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere® management skills. Building on the installation and configuration content from VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7], you will 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 6.7. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size using vSphere 6.7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 6.7 and VMware vCenter Server® 6.7.
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: • Install and configure ESXi hosts • Deploy and configure VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ • Use VMware Host Client™, VMware vSphere® Web Client, and VMware vSphere® Client™ to manage the vCenter Server inventory and the vCenter Server configuration • 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 vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots • Create a content library for deploying virtual machines • Manage virtual machine resource usage and manage resource pools • Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® • Describe the methods for protecting and recovering virtual machine data • Create and manage a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ • Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches and perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines • Encrypt virtual machines for additional security |
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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 this 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 and vSphere Fault Tolerance • 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 and Host Maintenance • 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 Securing Virtual Machines • Set up encryption in your vSphere environment • Encrypt virtual machines • Encrypt core dumps • Enable encrypted vSphere vMotion • Describe support for virtual machine security features, such as UEFI secure boot, vTPM, and virtualization- based security |
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