VMware vSphere: Advanced Administration Workshop [V7]
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- Formats:
Classroom,
Live Online,
vFlex-ILT,
Onsite
- Length: 5 Days
Overview:
This five-day course provides hands-on training to equip students with a range of skills: from performing routine VMware vSphere® 7 administrative tasks to complex vSphere operations and configurations. Through lab-based activities, students are immersed in real-life situations faced by VMBeans, a fictitious company. These situations expose students to real-life scenarios faced by companies that are building and scaling their virtual infrastructure.
This course uses scenario-based lab exercises and does not provide guided step-by-step instructions. To complete the scenario-based lab exercises, you are required to analyze the task, research, and deduce the required solution. References and suggested documentation are provided. Approximately 90% of the class is application-focused and taught through labs. The course aligns fully with the VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization Deploy exam objectives. Product Alignment • VMware ESXi™ 7 • VMware vCenter Server 7 |
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| Objectives: | By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives: • Enable cluster features and configure vSphere storage and networking • Use host profiles to automate host configurations • Use Cluster Quickstart to create a VMware vSAN™ enabled cluster • Configure the VMware vCenter Server® identity provider • Troubleshoot host connectivity and storage connectivity • Perform lifecycle operations on vSphere components • Implement security hardening guidelines to vSphere and virtual machines |
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| Intended Audience: | • System administrators • System engineer |
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| Prerequisites: | This course requires the following prerequisites: • Completion of VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7] course • VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) certification • System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems |
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| Outline: | 1 Course Introduction • Introductions and course logistics • Course objectives • Introduction to fictitious company: VMBeans 2 Creating and Configuring Management Clusters • Enable cluster features that help to improve resource allocation and availability of virtual machines • Use standard virtual switches to create networking in a cluster • Recognize when to use VMware vSphere® vMotion® • Recognize requirements for using iSCSI • Identify the purpose of iSCSI multipathing • Select the appropriate vSphere storage types to meet requirements • Recognize when to configure ESXi NTP support • Recognize ESXi user account best practices • Configure ESXi host settings • Use host profiles appropriately 3 Creating and Configuring Productions Clusters • Use Cluster Quickstart to create a vSAN enabled cluster • Configure advanced vSphere HA settings • Recognize the benefits of Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) • Configure the vCenter Server identity provider • Assign specific permissions and roles to ADFS users • Recognize how Enhanced vMotion Compatibility benefits VM mobility • Perform a Cross vCenter Server Migration • Use content libraries to share virtual machine templates between sites 4 Troubleshooting vSphere and Backing Up Configurations • Troubleshoot ESXi connectivity issues • Troubleshoot iSCSI storage issues • Troubleshoot vSphere cluster resources • Troubleshoot VMware PowerCLI™ issues • Back up vCenter Server 5 Lifecycle Management • Troubleshoot upgrade-blocking issues • Increase logging levels on vCenter Server • Configure a VMware Tools™ shared repository • Upgrade vCenter Server • Upgrade ESXi • Upgrade VMware Tools • Upgrade Virtual Machine Compatibility • Work with VM placement rules 6 vSphere Security • Manage advanced virtual machine configurations • Configure a key management server • Encrypt virtual machines using vSphere VM encryption • Secure VMs in transit with encrypted vSphere vMotion • Identify and implement different ESXi CPU scheduler options • Apply security hardening guidelines to ESXi hosts • Replace vCenter Server certificates with trusted CA-signed certificates • Deploy a new vCenter Server instance • Reconfigure the primary network identifier for vCenter Server |
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