This five-day, intensive course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere® 7 management skills. Building on the installation and configuration content from our best-selling course, you will also 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 7. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a truly 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 7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 7 and VMware vCenter Server® 7.
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Certifications
Attendance of this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification:
35 godzin (5 dni x 7 godzin), w tym wykłady i warsztaty praktyczne.
1. Course Introduction
a. Introductions and course logistics
b. Course objectives
3. Virtual Machines
a. Create and provision a virtual machine
b. Explain the importance of VMware Tools™
c. Install VMware Tools
d. Identify the files that make up a VM
e. Recognize the components of a VM
f. Recognize virtual devices supported by a VM
g. Describe the benefits and use cases for containers
h. Identify the parts of a container system
4. vCenter Server
a. Describe the vCenter Server architecture
b. Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
c. Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
d. Use the vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory
e. Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server
f. Use roles and permissions to enable users to access objects in the vCenter
Server inventory
g. Back up vCenter Server Appliance
h. Monitor vCenter Server tasks, events, and appliance health
i. Use vCenter Server High Availability to protect a vCenter Server Appliance
5. Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
a. Create and manage standard switches
b. Describe the virtual switch connection types
c. Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping and load-balancing policies
d. Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches
6. Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
a. Identify storage protocols and storage device types
b. Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
c. Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores
d. Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel
storage
e. Recognize the components of a VMware vSAN™ configuration
7. Virtual Machine Management
a. Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
b. Modify and manage virtual machines
c. Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the
library
d. Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine
e. Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
f. Describe Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
g. Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
h. Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Replication™
i. Describe the benefits of vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection
8. Resource Management and Monitoring
a. Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment
b. Describe what overcommitment of a resource means
c. Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
d. Use various tools to monitor resource use
e. Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events
9. vSphere Clusters
a. Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
b. Create a vSphere DRS cluster
c. Monitor a vSphere cluster configuration
d. Describe options for making a vSphere environment highly available
e. Explain the vSphere HA architecture
f. Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
g. Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
h. Describe the function of the vSphere® Cluster Service
10. Network Scalability
a. Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
b. Describe how VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control enhances
performance
c. Explain distributed switch features such as port mirroring and NetFlow
11. vSphere Lifecycle Management
a. Recognize the importance of vCenter Server Update Planner
b. Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works
c. Describe how to update ESXi hosts using baselines
d. Validate ESXi host compliance using a cluster image
e. Describe how to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware
f. Describe VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ and VMware vSAN™
integration
12. Host and Management Scalability
a. Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
b. Create and manage resource pools in a cluster
c. Describe how scalable shares work
13. Storage Scalability
a. Explain why VMware vSphere® VMFS is a high-performance, scalable file
system
b. Explain VMware vSphere® Storage APIs - Array Integration, VMware
vSphere® API for Storage Awareness™, and vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering
c. Configure and assign virtual machine storage policies
d. Create VMware vSAN™ storage policies
e. Recognize components of the vSphere Virtual Volumes architecture
f. Configure VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ and VMware vSphere®
Storage I/O Control
