VMware vSphere: Advanced Administration Workshop [v7]
This five-day course offers 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 laboratory activities, students are immersed in real 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 step-by-step guided instruction. To complete the scenario-based lab exercises, you need to analyze the task, do research, and deduce the required solution. References and suggested documentation are provided.
Approximately 90% of the course is application focused and is taught through labs. The course aligns perfectly with the objectives of the VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization Deploy exam.
COD: VSAAW7
Categorie: VMware
Teaching methodology
The course includes educational laboratories in which each student will be able to work in order to complete training exercises that will provide practical experience in using the instrument, for each of the topics covered during the course.
Who should participate
- System administrators
- System engineers
Prerequisites
This course requires the following prerequisites:
- Completion of the VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7] course.
- Certificazione VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)
- System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
Outgoing knowledge/skills
By the end of the course, you should be able to achieve 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 vSANâ„¢ enabled cluster.
- Configure the VMware vCenter Server® identity provider.
- Troubleshoot host and storage connectivity issues
- Perform vSphere component lifecycle operations
- Implement vSphere and virtual machine security hardening guidelines
Educational program
1 Introduction to the course
- Introduction and logistics of the course
- Objectives of the course
- Introduction to the fictional company: VMBeans
2 Creating and configuring management clusters
- Enable cluster features that help improve resource allocation and availability of virtual machines
- Use standard vswitches to create networks in a cluster.
- Recognize when to use VMware vSphere® vMotion®.
- Recognize the requirements for using iSCSI
- Identify the purpose of iSCSI multipathing
- Select the appropriate vSphere storage types to meet your needs
- Recognize when to configure ESXi NTP support
- Recognize best practices for ESXi user accounts
- Configure ESXi hosts settings
- Use host profiles appropriately
3 Creation and configuration of production clusters
- Use Cluster Quickstart to create a vSAN-enabled cluster
- Configure vSphere HA advanced settings
- Recognize the benefits of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)
- Configure the vCenter Server identity provider
- Assign specific permissions and roles to AD FS users
- Recognize the benefits of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility for virtual machine mobility.
- Perform a cross vCenter Server migration
- Use content libraries to share virtual machine templates between sites.
4 Troubleshooting vSphere and backing up configurations
- ESXi connectivity troubleshooting
- iSCSI storage troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting vSphere cluster resources
- Troubleshooting VMware PowerCLI
- Back up vCenter Server
5 Lifecycle management
- Troubleshoot update blocking issues
- Increase log levels on vCenter Server
- Setting up a shared VMware Tools repository
- vCenter Server upgrade
- ESXi update
- VMware tools update
- Update VM compatibility
- Working with virtual machine placement rules
6 vSphere Security
- Manage advanced configurations of virtual machines
- Set up a key management server
- Encrypt virtual machines with vSphere VM encryption
- Protect virtual machines in transit with encrypted vSphere vMotion
- Identify and implement the 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
Duration – 5 days
Delivery – in Classroom, On Site, Remote
PC and SW requirements:
- Internet connection
- Web browser, Google Chrome
- Zoom
Language
Instructor: English
Labs: English
Slides: English
