VMware vSphere: Fast Track [v7]
This intensive five-day course builds you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere® 7 management skills. Building on the installation and configuration content of our best-selling course, you’ll also develop the advanced skills needed to manage and maintain a virtual infrastructure highly available and scalable. Through a mix of lectures and hands-on labs, you’ll install, configure, and manage vSphere 7. You’ll explore the features that form the foundation of a truly scalable infrastructure, and discuss when and where those features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for any size organization using vSphere 7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 7 and VMware vCenter Server® 7.
COD: VSFT7
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
- 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:
- Describe the software-defined data center (SDDC)
- Explain vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure.
- Describe the benefits and features of VMware Skyline.
- Install and configure VMware ESXi™ hosts.
- Deploy and configure VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™.
- Use VMware vSphere® Client™ to manage vCenter Server inventory and vCenter Server configuration.
- Manage, monitor, backup and secure the vCenter Server appliance.
- Create virtual networks with standard vSphere switches
- Describe the storage technologies supported by vSphere.
- Configure virtual storage using iSCSI and NFS storage
- Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores.
- Use the vSphere client to create virtual machines, templates, clones and snapshots.
- Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from library templates.
- Manage VM resource usage and manage resource pools
- Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®.
- Create and manage a vSphere cluster enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™.
- Create virtual networks with VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™ and enable distributed switch capabilities.
- Discuss vSphere lifecycle management solutions
- Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to perform upgrades of ESXi hosts and virtual machines.
- Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance.
- Describe how vSphere Storage APIs help storage systems integrate with vSphere.
- Configure and use virtual machine storage policies
Participation in this course meets the training requirements for the following certification:
- VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)
Educational program
1 Introduction to the course
- Introduction and logistics of the course
- Objectives of the course
2 Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center
- Explain the basic concepts of virtualization
- Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and cloud infrastructure.
- Explain how vSphere interacts with CPU, memory, networking, and storage.
- Recognize the user interfaces to access the vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts.
- Describe the architecture of ESXi hosts
- Navigate the direct console user interface (DCUI) to configure an ESXi host
- Recognize best practices for the ESXi host user account
- Install an ESXi host
- Use VMware Host Client™ to configure ESXi host settings.
- Describe how to proactively manage your vSphere environment using VMware Skyline.
3 Virtual Machines
- Create and provision a virtual machine
- Explain the importance of VMware Tools™.
- Install VMware Tools
- Identify the files that make up a virtual machine
- Recognize the components of a virtual machine
- Recognize the virtual devices supported by a virtual machine
- Describe the benefits and use cases of containers
- Identify the parts of a container system
4 vCenter Server
- Describe the vCenter Server architecture
- Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server.
- Deploy and configure the vCenter Server appliance
- Use the vSphere client to manage vCenter Server inventory.
- Add data centers, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server.
- Use roles and permissions to allow users to access vCenter Server inventory objects.
- Back up vCenter Server Appliance
- Monitor vCenter Server appliance activities, events, and status.
- Use vCenter Server High Availability to protect a vCenter Server appliance.
5 Configuring and managing virtual networks
- Create and manage standard switches
- Describe the connection types of vswitches
- Configure vswitch security, traffic-shaping, and load-balancing policies.
- Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches
6 Configuring and managing virtual storage
- Identify storage protocols and types of storage devices
- Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel storage.
- Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores.
- Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel storage.
- Recognize the components of a VMware vSAN™ configuration.
7 Management of virtual machines
- Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines.
- Edit and manage virtual machines
- Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library.
- Use the customization spec files to customize a new virtual machine.
- Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
- Describe advanced vMotion compatibility
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
- Review the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Replication™.
- Describe the benefits of vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection
8 Management and monitoring of resources
- Discuss the concepts of CPU and memory in a virtualized environment.
- Describe the meaning of resource overcommitment
- 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 Cluster vSphere
- Describe the features of a vSphere DRS cluster
- Creare un cluster vSphere DRS
- Monitor the configuration of a vSphere cluster
- Describe options for making a vSphere environment highly available
- Explain the vSphere HA architecture
- Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
- Review the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
- Describe the function of vSphere® Cluster Service.
10 Scalability of the network
- Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
- Describe how VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control improves performance.
- Explain the features of distributed switches, such as port mirroring and NetFlow.
11 vSphere Lifecycle Management
- Recognize the importance of the vCenter Server Update Planner
- Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works.
- Describe how to upgrade ESXi hosts using baselines.
- Validate compliance of ESXi hosts using a cluster image
- Describe how to update VMware tools and virtual machine hardware.
- Describe the integration between VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ and VMware vSAN™.
12 Scalability of hosting and management
- Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
- Create and manage resource pools in a cluster
- Describe how scalable shares work
13 Scalability of storage
- Explain why VMware vSphere® VMFS is a high performance and scalable file system.
- Spiegare le API di storage di VMware vSphere® – Array Integration, VMware vSphere® API for Storage awareness™ e vSphere API for I/O Filtering.
- Configure and assign virtual machine storage policies
- Create VMware vSAN storage policies
- Recognize the architectural components of vSphere Virtual Volumes.
- Configurazione di VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ e VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control
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
