VMware vSphere: Fast Track [6.7]
This five-day intensive course builds you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere® 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 highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lectures and hands-on labs, you will install, configure and manage vSphere 6.7. You’ll explore the features that form the foundation of a truly scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. The course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for any size organization using vSphere 6.7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 6.7 and VMware vCenter Server® 6.7.
COD: VSFT67
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:
- 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 vCenter Server inventory and vCenter Server configuration.
- 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 vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones and snapshots.
- Create a content library for deploying virtual machines.
- Manage VM resource usage and manage resource pools
- Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®.
- Describe methods for protecting and recovering virtual machine data.
- 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.
- Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to patch and perform updates to 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
- Configurare VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control e VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™.
- Encrypt virtual machines for added security
- Certifications
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
- Description of the contents of this course
- Get 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 cloud infrastructure.
- Explain how vSphere interacts with CPU, memory, networking, and storage.
- Use vSphere Client to access and manage vCenter Server system and ESXi host.
- Compare VM hardware version 14 to other versions
- Identify virtual network adapters and describe the enhanced VMXNET3.
- Compare the provisioning types of virtual disks
- Install and configure ESXi host settings
- Identify the benefits of ESXi’s fast startup.
3 Creating virtual machines
- Create, provision and remove a virtual machine
- Explain the importance of VMware Tools™.
- Describe how to import a virtual machine OVF template
4 Server vCenter
- Describe the vCenter Server architecture
- Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server.
- Access and configure the vCenter Server appliance
- Use vSphere Client to manage vCenter Server inventory.
- Add data centers, 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 the vCenter Server device
5 Configuring and managing virtual networks
- Describe, create and manage standard switches
- Configure vswitch security, traffic-shaping, and load-balancing policies.
- Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches
- Describe the connection types of vswitches
- Describe the new TCP/IP stack architecture
- Use VLANs with 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 VMware vSphere® VMFS and NFS datastores.
- Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel storage.
- Identify the benefits of VMware vSAN™.
7 Management of virtual machines
- Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines.
- Edit and manage virtual machines
- Create an instant clone of a virtual machine
- Identify the types of content libraries and how to distribute and use them.
- Add a hot-pluggable device
- Dynamically increase the size of a virtual disk
- Use the customization spec files to customize a new virtual machine.
- Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
- Create and manage snapshots of virtual machines
8 Management and monitoring of resources
- Discuss the concepts of CPU and memory in a virtualized environment.
- Describe the meaning of resource overcommitment
- 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, vSphere Fault Tolerance and data protection
- Explain the vSphere HA architecture
- Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
- Use vSphere HA advanced parameters
- Apply infrastructure or intra-app dependencies during failover
- Describe vSphere HA heartbeat networks and datastore heartbeats.
- Review the features and functions of vSphere Fault Tolerance
- Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines
- Support for vSphere Fault Tolerance interoperability with vSAN
- Review advanced virtual machine consolidation of vSphere Fault Tolerance
- Review the features and functions of vSphere Replication
10 vSphere DRS
- Describe the features of a vSphere DRS cluster
- Creare un cluster vSphere DRS
- View information about a vSphere DRS cluster
- Configure VM affinity, DRS groups, and VM-host affinity rules.
- Remove a host from a vSphere DRS cluster
11 Scalability of the network
- Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
- Explain distributed features such as port mirroring, LACP, QoS tagging, and NetFlow.
- Configure port mirroring on a distributed switch
12 Managing vSphere Updates and Host Maintenance
- Describe the vSphere Update Manager architecture, components, and features.
- Use vSphere Update Manager to manage patching of ESXi, virtual machines and vApps.
- Review the features and functions of vSphere Update Manager EAM integration.
- Integrare vSphere Update Manager con vSphere DRS
- Describe and use host profiles
13 Scalability of storage
- Explain VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Array Integration, VMware vSphere® API for Storage Awareness™, and vSphere API for I/O Filtering
- Configure and assign virtual machine storage policies
- Configuring vSphere Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control
14 Protecting virtual machines
- Set up encryption in the 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.
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
