VMware vSphere 6.7: Install, Configure, Manage
This five-day course provides intensive hands-on training focused on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 6.7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 6.7 and VMware vCenter Server® 6.7. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for any size organization.
This course is the foundation for most other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.
COD: VSICM67
Category : VMware
DESCRIPTION
COURSE OBJECTIVES
COURSE CONTENT
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
DESCRIPTION
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
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Outgoing knowledge/skills
By the end of the course, you should be able to achieve the following objectives:
- Describe the software-defined data center
- Explain vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure.
- Add ESXi hosts to a VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ instance.
- Gestire vCenter Server Appliance
- Use a local content library as an ISO archive and deploy a virtual machine.
- Describe the vCenter Server architecture
- Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host
- Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware Host Client™ and VMware vSphere® Client™.
- Describe virtual networks with standard vSphere switches
- Configure standard switch policies
- Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage: VMware vSphere® VMFS, NFS, iSCSI and RDM
- Review the features and functions of Fiber Channel and VMware vSAN™.
- Manage virtual machines, templates, clones and snapshots.
- Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion®.
- Virtual machine storage migration with VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®.
- Monitor resource usage and manage resource pools
- Discuss the VMware vSphere® High Availability (vSphere HA) cluster architecture.
- Configure vSphere HA
- Gestire vSphere HA e VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
- Use VMware vSphere® Replication™ and VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ to replicate virtual machines and perform data recovery.
- Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters to improve host scalability.
- Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to patch and perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations.
- Identify troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose failures and improve troubleshooting efficiency
COURSE CONTENT
Educational program
1 Course Introduction
- Introduction and logistics of the course
- Objectives of the course
- Describe the course content
- 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 Quick Boot
3 Creating Virtual Machines
- Create, provision and remove a virtual machine
- Explain the importance of VMware Tools™.
- Describe how to import a virtual device OVF model
4 vCenter Server
- 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 virtual switch 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.
- Discover the benefits of VMware vSAN™.
7 Virtual Machine Management
- 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 virtual machine snapshots
8 Resource Management and Monitoring
- Discuss the concepts of CPU and memory in a virtualized environment.
- Describe what overcommitment of a resource means
- 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 Protecting Data
- 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 vSphere Update Manager
- 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 integration with EAM.
- Integrare vSphere Update Manager con vSphere DRS
12 vSphere Troubleshooting
- Apply a troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose failures and improve troubleshooting efficiency.
- Check the troubleshooters
- Find important registry files
- Use the vSphere Syslog collector
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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
