VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V8]

Metodologia didattica

Il corso prevede laboratori didattici in cui ciascuno studente potrà lavorare ai fini di portare a termine esercizi formativi che forniranno esperienza pratica nell’utilizzo dello strumento, per ciascuno degli argomenti affrontati durante il corso.

Chi dovrebbe partecipare

• Amministratori di sistema
• Ingegneri di sistema

Prerequisiti

Esperienza di amministrazione di sistema su sistemi operativi Microsoft Windows o Linux

Conoscenze/Competenze in uscita

Al termine del corso, dovreste essere in grado di raggiungere i seguenti obiettivi:

• Installare e configurare gli host ESXi
• Distribuire e configurare vCenter
• Utilizzare il client vSphere per creare l’inventario di vCenter e assegnare i ruoli agli utenti di vCenter.
• Configurare vCenter High Availability
• Creare e configurare reti virtuali utilizzando gli switch standard e gli switch distribuiti di vSphere.
• Creare e configurare i datastore utilizzando le tecnologie di storage supportate da vSphere.
• Utilizzare il client vSphere per creare macchine virtuali, modelli, cloni e snapshot.
• Configurare e gestire un repository di strumenti VMware.
• Creare librerie di contenuti per la gestione dei modelli e la distribuzione delle macchine virtuali.
• Gestire l’uso delle risorse delle macchine virtuali
• Migrare le macchine virtuali con vSphere vMotion e vSphere Storage vMotion
• Creare e configurare un cluster vSphere abilitato con vSphere High Availability e vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler.
• Gestire il ciclo di vita di vSphere per mantenere aggiornati vCenter, gli host ESXi e le macchine virtuali.
• Configurare e gestire la rete e lo storage di vSphere per un’azienda grande e sofisticata.
• Utilizzare i profili host per gestire la conformità degli host VMware ESXi.
• Monitorare le prestazioni di vCenter, ESXi e delle macchine virtuali nel client di vSphere.

Programma didattico

1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 vSphere and Virtualization Overview
• Explain basic virtualization concepts
• Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
• Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
• Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs
• Install an ESXi host

3 vCenter Management
• Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter
• Deploy vCenter Server Appliance
• Configure vCenter settings
• Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys
• Create and organize vCenter inventory objects
• Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions
• View vSphere tasks and events
• Create a vCenter backup schedule
• Recognize the importance of vCenter High Availability
• Explain how vCenter High Availability works

4 Deploying Virtual Machines
• Create and provision VMs
• Explain the importance of VMware Tools
• Identify the files that make up a VM
• Recognize the components of a VM
• Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options
• Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources
• Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them
• Clone VMs
• Create customization specifications for guest operating systems
• Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries
• Deploy VMs from content libraries
• Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries

5 Configure and Manage vSphere Networking
• Configure and view standard switch configurations
• Configure and view distributed switch configurations
• Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches
• Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches

6 Configure and Manage vSphere Storage
• Recognize vSphere storage technologies
• Identify types of vSphere datastores
• Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing
• Describe iSCSI components and addressing
• Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi
• Create and manage VMFS datastores
• Configure and manage NFS datastores
• Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies

7 Managing Virtual Machines
• Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances
• Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion
• Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations
• Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion
• Take a snapshot of a VM
• Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots
• Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment
• Describe how VMs compete for resources
• Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits
• Recognize the role of a VMware Tools Repository
• Configure a VMware Tools Repository
• Recognize the backup and restore solution for VMs

8 vSphere Monitoring
• Monitor the key factors that can affect a virtual machine’s performance
• Describe the factors that influence vCenter performance
• Use vCenter tools to monitor resource use
• Create custom alarms in vCenter
• Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
• Recognize uses for Skyline Advisor Pro

9 Deploying and Configuring vSphere Cluster
• Use Cluster Quickstart to enable vSphere cluster services and configure the cluster
• View information about a vSphere cluster
• Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster
• Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings
• Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster
• Describe how vSphere HA responds to different types of failures
• Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster
• Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings
• Configure a cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
• Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance
• Describe the function of the vCLS
• Recognize operations that might disrupt the healthy functioning of vCLS VMs

10 ESXi Operations
• Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
• Recognize the benefits of using configuration profiles

11 Managing the vSphere Lifecycle
• Generate vCenter interoperability reports
• Recognize features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Describe ESXi images and image depots
• Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
• Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and remediate ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations
• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware

12 Network Operations
• Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
• Describe how VMware vSphere Network I/O Control enhances performance
• Define vSphere Distributed Services Engine
• Describe the use cases and benefits of vSphere Distributed Services Engine

13 Storage Operations
• Describe the architecture and requirements of vSAN configuration
• Describe storage policy-based management
• Recognize components in the vSphere Virtual Volumes architecture
• Configure Storage I/O Control

Durata – 5 giorni

Erogazione – in Aula, On Site, Remoto

Requisiti PC e SW:

• Connessione Internet
• Web browser, Google Chrome
• Zoom

Language
Trainer: Italiano
Labs: Inglese
Slides: Inglese