VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7]

Course Description:

  The VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7] course is a 5-day course that was designed to help students learn how to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size.

This course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 6.7, which includes VMware ESXi 6.7 and VMware vCenter Server 6.7. This course trains students on how to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. It is the foundation for most VMware technologies in the software-defined data center and helps accelerate the transformation to cloud computing.

This course also fulfills a course requirement for the VMware Certified Professional 6.5 - Data Center Virtualization (VCP6.5-DCV) exam.

Exclusives included with your course purchase:

• vSphere Foundations Exam Voucher. (a $125 value)
• 12 Month post lab access.
• A practice test from Kaplan IT.
• Exam Objectives PDF.

Topics covered in the course include:

• Describing the software-defined data center
• Explaining the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure
• Adding ESXi hosts to a VMware vCenter Server Appliance instance
• Managing vCenter Server Appliance
• Using a local content library as an ISO store, and deploy a virtual machine
• Describing vCenter Server architecture
• Using vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host
• Configuring and managing vSphere infrastructure with VMware Host Client and VMware vSphere Client Describe virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
• Configuring standard switch policies
• Using vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage: VMware vSphere VMFS, NFS, iSCSI, and RDM
• Examining the features and functions of Fibre Channel and VMware vSAN
• Managing virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
• Migrating virtual machines with VMware vSphere vMotion
• Migrating virtual machine storage with VMware vSphere Storage vMotion
• Monitoring resource usage, and manage resource pools
• Discussing the VMware vSphere High Availability cluster architecture
• Configuring vSphere HA
• Managing vSphere HA and VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance
• Using VMware vSphere Replication and VMware vSphere Data Protection to replicate virtual machines and perform data recovery
• Using VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler clusters to improve host scalability
• Using VMware vSphere Update Manager to apply patches and perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations
• Identifying troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency

Target Student: This course is ideal for:

• System administrators
• System engineers

Course Outline

Section 1. Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Describing the content of the course
• Gaining a complete picture of the VMware certification system
• Familiarizing yourself with the benefits of the VMware Education Learning Zone
• Identifying additional resources

Section 2. Introduction to vSphere and the SoftwareDefined Data Center

• Describing how vSphere fits into the softwaredefined data center and the cloud infrastructure
• Explaining how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage
• Using vSphere Client to access and manage your vCenter Server system and ESXi host
• Comparing virtual machine hardware version 14 to other versions
• Identifying the virtual network adapters, and Describing the enhanced VMXNET3
• Comparing the types of virtual disk provisioning
• Identifying the advantages of ESXi Quick Boot

Section 3. Creating Virtual Machines

• Creating, provision, and remove a virtual machine
• Explaining the importance of VMware Tools™
• Describing how to import a virtual appliance OVF template
• Manage VMware Tools
• Explaining troubleshooting OS installation and VMware Tools

Section 4. vCenter Server

• Describing the vCenter Server architecture
• Discussing how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
• Identifying the vCenter Server services, components, and modules
• Access and Configuring vCenter Server Appliance
• Using vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory
• Describing the rules for applying permissions
• Creating a custom role in vCenter Server
• Creating a backup schedule
• Restore vCenter Server Appliance from backup
• Monitor vCenter Server Appliance

Section 5. Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

• Describing, create, and manage standard switches
• Configuring virtual switch security and loadbalancing policies
• Comparing vSphere distributed switches and standard switches
• Describing the virtual switch connection types
• Describing the new TCP/IP stack architecture
• Using VLANs with standard switches

Section 6. Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

• Identifying storage protocols and storage device types
• Discussing ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• Creating and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS and NFS datastores
• Describing the new features of VMFS 6.5
• Identifying the advantages of VMware vSAN™
• Describing guest file encryption

Section 7. Virtual Machine Management

• Using templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
• Modify and manage virtual machines
• Clone a virtual machine
• Upgrade virtual machine hardware to version 14
• Removing virtual machines from the vCenter Server inventory and datastore
• Using customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine
• Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
• Creating and manage virtual machine snapshots
• Creating, clone, and export vApps
• Identifying the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them

Section 8. Resource Management and Monitoring

• Discussing CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment
• Describing what over commitment of a resource means
• Identifying additional technologies that improve memory usage
• Configuring and manage resource pools
• Describing methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
• Using various tools to monitor resource usage
• Creating and use alarms to report certain conditions or events

Section 9. vSphere HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance, and Protecting Data

• Explaining the vSphere HA architecture
• Configuring and manage a vSphere HA cluster
• Using vSphere HA advanced parameters
• Enforce infrastructural or intra-app dependencies during failover
• Describing vSphere HA heartbeat networks and datastore heartbeats
• Examining the features and functions of vSphere Fault Tolerance
• Enabling vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines
• Supporting vSphere Fault Tolerance interoperability with vSAN
• Examining enhanced consolidation of vSphere Fault Tolerance virtual machines
• Examining the features and functions of vSphere Replication

Section 10. vSphere DRS

• Describing the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
• Creating a vSphere DRS cluster
• Viewing information about a vSphere DRS cluster
• Configuring virtual machine affinity, DRS groups, and VM-host affinity rules
• Removing a host from a vSphere DRS cluster

Section 11. vSphere Update Manager

• Describing the new architecture, components, and capabilities of vSphere Update Manager
• Using vSphere Update Manager to manage the patching of ESXi, virtual machines, and vApps
• Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in
• Creating patch baselines
• Using host profiles to manage host configuration compliance
• Examining the features and functions of vSphere Update Manager EAM integration
• Integrate vSphere Update Manager with vSphere DRS
• Scan and remediate hosts 12 vSphere Troubleshooting
• Define the scope of troubleshooting
• Using a structured approach to solve configuration and operational problems
• Identifying troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency