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VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

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This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere, which includes VMware ESXi and VMware vCenter Server. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. This course is the foundation for most of the other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for system administrators and system engineers who are interested in use, installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere, ESXi and vCenter Server.

Prerequisites

  • System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.

Course outline

Module 1: Course Introduction

Module Overview

This module will help you become proficient in the skills needed to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere® using a variety of vSphere functions and features and the practical skills needed to administer a vSphere infrastructure of any size.

Lessons

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
Describe the content of the course
Gain a complete picture of the VMware certification system
Familiarize yourself with the benefits of the VMware Education Learning Zone
Identify additional resources

Lab Sessions

Not available for this module

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understanding what VMware vSphere is.

Module 2: Introduction to vSphere and the SoftwareDefined Data Center

Module Overview

This module will help you become proficient in the skills needed to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere® using a variety of vSphere functions and features and the practical skills needed to administer a vSphere infrastructure of any size.

Lessons

Describe how vSphere fits into the softwaredefined data center and the cloud infrastructure
Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage
Use vSphere Client to access and manage your vCenter Server system and ESXi host
Compare virtual machine hardware version 14 to other versions
Identify the virtual network adapters, and describe the enhanced VMXNET3
Compare the types of virtual disk provisioning
Install and configure ESXi host settings
Identify the advantages of ESXi Quick Boot

Lab Sessions

Not available for this module

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the software-defined data center.
Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure.
Add ESXi hosts to a VMware vCenter Server Appliance instance.
Manage vCenter Server Appliance.
Use a local content library as an ISO store, and deploy a virtual machine.

Module 3: Creating Virtual Machines

Module Overview

This module will help you become proficient in the skills needed to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere® using a variety of vSphere functions and features and the practical skills needed to administer a vSphere infrastructure of any size.

Lessons

Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine
Explain the importance of VMware Tools
Describe how to import a virtual appliance OVF template

Lab Sessions

Deploying and Configuring Virtual Machines

Lab Lessons

Create and prepare a virtual machine for use

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand how create, provision, and remove a virtual machine.
Describe how to import a virtual appliance OVF template.
Explain and describe the importance of VMware Tools.

Module 4: vCenter Server

Module Overview

This module will help you become proficient in the skills needed to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere® using a variety of vSphere functions and features and the practical skills needed to administer a vSphere infrastructure of any size.

Lessons

Describe the vCenter Server architecture
Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
Access and configure vCenter Server Appliance
Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory
Add data center, 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 vCenter Server Appliance

Lab Sessions

Working with vCenter Server Appliance
Users, Groups, and Permissions

Lab Lessons

Configure and use vCenter Server Appliance
Assign roles and permissions to Active Directory users to perform functions in vCenter Server Appliance

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe vCenter Server architecture.
Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host.
Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware Host Client and VMware vSphere Client.

Module 5: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

Module Overview

This module will help you become proficient in the skills needed to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere® using a variety of vSphere functions and features and the practical skills needed to administer a vSphere infrastructure of any size.

Lessons

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 virtual switch connection types
Describe the new TCP/IP stack architecture
Use VLANs with standard switches

Lab Sessions

Using Standard Switches

Lab Lessons

Create a standard switch and a port group

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe virtual networks with vSphere standard switches.
Configure standard switch policies.

Module 6: Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

Module Overview

This module will help you become proficient in the skills needed to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere® using a variety of vSphere functions and features and the practical skills needed to administer a vSphere infrastructure of any size.

Lessons

Identify storage protocols and storage device types
Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS and NFS datastores
Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
Identify the advantages of VMware vSAN

Lab Sessions

Accessing iSCSI Storage
Managing VMFS Datastores
Accessing NFS Storage

Lab Lessons

Configure access to an iSCSI datastore
Create and manage VMFS datastores
Configure access to an NFS datastore

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage: VMware vSphere® VMFS, NFS, iSCSI, and RDM.
Examine the features and functions of Fibre Channel and VMware vSAN.

Module 7: Virtual Machine Management

Module Overview

This module will help you become proficient in the skills needed to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere® using a variety of vSphere functions and features and the practical skills needed to administer a vSphere infrastructure of any size.

Lessons

Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
Modify and manage virtual machines
Create an instant clone of a virtual machine
Identify the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them
Add a hot-pluggable device
Dynamically increase the size of a virtual disk
Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine
Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
Create and manage virtual machine snapshots

Lab Sessions

Using Templates and Clones
Using Content Libraries
Modifying Virtual Machines
Migrating Virtual Machines
Managing Virtual Machines

Lab Lessons

Deploy a new virtual machine from a template and clone a virtual machine
Create a content library to clone and deploy virtual machines
Modify a virtual machine’s hardware and add a raw LUN to a virtual machine
Use vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion to migrate virtual machines
Perform virtual machine management tasks

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots.
Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere vMotion.
Migrate virtual machine storage with VMware vSphere Storage vMotion.
Monitor resource usage, and manage resource pools.

Module 8: Resource Management and Monitoring

Module Overview

This module will help you become proficient in the skills needed to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere® using a variety of vSphere functions and features and the practical skills needed to administer a vSphere infrastructure of any size.

Lessons

Discuss CPU and memory concepts 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

Lab Sessions

Managing Resource Pools
Monitoring Virtual Machine Performance
Using Alarms

Lab Lessons

In vCenter Server, create and use resource pools on an ESXi host
Use the system monitoring tools to reflect the CPU workload
Use the vCenter Server Appliance alarm feature

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand how to Resource Management and Monitoring.

Module 9: vSphere HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance and Protecting Data

Module Overview

This module will help you become proficient in the skills needed to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere® using a variety of vSphere functions and features and the practical skills needed to administer a vSphere infrastructure of any size.

Lessons

Explain the vSphere HA architecture
Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
Use vSphere HA advanced parameters
Enforce infrastructural or intra-app dependencies during failover
Describe vSphere HA heartbeat networks and datastore heartbeats
Examine the features and functions of vSphere Fault Tolerance
Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines
Support vSphere Fault Tolerance interoperability with vSAN
Examine enhanced consolidation of vSphere Fault Tolerance virtual machines
Examine the features and functions of vSphere Replication

Lab Sessions

Using vSphere HA

Lab Lessons

Use vSphere HA functionality

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Discuss the VMware vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) cluster architecture.
Configure vSphere HA.
Manage vSphere HA and VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance.
Use VMware vSphere Replication and VMware vSphere Data Protection to replicate virtual machines and perform data recovery.

Module 10: vSphere DRS

Module Overview

This module will help you become proficient in the skills needed to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere® using a variety of vSphere functions and features and the practical skills needed to administer a vSphere infrastructure of any size.

Lessons

Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
Create a vSphere DRS cluster
View information about a vSphere DRS cluster
Configure virtual machine affinity, DRS groups, and VM-host affinity rules
Remove a host from a vSphere DRS cluster

Lab Sessions

Implementing vSphere DRS Clusters

Lab Lessons

Implement a vSphere DRS cluster

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Use VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler clusters to improve host scalability.

Module 11: vSphere Update Manager

Module Overview

This module will help you become proficient in the skills needed to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere® using a variety of vSphere functions and features and the practical skills needed to administer a vSphere infrastructure of any size.

Lessons

Describe the architecture, components, and capabilities of vSphere Update Manager
Use vSphere Update Manager to manage the patching of ESXi, virtual machines, and vApps
Examine the features and functions of vSphere Update Manager EAM integration
Integrate vSphere Update Manager with vSphere DRS

Lab Sessions

Using vSphere Update Manager

Lab Lessons

Install, configure, and use vSphere Update Manager

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Use VMware vSphere Update Manager to apply patches and perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations.

Module 12: vSphere Troubleshooting

Module Overview

This module will help you become proficient in the skills needed to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere® using a variety of vSphere functions and features and the practical skills needed to administer a vSphere infrastructure of any size.

Lessons

Apply a troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency
Review troubleshooting tools
Find important log files
Use vSphere Syslog Collector

Lab Sessions

Not available for this module

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Identify troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency.

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