VMware Horizon: Install, Configure, Manage

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [7.x] is a 5-day course which features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere© 7, which includes VMware ESXi 7 and VMware vCenter Server© 7. 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.

Course Information

Price: $4,250.00
Duration: 5 days
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Prerequisites:

The knowledge and skills that a learner should have before attending this course are

as follows:

  • System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems


 

Target Audience:

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

  • System administrators
  • System engineers

 

Course Objectives:

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:

  • Describe the software-defined data center (SDDC)
  • Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure
  • Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
  • Install and configure ESXi hosts
  • Deploy and configure VMware vCenter©_ Server Appliance
  • Use VMware vSphere©_ Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory and the vCenter Server configuration
  • Manage, monitor, back up, and protect vCenter Server Appliance
  • Create virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
  • Describe the storage technologies supported by vSphere
  • Configure virtual storage using iSCSI and NFS storage
  • Create and manage VMware vSphere©_ VMFS datastores
  • Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
  • Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library
  • Manage virtual machine resource use
  • Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere©_ vMotion©_ and VMware vSphere©_ Storage vMotion©_
  • Create and manage a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere©_ High Availability and VMware vSphere©_ Distributed Resource Scheduler
  • Discuss solutions for managing the vSphere life cycle
  • Use VMware vSphere©_ Lifecycle Manager to perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines

 

Course Outline:

Module 1: Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

Module 2: Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center

  • Explain basic virtualization concepts
  • Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
  • Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage
  • Recognize the user interfaces for accessing the vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts
  • Describe the ESXi host architecture
  • Navigate the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) to configure an ESXi host
  • Recognize ESXi host user account best practices
  • Install an ESXi host
  • Use VMware Host Client to configure ESXi host settings
  • Describe how to proactively manage your vSphere environment using VMware Skyline

Module 3: Virtual Machines

  • Create and provision a virtual machine
  • Explain the importance of VMware Tools
  • Install VMware Tools
  • Identify the files that make up a VM
  • Recognize the components of a VM
  • Recognize virtual devices supported by a VM
  • Describe the benefits and use cases for containers
  • Identify the parts of a container system

Module 4: vCenter Server

  • Describe the vCenter Server architecture
  • Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
  • Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
  • Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory
  • Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server
  • Use roles and permissions to enable users to access objects in the vCenter Server inventory
  • Back up vCenter Server Appliance
  • Monitor vCenter Server tasks, events, and appliance health
  • Use VMware vCenter Server©_ High Availability to protect a vCenter Server Appliance

Module 5: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

  • Create and manage standard switches
  • Describe the virtual switch connection types
  • Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping, and load-balancing policies
  • Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches

Module 6: Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

  • Identify storage protocols and storage device types
  • Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
  • Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores
  • Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
  • Recognize the components of a VMware vSAN configuration

Module 7: Virtual Machine Management

  • Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
  • Modify and manage virtual machines
  • Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library
  • Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine
  • Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
  • Describe the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility feature
  • Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
  • Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere©_ Replication
  • Describe the benefits of VMware vSphere©_ Storage APIs – Data Protection

Module 8: Resource Management and Monitoring

  • Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment
  • Describe what overcommitment of a resource means
  • Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
  • Use various tools to monitor resource use
  • Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events

Module 9: vSphere Clusters

  • Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
  • Create a vSphere DRS cluster
  • Monitor a vSphere cluster configuration
  • Describe options for making a vSphere environment highly available
  • Explain the vSphere HA architecture
  • Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
  • Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere©_ Fault Tolerance
  • Describe the function of the vSphere©_ Cluster Service

Module 10: vSphere Lifecycle Management

  • Recognize the importance of vCenter Server Update Planner
  • Describe how VMware vSphere©_ Lifecycle Manager works
  • Describe how to update ESXi hosts using baselines
  • Validate ESXi host compliance using a cluster image
  • Describe how to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware
  • Describe VMware vSphere©_ Lifecycle Manager and VMware vSAN integration

Lab Outline:

Labs are designed to assure learners a whole practical experience, through the following practical activities:

Lab 1: Accessing the Lab Environment

Lab 2: Configuring an ESXi Host

Lab 3: Creating a Virtual Machine

Lab 4: Installing VMware Tools

Lab 5: Adding Virtual Hardware

Lab 6: Adding vSphere Licenses

Lab 7: Creating and Managing the vCenter Server Inventory

Lab 8: Configuring Active Directory: Joining a Domain

Lab 9: Configuring Active Directory: Adding an Identity Source 

Lab 10: Users, Groups, and Permissions

Lab 11: Using Standard Switches

Lab 12: Accessing iSCSI Storage

Lab 13: Managing VMFS Datastores

Lab 14: Accessing NFS Storage

Lab 15: Using a vSAN Datastore

Lab 16: Using VM Templates: Creating Templates and Deploying VMs

Lab 17: Using Content Libraries

Lab 18: Modifying Virtual Machines

Lab 19: vSphere vMotion Migrations

Lab 20: vSphere Storage vMotion Migrations

Lab 21: Working with Snapshots

Lab 22: Controlling VM Resources

Lab 23: Monitoring Virtual Machine Performance

Lab 24: Using Alarms

Lab 25: Implementing vSphere DRS Clusters

Lab 26: Using vSphere HA

Lab 27: Using vSphere Lifecycle Manager