VMware vSphere 7: Install, Configure, Manage [Most Wanted]

Course objectives:

• Describe the software-defined data center (SDDC)
• Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure
• Install and configure VMware 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® Update Manager™ to apply patches and perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines

1 Course Introduction

•    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

2 Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center
•    Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined 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 
•    Identify the advantages 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 appliance OVF template 
•    Manage VMware Tools 
•    Explain troubleshooting OS installation and VMware Tools

4 vCenter Server
•     Describe the vCenter Server architecture 
•    Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server 
•    Identify the vCenter Server services, components, and modules 
•    Access and configure vCenter Server Appliance 
•    Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory 
•    Describe the rules for applying permissions 
•    Create a custom role in vCenter Server 
•    Create a backup schedule 
•    Restore vCenter Server Appliance from backup Monitor vCenter Server Appliance

5 Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
•     Describe, create, and manage standard switches 
•    Configure virtual switch security 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

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 VMware vSphere® VMFS andNFS datastores 
•    Describe the new features of VMFS 6.5 Identify the advantages of VMware vSAN™ 
•    Describe guest file encryption

7 Virtual Machine Management
•     Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines 
•    Modify and manage virtual machines 
•    Clone a virtual machine 
•    Upgrade virtual machine hardware to version 14 
•    Remove virtual machines from the vCenter Server inventory and datastore 
•    Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine 
•    Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations 
•    Create and manage virtual machine snapshots 
•    Create, clone, and export vApps 
•    Identify the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them

8 Resource Management and Monitoring
•     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

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 
•    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

10 vSphere DRS
•     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

11 vSphere Update Manager
•     Describe the new architecture, components, and capabilities of vSphere 
•    Update Manager Use vSphere 
•    Update Manager to manage the patching of ESXi, virtual machines, and vApps 
•    Install vSphere 
•    Update Manager and the vSphere 
•    Update Manager plug-in Create patch baselines 
•    Use host profiles to manage host configuration compliance 
•    Examine 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 Use a structured approach to solve configuration and operational problems Identify troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency

•    System administrators
•    System engineers

This course has the following prerequisites:
•    System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems