VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V7]

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This five-day, intensive course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere® 7 management skills. Building on the installation and configuration content from our best-selling course, you will also develop advanced skills needed to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you will install, configure and manage vSphere 7. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size using vSphere 7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 7 and VMware vCenter Server® 7.

Product Alignment
•  ESXi 7
•  vCenter Server 7

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By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following 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 and manage resource pools
• 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™
• Create virtual networks with VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™ and enable distributed switch features
• Discuss solutions for managing the vSphere life cycle
• Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to apply patches and perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines
• Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
• Describe how vSphere storage APIs help storage systems integrate with vSphere
• Configure and use virtual machine storage policies
• Discuss the purpose and capabilities of VMware vSphere® with Kubernetes and how it fits into the VMware Tanzu™ portfolio

Grupa docelowa:

•  System administrators
•  System engineers

Uwagi:

Szkolenie realizowane jest przy współpracy z naszym Partnerem - firmą szkoleniową Arrow ECS Sp. z o.o.,

Czas trwania: 5 Dni

Wymagania:

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

Konspekt

1. Course Introduction
   • Introductions and course logistics
   • Course objectives
   
   
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
   • Use VMware Host Client™ to access and manage ESXi host
   
   
3. Virtual Machines
   • Create and remove a virtual machine
   • Provision a virtual machine with virtual devices
   • Identify the files that make up a virtual machine
   • Explain the importance of VMware Tools™
   
   
4. vCenter Server
   • Describe the vCenter Server architecture
   • Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
   • Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
   • Use the 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 vCenter Server High Availability to protect a vCenter Server Appliance
   
   
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
   
   
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
   • Deploy virtual machines on a VMware vSAN™ datastore
   
   
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
   • 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
   • Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Replication™
   
   
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
   
   
9. vSphere Clusters
   • 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
   • Configure a vSphere cluster using ESXi Cluster Quickstart
   • Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
   • Create a vSphere DRS cluster
   
   
10. Network Scalability
    • Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
    • Describe how VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control enhances performance
    • Explain distributed switch features such as port mirroring and NetFlow
    
    
11. vSphere Lifecycle Management
    • Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works
    • Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to update ESXi hosts in a cluster
    
    
12. Host and Management Scalability
    • Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
    • Create and manage resource pools in a cluster
    
    
13. Storage Scalability
    • Explain why VMware vSphere® VMFS is a high-performance, scalable file system
    • Explain VMware vSphere® Storage APIs - Array Integration, VMware vSphere® API for Storage Awareness™, and vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering
    • Configure and assign virtual machine storage policies
    • Create VMware vSAN™ storage policies
    • Configure VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ and VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control
    • Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER
    
    
14. Introduction to vSphere with Kubernetes
    • Differentiate between containers and virtual machines
    • Identify the parts of a container system
    • Recognize the basic architecture of Kubernetes
    • Describe a basic Kubernetes workflow
    • Describe the purpose of vSphere with Kubernetes and how it fits into the VMware Tanzu portfolio
    • Explain the vSphere with Kubernetes supervisor cluster
    • Describe the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service