VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V8]

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By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Install and configure ESXi hosts
• Deploy and configure vCenter
• Use the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users
• Configure vCenter High Availability
• Create and configure virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches
• Create and configure datastores using storage technologies supported by vSphere
• Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
• Configure and manage a VMware Tools Repository
• Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines
• Manage virtual machine resource use
• Migrate virtual machines with vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion
• Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with vSphere High Availability and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
• Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date
• Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
• Use host profiles to manage VMware ESXi host compliance
• Monitor the vCenter, ESXi, and VMs performance in the vSphere client

Grupa docelowa

•  System administrators
•  System engineers

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. vSphere and Virtualization Overview
   • Explain basic virtualization concepts
   • Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
   • Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
   • Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs
   • Install an ESXi host
3. vCenter Management
   • Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter
   • Deploy vCenter Server Appliance
   • Configure vCenter settings
   • Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys
   • Create and organize vCenter inventory objects
   • Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions
   • View vSphere tasks and events
   • Create a vCenter backup schedule
   • Recognize the importance of vCenter High Availability
   • Explain how vCenter High Availability works
4. Configure and Manage vSphere Networking
   • Configure and view standard switch configurations
   • Configure and view distributed switch configurations
   • Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches
   • Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches
5. Configure and Manage vSphere Storage
   • Recognize vSphere storage technologies
   • Identify types of vSphere datastores
   • Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing
   • Describe iSCSI components and addressing
   • Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi
   • Create and manage VMFS datastores
   • Configure and manage NFS datastores
   • Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies
6. Deploying Virtual Machines
   • Create and provision VMs
   • Explain the importance of VMware Tools
   • Identify the files that make up a VM
   • Recognize the components of a VM
   • Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options
   • Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources
   • Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them
   • Clone VMs
   • Create customization specifications for guest operating systems
   • Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries
   • Deploy VMs from content libraries
   • Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries
7. Managing Virtual Machines
   • Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances
   • Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion
   • Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations
   • Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion
   • Take a snapshot of a VM
   • Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots
   • Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment
   • Describe how VMs compete for resources
   • Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits
   • Recognize the role of a VMware Tools Repository
   • Configure a VMware Tools Repository
   • Recognize the backup and restore solution for VMs
8. vSphere Cluster Management
   • Use Cluster Quickstart to enable vSphere cluster services and configure the cluster
   • View information about a vSphere cluster
   • Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster
   • Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings
   • Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster
   • Describe how vSphere HA responds to different types of failures
   • Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster
   • Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings
   • Configure a cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
   • Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance
   • Describe the function of the vCLS
   • Recognize operations that might disrupt the healthy functioning of vCLS VMs
9. Managing the vSphere Lifecycle
   • Generate vCenter interoperability reports
   • Recognize features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager
   • Describe ESXi images and image depots
   • Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
   • Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and remediate ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
   • Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations
   • Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware
10. Network Operations
    • Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
    • Describe how VMware vSphere Network I/O Control enhances performance
    • Define vSphere Distributed Services Engine
    • Describe the use cases and benefits of vSphere Distributed Services Engine
11. Storage Operations
    • Describe the architecture and requirements of vSAN configuration
    • Describe storage policy-based management
    • Recognize components in the vSphere Virtual Volumes architecture
    • Configure Storage I/O Control
12. ESXi Operations
    • Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
    • Recognize the benefits of using configuration profiles
13. vSphere Monitoring
    • Monitor the key factors that can affect a virtual machine’s performance
    • Describe the factors that influence vCenter performance
    • Use vCenter tools to monitor resource use
    • Create custom alarms in vCenter
    • Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
    • Recognize uses for Skyline Advisor Pro

Uwagi

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

CZAS TRWANIA: 40 HOURS (5 DAYS)

For more details, please contact us at osec@osec.pl