VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]

Opis

This five-day course 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.

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
• 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

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 Cluster
   •  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. vSphere Lifecycle
    •  Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works
    •  Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to update ESXi hosts in a cluster