Course Overview
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage is our best-selling course. It features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 6, which includes VMware ESXi™ 6 and VMware vCenter Server™ 6. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size and forms the foundation for most other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.
This course meets the prerequisite for advanced vSphere courses.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following
objectives:
- Describe the software-defined data center
- Deploy an ESXi host and create virtual machines
- Describe vCenter Server architecture
- Deploy a vCenter Server instance or VMware vCenter Server™ Appliance™
- Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host
- Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware vSphere®
- Client™ and VMware vSphere® Web Client
- Configure virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
- Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage: VMware vSphere® VMFS, NFS, virtual SAN, and Virtual Volumes
- Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
- Create a vApp
- Describe and use the content library
- Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion®
- Use VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® to migrate virtual machine storage
- Monitor resource usage and manage resource pools
- Use VMware vRealize™ Operations Manager™ to identify and solve issues through analytics and alerts
- Manage VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
- Use VMware vSphere® Replication™ and VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ to replicate virtual machines and perform data recovery
- Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters to improve host scalability
- Use vSphere distributed switches to improve network scalability
- Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches and perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations.
Prerequisites
- System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.
- Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course forVCA-DCV certification.
Course Modules
1 Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
References and resources
2 Software-Defined Data Center
Introduce components of the software-defined data center
Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
Install and use vSphere Client
Overview of ESXi
3 Creating Virtual Machines
Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and
virtual machine files
Create and work with virtual machines and templates
4 vCenter Server
Introduce the vCenter Server architecture
Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
Use vSphere Web Client
Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
5 Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
Describe, create, and manage standard switches
Configure virtual switch security and load-balancing policies
Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches,
network connections, and port groups
6 Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
Introduce storage protocols and storage device types
Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI and NFS storage
Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores
Introduce VMware Virtual SAN™
Introduce Virtual Volumes
7 Virtual Machine Management
- Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
- Modify and manage virtual machines
- Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion
migrations
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
- Create vApps
- Introduce the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them
8 Resource Management and Monitoring
Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
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
Identify and troubleshoot virtual machine resource issues
Introduce vRealize Operations Manager for data center
monitoring and management
9 vSphere HA and vSphere Fault Tolerance
Explain the vSphere HA architecture
Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
Use vSphere HA advanced parameters
Introduce vSphere Fault Tolerance
Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines
Introduce vSphere Replication
Use vSphere Data Protection to back up and restore data
10 Host Scalability
- Describe the functions and benefits of a vSphere DRS cluster
- Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster
- Work with affinity and anti-affinity rules
- Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together for business
- continuity
11 vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance
- Use vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi patching
- Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update
- Manager plug-in
- Create patch baselines
- Use host profiles to manage host configuration compliance
- Scan and remediate hosts
12 Installing vSphere Components
Install ESXi
Introduce vCenter Server deployment options
Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database
requirements
Discuss installation of vCenter Server Appliance and a vCenter
Server instance
Demonstrate vCenter Server installation
