VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V7]

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.

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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.

Objectives

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

 

Audience

• System administrators

• System engineers

 

Prerequisites

This course has the following prerequisites:

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

 

Programme

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

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Kurslängd

5 dagar

Lärarledd

Ja

Språk

Engelskt tal, material på engelska

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