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VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]

SS Course: 58999

Course Overview

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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.                                                                  

Scheduled Classes

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09/09/24 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led (click to enroll)
09/16/24 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led (click to enroll)
10/07/24 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led (click to enroll)
10/21/24 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led (click to enroll)
11/11/24 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led (click to enroll)
12/09/24 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led (click to enroll)
12/16/24 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led (click to enroll)

What You'll Learn

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Describe the software-defined data center (SDDC)
  • 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 Lifecycle Manager to perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines
  • Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure
  • Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline Install and configure 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
  • By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

Outline

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Recognize the importance of vCenter Server
  • Update Planner
  • Describe how VMware vSphere Lifecycle
  • Manager works
  • Describe how to update ESXi hosts using baselines
  • Validate ESXi host compliance using a cluster image
  • Describe how to upgrade VMware Tools and VM
  • hardware
  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives
  • Explain basic virtualization concepts
  • to configure an ESXi host
  • Recognize ESXi host user account best practices
  • Install an ESXi host
  • Use VMware Host Client to configure ESXi host
  • settings
  • 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
  • Describe the ESXi host architecture
  • Navigate the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)
  • Create and provision a virtual machine
  • Explain the importance of VMware Tools
  • Install VMware Tools
  • Identify the files that make up a VM
  • Recognize the components of a VM
  • Recognize virtual devices supported by a VM
  • Describe the benefits and use cases for containers
  • Identify the parts of a container system
  • Describe the vCenter Server architecture
  • objects in the vCenter Server inventory
  • Back up vCenter Server Appliance
  • Monitor vCenter Server tasks, events, and appliance
  • health
  • Use VMware vCenter Server High Availability to
  • protect a vCenter Server Appliance
  • Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter
  • Server
  • Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
  • Use 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Recognize the components of a VMware vSAN
  • configuration
  • Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual
  • Describe the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
  • feature
  • Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
  • Examine the features and functions of VMware
  • vSphere Replication
  • Describe the benefits of VMware vSphere Storage
  • APIs Data Protection
  • machines
  • Modify and manage virtual machines
  • Create a content library and deploy virtual machines
  • from templates in the library
  • Use customization specification files to customize a
  • new virtual machine
  • Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage
  • vMotion migrations
  • 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
  • Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
  • Create a vSphere DRS cluster
  • Monitor a vSphere cluster configuration
  • 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

Prerequisites

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

    Who Should Attend

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    System administrators
    • System engineers

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