Course Overview
TOPThis 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
TOP| 04/20/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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What You'll Learn
TOPDescribe the software-defined data center (SDDC)
- 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
- Discuss solutions for managing the vSphere life cycle
- Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure
- 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
TOPRecognize the importance of vCenter Server Update Planner.
- Describe how to update ESXi hosts using baselines.
- Validate ESXi host compliance using a cluster image.
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Explain basic virtualization concepts.
- Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and 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) to configure an ESXi host.
- Recognize ESXi host user account best practices.
- Install an ESXi host.
- Create and provision a virtual machine.
- Identify the files that make up a virtual machine.
- Recognize the components of a virtual machine.
- Recognize virtual devices supported by a virtual machine.
- Describe the benefits and use cases for containers.
- Identify the parts of a container system.
- Describe the vCenter Server architecture.
- Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server.
- Deploy and configure the vCenter Server Appliance.
- Use the vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory.
- Add data centers, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server.
- Use roles and permissions to enable users to access objects in the vCenter Server inventory.
- Back up the vCenter Server Appliance.
- Monitor vCenter Server tasks, events, and appliance health.
- 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.
- 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.
- Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine.
- Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations.
- Describe the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility feature.
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots.
- 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 usage.
- 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.
Prerequisites
TOPSystem administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
- This course has the following prerequisites:
Who Should Attend
TOPSystem administrators
- System engineers
