This course provides intensive hands-on training focused on installing, configuring and managing VMware vSphere® 6 (including VMware ESXi™ 6 and VMware vCenter Server™ 6). It will provide a solid understanding of how to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organisation of any size.
Who's it for?
This course is intended for system administrators/engineers installing, configuring and managing VMware vSphere.
Key objectives
After attending this course a delegate will be able to:
- explain the software-defined data centre
- implement 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
- 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
- apply VMware vRealize™ Operations Manager™ to identify and solve issues through analytics and alerts
- manage VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
- utilise 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
- apply vSphere distributed switches to improve network scalability
- operate VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches
- perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines and vCenter Server operations.
Prerequisites
Attendees should have:
- system admin experience of Microsoft Windows or Linux OS
- an understanding of the concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course for the VCA-DCV certification.
What's covered?
Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Software-defined data centre
- Introduce components of the software-defined data centre
- Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
- Install and use vSphere Client
- Overview of ESXi
Creating virtual machines
- Introduce virtual machines (VM), VM hardware and VM files
- Create and work with VM
vCenter Server
- Introduce the vCenter Server architecture
- Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
- Install and use vSphere Web Client
- Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
- Explain the benefits of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
Configuring and managing virtual networks
- Describe, create, and manage standard switches
- Describe and modify standard switch properties
- Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms
- Create, configure and manage vSphere distributed switches, network connections and port groups
Configuring and managing virtual storage
- Introduce storage protocols and storage device names
- Discuss ESXi with iSCSI, NFS and fibre channel storage
- Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores
- Introduce VMware Virtual SAN™
Virtual machine management
- Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
- Modify and manage virtual machines
- Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
- Create a vApp
- Introduce the various types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them
Resource management and monitoring
- Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
- Configure and manage resource pools
- Describe methods for optimising CPU and memory usage
- Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage
- Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events
- Introduce vRealize Operations Manager for data centre monitoring and management
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 vm
- Introduce vSphere Replication
- Use vSphere Data Protection to back up and restore data
Host scalability
- Describe the functions 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
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 ESXi configuration compliance
- Scan and remediate hosts
Installing VMware components
- Introduce ESXi installation
- Describe boot-from-SAN requirements
- Introduce vCenter Server deployment options
- Describe vCenter Server hardware, software and database requirements
- Discuss installation of vCenter Server Appliance and a vCenter Server instance
Next step
To obtain course venues/dates and pricing please email your account manager, submit the enquiry form below or call us on 0845 647 0000*.
