Information Technology (IT)

vSphere ICM v6.5 for the Real World

Beginner
15h

By: Russ Long

Overview

This online training course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 6.5, which includes VMware ESXi™ 6.5 and VMware vCenter Server® 6.5. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. It is the foundation for most other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.

Modules

1. Introduction to Virtualization

1.1 Virtualization Introduction10 min
1.2 Vsphere Software and Interfaces10 min
1.3 Licensing Options of VMware Products17 min
1.4 Vmware 6.0 to 6.5 Updated Features9 min

2. ESXi Installation

2.1 ESXi Installation and Configuring the Host17 min
2.2 Looking at the Host Client in vSphere5 min
2.3 Post Installation Steps for vCenter Server Appliance11 min

3. vCenter Server and vCenter Server Appliance Installation

3.1 Port ESXi Installation Checks23 min
3.2 Installing and Managing a VM Environment14 min
3.3 Installation of the vCenter Server Appliance12 min

4. Virtual Machines

4.1 Virtual Machine Overview21 min
4.2 Navigating and Customizing the vSphere Web Client25 min
4.3 Content Libraries in vSphere 6.511 min
4.4 vApp in vSphere 6.513 min
4.5 Vmware Solutions Manager7 min
4.6 Snapshots in VMware12 min
4.7 Shares, Limits and Reservations in VM's10 min
4.8 Installing and Configuring Vmware Tools12 min
4.9 vMotion Basics12 min
4.10 vMotion Demonstrations and Configurations14 min
4.11 Direct Path IO and Single Root Input Output Virtualization16 min

5. Networking

5.1 Networking Basics12 min
5.2 Virtual Networking and Virtual Switches11 min
5.3 Distributed vSwitches11 min
5.4 VMKernel Groups and Settings21 min
5.5 Security Configurations in vSwitches8 min
5.6 Load Balancing Algorithms20 min
5.7 Networking Policies17 min
5.8 Monitoring Vmware 13 min
5.9 Traffic Shaping 8 min
5.10 Understand and Enabling RDMA6 min
5.11 Stateless Deployments and IPv6 Best Practices16 min

6. Storage

6.1 Basics of Data Storage16 min
6.2 SAN Implementations38 min
6.3 Flash Data Storage in Vmware11 min
6.4 Datastores, Storage Abstraction of Options13 min
6.5 Raw Disk Mapping15 min
6.6 IO Filtering16 min
6.7 Vmkfstools4 min
6.8 Storage Policies10 min

7. Security

7.1 Security in Vmware23 min
7.2 Security by Component: Hosts27 min
7.3 Networking Configuration in Regards to VM's20 min

8. Resource Allocation

8.1 Resource Allocation in VM's15 min
8.2 VM to Hardware Analogs26 min
8.3 Memory Technologies for VM's10 min
8.4 Storage Policies for Virtual Machines17 min
8.5 VM Clustering23 min
8.6 Advanced Features of DRS32 min

9. Host Profiles

9.1 Host Profiles in Vmware12 min
9.2 Extracting and Attaching a Host Profile29 min

10. Business Continuity

10.1 Business Continuity in vSphere 6.517 min
10.2 VMware in an HA Environment25 min
10.3 Configuring High Availability15 min
10.4 Fault Tolerance Overview for vSphere9 min
10.5 vSphere Web Client Settings to Check Before Enabling Fault Tolerance6 min

11. Upgrade Process

11.1 Upgrading ESXi and vCenter Server 8 min
11.2 vCenter Server Appliance8 min
11.3 ESXi Manual Upgrade9 min
11.4 Using Update Manager as a Vmware Administrator22 min

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