Our Epic LIVE online instructor delivered class features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 6.7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 6.7 and VMware vCenter Server® 6.7. 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.
Overview
Skills Learned
After completing this online training course, students will be able to:
Describe the software-defined data center
Deploy an ESXi host
Deploy VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™
Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host
Describe virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion®
Monitor resource usage and manage resource pools
Identify and solve performance issues
Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware vSphere® Client™ and VMware vSphere® Web Client
Configure standard switch policies
- System administrators
- Systems engineers
- Operators responsible for ESXi and vCenter Server
None. System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems is highly recommended.
01. Introduction to virtualization
- Basics
- Topology
- Software
- Interfaces
- Inventory Objects
- Server Plugins
- Advantages/ Disadvantages
- Overview of Features
- Licensing
- What’s New
02. ESXi Installation
- Requirements
- Preparation
- ESXi Set up
- Post installation
- vCenter Server and vCenter Server Appliance Installation
- Server vs. Appliance
- Embedded vs. External
- Server
- Appliance
- Appliance Migration Tool
03. Virtual Machines
- Basics of Virtual Machines
- Deployment
- Templates
- Content Libraries
- Hardware
- Options
- NVMe
- vSphere App
- Solutions Manager
- Management
- VMware tools
- VM Migration
04. Networking
- Networking basics
- vSwitches
- VMKernel Groups
- Port Groups
- Security polices
- Load Balancing and Failover
- Backing up Network Configurations
- Network Policies
- RDMA
- Best Practices
05. Storage
- Storage basics
- ESXi SAN implementations
- ESXi Fibre Channel
- ESXi iSCSi
- ESXi NFS
- Flash Devices
- Multipathing and Failover
- Datastores
- Raw device Mapping
- Virtual Volumes
- I/O filtering
- Hardware Accleration
- Thick and Thin
- Vmkfstools
- Storage providers
- Storage Polices
06. Security
- Basic Security
- SSO
- Certificates
- Permissions
- Hardening (best practices)
- Boot Secure
- Enhanced logging
- Encrypted vMotion
07. Resource Allocation
- Basics of Resource Allocation
- Settings
- CPU
- Memory
- Storage
- Clustering
- Attributes
- Fault Definitions
08. Host Profiles
- Create
- Attach
- Detach
- Compliance
- Remediation
- Profile Management
- DRS integration, parallel host remediation, audit quality improvements
- Business Continuity
- HA Clusters
- Fault Tolerance
09. Monitoring and Performance
- Charts
- Web Client
- Guest OS
- Host Health
- Events, Alarms, Automation
- vCenter Solutions
- Health of Nodes and Services
- SNMP
- Syslog
10. Upgrade Process
- Introduction to the upgrade process
- Requirements
- Prerequisites
- vCenter Server
- vCenter Server Appliance
- vCenter Server to Appliance Migration
- Hosts
- VMs
- Datastores
- Update Manager
11. Troubleshooting
- Overview
- VMs
- Hosts
- vCenter Server
- Availability
- Resources
- Storage
- Networking
12. Virtual VSAN
- Introduction
- Requirements for vsan
- Design and sizing
- Preparation
- Creation vsan cluster
- Stretching across datastores
- Policies
- Monitoring
- Failures and troubleshooting
- ISCSi Support
SKILLS LEARNED
Skills Learned
After completing this online training course, students will be able to:
Describe the software-defined data center
Deploy an ESXi host
Deploy VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™
Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host
Describe virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion®
Monitor resource usage and manage resource pools
Identify and solve performance issues
Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware vSphere® Client™ and VMware vSphere® Web Client
Configure standard switch policies
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- System administrators
- Systems engineers
- Operators responsible for ESXi and vCenter Server
PREREQUISITES
None. System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems is highly recommended.
COURSE OUTLINE
01. Introduction to virtualization
- Basics
- Topology
- Software
- Interfaces
- Inventory Objects
- Server Plugins
- Advantages/ Disadvantages
- Overview of Features
- Licensing
- What’s New
02. ESXi Installation
- Requirements
- Preparation
- ESXi Set up
- Post installation
- vCenter Server and vCenter Server Appliance Installation
- Server vs. Appliance
- Embedded vs. External
- Server
- Appliance
- Appliance Migration Tool
03. Virtual Machines
- Basics of Virtual Machines
- Deployment
- Templates
- Content Libraries
- Hardware
- Options
- NVMe
- vSphere App
- Solutions Manager
- Management
- VMware tools
- VM Migration
04. Networking
- Networking basics
- vSwitches
- VMKernel Groups
- Port Groups
- Security polices
- Load Balancing and Failover
- Backing up Network Configurations
- Network Policies
- RDMA
- Best Practices
05. Storage
- Storage basics
- ESXi SAN implementations
- ESXi Fibre Channel
- ESXi iSCSi
- ESXi NFS
- Flash Devices
- Multipathing and Failover
- Datastores
- Raw device Mapping
- Virtual Volumes
- I/O filtering
- Hardware Accleration
- Thick and Thin
- Vmkfstools
- Storage providers
- Storage Polices
06. Security
- Basic Security
- SSO
- Certificates
- Permissions
- Hardening (best practices)
- Boot Secure
- Enhanced logging
- Encrypted vMotion
07. Resource Allocation
- Basics of Resource Allocation
- Settings
- CPU
- Memory
- Storage
- Clustering
- Attributes
- Fault Definitions
08. Host Profiles
- Create
- Attach
- Detach
- Compliance
- Remediation
- Profile Management
- DRS integration, parallel host remediation, audit quality improvements
- Business Continuity
- HA Clusters
- Fault Tolerance
09. Monitoring and Performance
- Charts
- Web Client
- Guest OS
- Host Health
- Events, Alarms, Automation
- vCenter Solutions
- Health of Nodes and Services
- SNMP
- Syslog
10. Upgrade Process
- Introduction to the upgrade process
- Requirements
- Prerequisites
- vCenter Server
- vCenter Server Appliance
- vCenter Server to Appliance Migration
- Hosts
- VMs
- Datastores
- Update Manager
11. Troubleshooting
- Overview
- VMs
- Hosts
- vCenter Server
- Availability
- Resources
- Storage
- Networking
12. Virtual VSAN
- Introduction
- Requirements for vsan
- Design and sizing
- Preparation
- Creation vsan cluster
- Stretching across datastores
- Policies
- Monitoring
- Failures and troubleshooting
- ISCSi Support
