VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7]

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introduction, logistics, objectives, and content
• VMware education benefits
• Additional resources

Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center /h2>

• vSphere in the software-defined data center
• vSphere Interaction: CPUs, Memory, Network, Storage
• Access and manage vCenter Server system and ESXi host
• Virtual network adapters, VMXNET3, Virtual disk provisioning types
• ESXi host settings installation and configuration
• ESXi Quick Boot advantages

Module 3: Creating Virtual Machines

• Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine
• VMware Tools™ significance Import virtual appliance OVF template

Module 4: vCenter Server

• vCenter Server architecture
• ESXi hosts communication with vCenter Server
• Access and configure vCenter Server Appliance
• Manage the vCenter Server inventory
• Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server
• Create custom inventory tags, custom role, vCenter Server Appliance backup schedule
• Rules for applying for permissions
• Monitoring and restorage of vCenter Server Appliance

Module 5: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

• Standard switches: configuration and management
• Configure virtual switch security
• vSphere distributed and standard switches
• Virtual switch connection types
• TCP/IP stack architecture
• Use of VLANs with standard switches

Module 6: Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

• Storage protocols and device types
• Use of iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• VMware vSphere® VMFS and NFS datastores
• Multipathing works
• Advantages of VMware vSAN™

Module 7: Virtual Machine Management

• Deploy, modify, customize, and, manage new virtual machines
• Modify and manage virtual machines
• Instant cloning of a virtual machine
• Content libraries types and deployment
• Migration of vSphere vMotion and Storage
• Virtual machine snapshots

Module 8: Resource Management and Monitoring

• CPU and memory concepts
• Resource overcommitment of a resource means
• Resource pools management and configuration
• CPU optimization and memory usage
• Creation and use of alarms

Module 9: vSphere HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance, and Protecting Data

• vSphere HA architecture, configuration, and, management
• Use vSphere HA advanced parameters
• Infrastructural or intra-app dependencies
• vSphere Fault Tolerance, features, support, interoperability, and functions
• vSphere Replication features and functions

Module 10: vSphere DRS

• vSphere DRS cluster creation and functions
• Configuration of
• Virtual machine affinity
• DRS groups
• VM-host affinity rules
• Removal of the host from a vSphere DRS cluster

Module 11: vSphere Update Manager

• Architecture, Components, and Capabilities
• ESXi, virtual machines, and vApps patching
• vSphere Update Manager EAM integration features and functions
• Integration of vSphere Update Manager with vSphere DRS

Module 12: vSphere Troubleshooting

• Diagnosis, Application, review, and enhancement of troubleshooting efficiency
• Log files and use of vSphere Syslog Collector