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VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [v8.0]

Overview
Curriculum
  • 10 Sections
  • 61 Lessons
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Course Introduction
2 Lessons
  1. Introductions and course logistics
  2. Course objectives
Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center
4 Lessons
  1. Explain basic virtualization concepts
  2. Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
  3. Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
  4. Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs
Installing and Configuring ESXi
3 Lessons
  1. Install an ESXi host
  2. Recognize ESXi user account best practices
  3. Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client
Deploying and Configuring vCenter
7 Lessons
  1. Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter
  2. Deploy vCenter Server Appliance
  3. Configure vCenter settings
  4. Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys
  5. Create and organize vCenter inventory objects
  6. Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions
  7. View vCenter logs and events
Configuring vSphere Networking
4 Lessons
  1. Configure and view standard switch configurations
  2. Configure and view distributed switch configurations
  3. Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches
  4. Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches
Configuring vSphere Storage
7 Lessons
  1. Recognize vSphere storage technologies
  2. Identify types of vSphere datastores
  3. Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing
  4. Describe iSCSI components and addressing
  5. Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi
  6. Create and manage VMFS datastores
  7. Configure and manage NFS datastores
Deploying Virtual Machines
10 Lessons
  1. Create and provision VMs
  2. Explain the importance of VMware Tools
  3. Identify the files that make up a VM
  4. Recognize the components of a VM
  5. Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options
  6. Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them
  7. Create customization specifications for guest operating systems
  8. Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries
  9. Deploy VMs from content libraries
  10. Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries
Managing Virtual Machines
7 Lessons
  1. Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances
  2. Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion
  3. Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations
  4. Take a snapshot of a VM
  5. Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment
  6. Describe how VMs compete for resources
  7. Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits
Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters
10 Lessons
  1. Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
  2. View information about a vSphere cluster
  3. Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster
  4. Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings
  5. Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster
  6. Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures
  7. Recognize vSphere HA design considerations
  8. Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings
  9. Configure a vSphere HA cluster
  10. Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance
Managing the vSphere Lifecycle
7 Lessons
  1. Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
  2. Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner
  3. Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images
  4. Describe ESXi images
  5. Update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
  6. Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations
  7. Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware

Overview

Our Epic LIVE online instructor delivered class, in conjunction with Tech Data (a VMware Authorized Training Center) runs for 8 hours a day, Monday-Friday, for 1 week.

This course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 8, which includes VMware ESXi™ 7 and VMware vCenter Server® 8. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size.

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