Overview

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.

Course Instructor: Russ Long

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

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