Overview
Course Instructor: Russ Long
Course Outline
01. Introduction to Virtualization
- Intro to Virtualization
- Intro to VMware’s virtualization solutions
- Licensing
02. Installation of ESXi
- Installation
- DCUI configuration
- Host Client
03. vCenter Server Installation and Configuration
- vCenter Server Installation
- vCenter Server Management interface
- Backing up vCenter Server
- vCenter Server Administration tour
04. Virtual Machines
- Virtual Machine Introduction
- Virtual Machine Deployment
- Key Options of the VM
- VM Configuration Options
- Using Content Libraries
- Solutions Manager configurations
- Snapshot Management
- Using Limits, Shares, and Reservations
- Migrating Virtual Machines
- Installing VM Tools
- SR-IOV basics
05. Networking
- Networking Basics
- Understanding Portgroups
- Creating and Managing Distributed Switches
- Port Group Options
- Using Network Policies
- Traffic Filtering and Marking
- Monitoring Networking
- Paravirtualization and IPv6 deployment
06. Storage
- Storage Introduction
- Connecting to Storage
- Fibre Channel over Ethernet
- iSCSI
- NFS
- Intro to VMFS Datastores
07. Security
- Securing vSphere
- Using Single Sign On
- Applying certificates
- Using Permissions
- Hardening your vSphere environment
08. Resource Allocation
- Resource management
- Resource pools
- Understanding DRS
- Deploying a DRS cluster
- Understanding Distributed Power Management
- Storage DRS
09. Host Profiles
- An overview of Host Profiles
- Working with Host Profiles
10. Business Continuity
- Introduction to Business Continuity Solutions in VMware
- Using High Availability
- Troubleshooting HA
- Fault Tolerance explained
11. Upgrade Process
- Upgrading vCenter Server
- Upgrading a Host
- Introduction to the lifecycle manager interface
Skills Learned
After completing this online training course, students will be able to:
- Describe the software-defined data center (SDDC)
- Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure
- Install and configure VMware ESXi hosts
- Deploy and configure VMware vCenter Server Appliance
- Use VMware vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory and the vCenter Server configuration
- Manage, monitor, back up, and protect vCenter Server Appliance
- Create virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
- Describe the storage technologies supported by vSphere
- Configure virtual storage using iSCSI and NFS storage
- Create and manage VMware vSphere VMFS datastores
- Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
- Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library
- Manage virtual machine resource use
- Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion
- Create and manage a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere High Availability
- Use the VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
- Discuss solutions for managing the vSphere life cycle
- Use VMware vSphere Update Manager to apply patches and perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines