Course Overview
TOPThis five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 7, which includes VMware ESXi 7 and VMware vCenter Server 7. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. This course is the foundation for most of the other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.
Scheduled Classes
TOP| 12/09/24 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 12/16/24 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 01/06/25 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 03/03/25 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 03/10/25 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 04/21/25 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 04/28/25 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 06/02/25 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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What You'll Learn
TOPDescribe the software-defined data center (SDDC)
- 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 and VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
- Discuss solutions for managing the vSphere life cycle
- Use VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager to perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines
- Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure
- Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline Install and configure 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
- By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Outline
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Recognize the importance of vCenter Server
- Update Planner
- Describe how VMware vSphere Lifecycle
- Manager works
- Describe how to update ESXi hosts using baselines
- Validate ESXi host compliance using a cluster image
- Describe how to upgrade VMware Tools and VM
- hardware
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Explain basic virtualization concepts
- to configure an ESXi host
- Recognize ESXi host user account best practices
- Install an ESXi host
- Use VMware Host Client to configure ESXi host
- settings
- Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined
- data center and the cloud infrastructure
- Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory,
- networks, and storage
- Recognize the user interfaces for accessing the
- vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts
- Describe the ESXi host architecture
- Navigate the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)
- Create and provision a virtual machine
- Explain the importance of VMware Tools
- Install VMware Tools
- Identify the files that make up a VM
- Recognize the components of a VM
- Recognize virtual devices supported by a VM
- Describe the benefits and use cases for containers
- Identify the parts of a container system
- Describe the vCenter Server architecture
- objects in the vCenter Server inventory
- Back up vCenter Server Appliance
- Monitor vCenter Server tasks, events, and appliance
- health
- Use VMware vCenter Server High Availability to
- protect a vCenter Server Appliance
- Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter
- Server
- Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
- Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server
- inventory
- Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts
- to vCenter Server
- Use roles and permissions to enable users to access
- Create and manage standard switches
- Describe the virtual switch connection types
- Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping,
- and load-balancing policies
- Compare vSphere distributed switches and
- standard switches
- Identify storage protocols and storage device types
- Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre
- Channel storage
- Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores
- Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS,
- and Fibre Channel storage
- Recognize the components of a VMware vSAN
- configuration
- Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual
- Describe the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
- feature
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
- Examine the features and functions of VMware
- vSphere Replication
- Describe the benefits of VMware vSphere Storage
- APIs Data Protection
- machines
- Modify and manage virtual machines
- Create a content library and deploy virtual machines
- from templates in the library
- Use customization specification files to customize a
- new virtual machine
- Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage
- vMotion migrations
- Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized
- environment
- Describe what overcommitment of a resource
- means
- Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory
- usage
- Use various tools to monitor resource use
- Create and use alarms to report certain conditions
- or events
- Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
- Create a vSphere DRS cluster
- Monitor a vSphere cluster configuration
- Describe options for making a vSphere environment
- highly available
- Explain the vSphere HA architecture
- Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
- Examine the features and functions of VMware
- vSphere Fault Tolerance
Prerequisites
TOPSystem administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
- This course has the following prerequisites:
Who Should Attend
TOPSystem administrators
- System engineers
