About This Course

 

This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size and forms the foundation for most other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.

 

What you'll learn

 

1. Course Introduction

   • Introductions and course logistics

   • Course objectives

   • References and resources

2. Software-Defined Data Center

   • Introduce components of the software-defined data center

   • Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture

   • Install and use vSphere Client

   • Overview of ESXi

3. Creating Virtual Machines

   • Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files

   • Create and work with virtual machines and templates

4. vCenter Server

   • Introduce the vCenter Server architecture

   • Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance

   • Use vSphere Web Client

   • Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses

5. Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

   • Describe, create, and manage standard switches

   • Configure virtual switch security and load-balancing policies

   • Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches, network connections, and port groups

6. Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

   • Introduce storage protocols and storage device types

   • Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI and NFS storage

   • Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores

   • Introduce VMware Virtual SAN™

   • Introduce Virtual Volumes

7. Virtual Machine Management

   • Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines

   • Modify and manage virtual machines

   • Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations

   • Create and manage virtual machine snapshots

   • Create vApps

   • Introduce the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them

8. Resource Management and Monitoring

   • Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts

   • Configure and manage resource pools

   • Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage

   • Use various tools to monitor resource usage

   • Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events

   • Identify and troubleshoot virtual machine resource issues

   • Introduce vRealize Operations Manager for data center monitoring and management

9. vSphere HA and vSphere Fault Tolerance

   • Explain the vSphere HA architecture

   • Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster

   • Use vSphere HA advanced parameters

   • Introduce vSphere Fault Tolerance

   • Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines

   • Introduce vSphere Replication

   • Use vSphere Data Protection to back up and restore data

10. Host Scalability

    • Describe the functions and benefits of a vSphere DRS cluster

    • Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster

    • Work with affinity and anti-affinity rules

    • Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together for business continuity

11. vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance

    • Use vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi patching

    • Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in

    • Create patch baselines

    • Use host profiles to manage host configuration compliance

    • Scan and remediate hosts

12. Installing vSphere Components

    • Install ESXi

    • Introduce vCenter Server deployment options

    • Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements

    • Discuss installation of vCenter Server Appliance and a vCenter Server instance

    • Demonstrate vCenter Server installation