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VMware Vsphere - Install, Configure, Manage (V7.0)
Course Sector:
Information Technology
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Date
Days
Location
Fees
Enrollment
01
5 Days
Abu Dhabi, UAE $4,250
02
5 Days
London, UK $4,950
03
5 Days
Dubai, UAE $4,250
Introduction
Training course introducion / brief
This VMware vSphere foundation 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 VMware 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 and
aligns to the following products: ESXi 7, vCenter Server 7
Course Objectives
At the end of the training course, participants will be able to
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure
- Utilize VMware vSphere® Client™ to manage the vCenter Server inventory and the vCenter Server configuration
- Install and configure VMware ESXi™ hosts
- Deploy and configure VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™
- Manage, monitor, back up, and protect vCenter Server Appliance
- Create virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
- 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 and 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
- Utilize VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches and perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines
Course Audience
Who is this course for, and can benefit the most
- Cloud Computing Engineer
- Computer Network Specialist
- Computer Support Specialist
- Database Administrator
- Information Technology Analyst
- Information Technology Leadership
- Information Security Specialist
- Software/Application Developer
- Web Developer
- Technology sales consultant
Course Outline
The course aims and learning outcomes
INTRODUCTION TO VSPHERE AND THE SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATA CENTER
- Explain basic virtualization concepts
- 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
- Use VMware Host Client™ to access and manage ESXi host
- Create and remove a virtual machine
- Provision a virtual machine with virtual devices
- Identify the files that make up a virtual machine
- Explain the importance of VMware Tools™
VCENTER SERVER
- Describe the vCenter Server architecture
- Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
- Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
- Use the 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 objects in the vCenter Server inventory
- Back up vCenter Server Appliance
- Monitor vCenter Server tasks, events, and appliance health
- Use vCenter Server High Availability to protect a vCenter Server Appliance
CONFIGURING AND MANAGING VIRTUAL NETWORKS
- 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
- Deploy virtual machines on a VMware vSAN™ datastore
VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGEMENT
- Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
- Modify and manage virtual machines
- Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library
- Dynamically increase the size of a virtual disk
- Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine
- Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
- Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Replication™
- 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
VSPHERE CLUSTER
- 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
- Configure a vSphere cluster using ESXi Cluster Quickstart
- Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
- Create a vSphere DRS cluster
- Describe how VMWARE vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works
- Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to update ESXi hosts in a cluster
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