Course Overview
This intensive, extended-hours course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere® management skills. Building on the installation and configuration content from our best-selling course, you will also develop advanced skills needed to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you will install, configure, and optimize vSphere 6.5. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure, and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size using vSphere 6.5, which includes VMware ESXi™ 6.5 and VMware vCenter Server® 6.5.
Who should attend
- System administrators
- System engineers
Prerequisites
This course requires the following prerequisites:
- System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe the software-defined data center
- Deploy an ESXi host and create virtual machines
- Describe the vCenter Server architecture
- Deploy VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™
- Back up and restore vCenter Server
- Deploy vCenter Server Appliance to be highly available
- Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host
- Configure and manage the vSphere infrastructure with VMware vSphere® Client™ and VMware vSphere® Web Client
- Configure virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
- Use vSphere distributed switches to improve network scalability
- Use vCenter Server to manage various types of storage
- Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
- Perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server
- Create a vApp
- Describe and use the content library
- Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion®
- Use VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® to migrate virtual machine storage
- Monitor resource usage and manage resource pools
- Manage VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
- Use VMware vSphere® Replication™ and VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ to replicate virtual machines and perform data recovery
- Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters to improve host scalability
- Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches and perform upgrades
- Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
- Configure and use virtual machine storage policies
- Configure VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control
- Configure VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™
- Encrypt virtual machines for additional security
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center
- Creating Virtual Machines
- vCenter Server
- Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
- Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
- Virtual Machine Management
- Resource Management and Monitoring
- vSphere HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance, and Protecting Data
- vSphere DRS
- vSphere Update Manager
- Network Scalability
- Storage Scalability