VSICM67 - VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7]

This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 6.7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 6.7 and VMware vCenter Server® 6.7. 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.

Code: vsicm67

Duration: 5.0 days

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Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
  • Describe the software-defined data center 
  • Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure 
  • Add ESXi hosts to a VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ instance 
  • Manage vCenter Server Appliance 
  • Use a local content library as an ISO store, and deploy a virtual machine 
  • Describe vCenter Server architecture 
  • Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host 
  • Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware Host Client™ and VMware vSphere® Client™ 
  • Describe virtual networks with vSphere standard switches 
  • Configure standard switch policies 
  • Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage: VMware vSphere® VMFS, NFS, iSCSI, and RDM 
  • Examine the features and functions of Fibre Channel and VMware vSAN™ 
  • Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots 
  • Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® 
  • Migrate virtual machine storage with VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® 
  • Monitor resource usage, and manage resource pools 
  • Discuss the VMware vSphere® High Availability (vSphere HA) cluster architecture 
  • Configure vSphere HA 
  • Manage vSphere HA 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 basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations 
  • Identify troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency

Content

1 Course Introduction
  • Introductions and course logistics 
  • Course objectives 
  • Describe the content of the course 
  • Gain a complete picture of the VMware certification system 
  • Familiarize yourself with the benefits of the VMware Education Learning Zone 
  • Identify additional resources

2 Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center
  • Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure 
  • Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage 
  • Use vSphere Client to access and manage your vCenter Server system and ESXi host 
  • Compare virtual machine hardware version 14 to other versions 
  • Identify the virtual network adapters, and describe the enhanced VMXNET3 
  • Compare the types of virtual disk provisioning 
  • Install and configure ESXi host settings
  • Identify the advantages of ESXi Quick Boot

3 Creating Virtual Machines
  • Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine 
  • Explain the importance of VMware Tools™ 
  • Describe how to import a virtual appliance OVF template

4 vCenter Server
  • Describe the vCenter Server architecture 
  • Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server 
  • Access and configure vCenter Server Appliance 
  • Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory 
  • Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server • Create custom inventory tags 
  • Describe the rules for applying permissions 
  • Create a custom role in vCenter Server 
  • Create a vCenter Server Appliance backup schedule 
  • Restore vCenter Server Appliance from a backup 
  • Monitor vCenter Server Appliance

5 Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
  • Describe, create, and manage standard switches 
  • Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping and load-balancing policies 
  • Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches 
  • Describe the virtual switch connection types 
  • Describe the new TCP/IP stack architecture 
  • Use VLANs with standard switches

6 Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
  • Identify storage protocols and storage device types 
  • Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage 
  • Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS and NFS datastores 
  • Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage 
  • Identify the advantages of VMware vSAN™

7 Virtual Machine Management
  • Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines 
  • Modify and manage virtual machines 
  • Create an instant clone of a virtual machine 
  • Identify the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them 
  • Add a hot-pluggable device 
  • 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

8 Resource Management and Monitoring
  • Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment 
  • Describe what overcommitment of a resource means 
  • Identify additional technologies that improve memory usage 
  • 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

9 vSphere HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance, and Protecting Data
  • Explain the vSphere HA architecture 
  • Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster 
  • Use vSphere HA advanced parameters 
  • Enforce infrastructural or intra-app dependencies during failover 
  • Describe vSphere HA heartbeat networks and datastore heartbeats 
  • Examine the features and functions of vSphere Fault Tolerance 
  • Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines 
  • Support vSphere Fault Tolerance interoperability with vSAN 
  • Examine enhanced consolidation of vSphere Fault Tolerance virtual machines 
  • Examine the features and functions of vSphere Replication

10 vSphere DRS
  • Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster 
  • Create a vSphere DRS cluster 
  • View information about a vSphere DRS cluster 
  • Configure virtual machine affinity, DRS groups, and VM-host affinity rules 
  • Remove a host from a vSphere DRS cluster

11 vSphere Update Manager
  • Describe the architecture, components, and capabilities of vSphere Update Manager 
  • Use vSphere Update Manager to manage the patching of ESXi, virtual machines, and vApps 
  • Examine the features and functions of vSphere Update Manager EAM integration 
  • Integrate vSphere Update Manager with vSphere DRS

12 vSphere Troubleshooting
  • Apply a troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency 
  • Review troubleshooting tools 
  • Find important log files • Use vSphere Syslog Collector

Audience

  • System administrators 
  • System engineers

Prerequisites

This course has the following prerequisites:
  • System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Certification

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Course Benefits

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  • Career growth
  • Broad Career opportunities
  • Worldwide recognition from leaders
  • Up-to Date technical skills
  • Popular Certification Badges

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