VMware vSphere : Fast Track v7

Experienced system administrators

• Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage
• Create, configure, migrate, manage, and monitor virtual machines and virtual appliances
• Use VMware vCenter Converter™ Standalone
• Manage user access to the VMware virtual infrastructure
• Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage
• Implement VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
• Use Host Profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
• Use vSphere distributed switches to scale networking
• Use profile-driven storage and Storage DRS to scale storage
• Use VMware vCenter™ Update Manager to apply ESXi patches
• Use VMware vSphere® Management Assistant to manage vSphere
• Deploy ESXi, vCenter Server, and vCenter Server Appliance
• Use Image Builder to create an ESXi image
• Use VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy to provision ESXi hosts

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 Introduction to VMware Virtualization

• Introduce virtualization and vSphere components
• Explain the concepts of server, network, and storage virtualization
• Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
• Install and use vSphere user interfaces
• Describe the ESXi architecture and configure various ESXi settings

3 Creating Virtual Machines

• Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
• Deploy a single virtual machine

4 VMware vCenter Server

• Introduce vCenter Server architecture
• Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses

5 Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

• Describe, create, and manage a standard virtual switch
• Describe and modify standard virtual switch properties
• Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms

6 Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

• Introduce storage protocols and device names
• Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores
• Introduce VMware vSphere® Storage Appliance

7 Virtual Machine Management

• Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
• Modify and manage virtual machines
• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
• Perform VMware vSphere vMotion® and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
• Create a vSphere vApp
• Use VMware vCenter Converter™ Standalone to hot-clone a system

8 Access and Authentication Control

• Control user access through roles and permissions
• Discuss ESXi host access and authentication
• Integrate ESXi with Active Directory
• Introduce VMware® vShield™ products

9 Resource Management and Monitoring

• Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
• Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
• Configure and manage resource pools
• Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage

10 High Availability and Fault Tolerance

• Explain the vSphere High Availability architecture
• Configure an manage a vSphere HA cluster
• Set vSphere HA advanced parameters
• Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) on a virtual machine

11 Host Scalability

• Use Host Profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
• Configure and manage a vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler™ cluster (DRS)
• Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
• Use vSphere HA and DRS together
• Configure and manage vSphere Distributed Power Management (vSphere DPM)

12 Network Scalability

• Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches, network connections, and port groups
• Discuss distributed virtual switch features, such as PVLANs, discovery protocols, Network I/O Control, NetFlow, and port mirroring

13 Storage Scalability

• Describe VMware vSphere® Storage APIs - Array Integration and Storage Awareness
• Explain profile-driven storage
• Add a storage policy to a virtual machine storage profile
• Introduce storage I/O control
• Create a datastore cluster
• Configure Storage DRS™

14 Data Protection

• Discuss a strategy for backing up ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
• Introduce the VMware® Data Recovery appliance
• Discuss solutions for efficiently backing up virtual machines

15 Patch Management

• Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to manage ESXi patching
• Install Update Manager and the Update Manager plug-in
• Create patch baselines
• Scan and remediate hosts

16 VMware vSphere Management Assistant

• Describe VMware vSphere® Management Assistant (vMA)
• Configure vMA
• Discuss the VMware vSphere® Command-Line Interface command set
• Perform command-line operations for host management, network management, storage management, and performance monitoring

17 Installing VMware Components

• Use vCenter Linked Mode to manage multiple vCenter Server inventories
• Introduce ESXi installation
• Describe boot-from-SAN requirements
• Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
• Install vCenter Server (Windows-based)
• Introduce vCenter Server Appliance
• Install and configure vCenter Server Appliance
• Use Image Builder to create an ESXi installation image
• Use Auto Deploy to deploy a stateless ESXi host

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