VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6]

Delivery Mthod : Classroom, 
Duration           : 5 Days

Overview:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 6, which includes VMware ESXi™ 6 and VMware vCenter Server™ 6.

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.

This course meets the prerequisite for advanced vSphere courses, which can be found at www.vmware.com/education.

This course is also available in an On Demand format. For more information, select this link: VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6] - On Demand.

Objectives:   
•  Describe the software-defined data center
•  Deploy an ESXi host and create virtual machines
•  Describe vCenter Server architecture
•  Deploy a vCenter Server instance or VMware vCenter Server™ Appliance™ 
•  Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host 
•  Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware vSphere® Client™ and VMware vSphere® 
   Web Client
•  Configure virtual networks with vSphere standard switches 
•  Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage: VMware vSphere® VMFS, NFS, virtual    
   SAN, and Virtual Volumes  
•  Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
•  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
•  Use VMware vRealize™ Operations Manager™ to identify and solve issues through analytics and alerts  
•  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 vSphere distributed switches to improve network scalability
•  Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches and perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi 
   hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations
 
Intended Audience:    •  System administrators
•  Systems engineers
 
Prerequisites:    •  System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
•  Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course for 
   VCA-DCV certification
 
Outline:   

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• References and resources

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

Creating Virtual Machines

• Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
• Create and work with virtual machines and templates

vCenter Server

• Introduce the vCenter Server architecture
• Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
• Use vSphere Web Client
• Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and license

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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