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

5 Days

• System administrators 

• System engineers 

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

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 

1 Course Introduction 
•  Introductions and course logistics 
•  Course objectives 
 
2 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 
•  Describe the ESXi host architecture 
•  Navigate the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) to configure an ESXi host 
•  Recognize ESXi host user account best practices 
•  Install an ESXi host 
•  Use VMware Host Client™ to configure ESXi host settings 
•  Describe how to proactively manage your vSphere environment using VMware Skyline 
 
3 Virtual Machines 
•  Create and provision a virtual machine 
•  Explain the importance of VMware Tools™ 
•  Install VMware Tools 
•  Identify the files that make up a VM 
•  Recognize the components of a VM 
•  Recognize virtual devices supported by a VM 
•  Describe the benefits and use cases for containers 
•  Identify the parts of a container system 
 
4 vCenter Server 
•  Describe the vCenter Server architecture 
•  Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server 
•  Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance 
•  Use 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 VMware vCenter Server® High Availability to protect a vCenter Server Appliance 
 
5 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 
 
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 VMFS and NFS datastores 
•  Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage 
•  Recognize the components of a VMware vSAN™ configuration 
 
7 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 
•  Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine 
•  Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations 
•  Describe the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility feature 
•  Create and manage virtual machine snapshots 
•  Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Replication™ 
•  Describe the benefits of VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Data Protection 
 
8 Resource Management and Monitoring 
•  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 
 
9 vSphere Clusters 
•  Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster 
•  Create a vSphere DRS cluster 
•  Monitor a vSphere cluster configuration 
•  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 
•  Describe the function of the vSphere® Cluster Service 
 
10 vSphere Lifecycle Management 
•  Recognize the importance of vCenter Server Update Planner 
•  Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works 
•  Describe how to update ESXi hosts using baselines 
•  Validate ESXi host compliance using a cluster image 
•  Describe how to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware 
•  Describe VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ and VMware vSAN™ integration 

Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification: VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) 

The VCP-DCV 2022 certification validates candidate skills to implement, manage, and troubleshoot a vSphere infrastructure, using best practices to provide a powerful, flexible, and secure foundation for business agility that can accelerate the transformation to cloud computing.