Introduction of the course

This 5-days course provides intensive hands-on training focused 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 tu administer vSphere infrastructure for organization of any size. This course is the foundation for most VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.

Addressees 

• System Administrator;
• System Engineer.  

Prerequisites

Experience in System Administration of Microsoft Windows or Linux systems.  

The course is a prerequisite for the VMware Professional Certification.

Objectives

By the end of the course, you should have reached these objectives: 

• Describe the software-defined data center; 
• Explain vSphere components and their function within the infrastructure;  
• Add ESXi hosts to a VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ instance;  
• Manage a 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. 

Duration

5 days.