VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

About Course

This thirty-days course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 8, which includes VMware ESXi 8 and VMware vCenter 8. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size.
This course is the foundation for most VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.

Install and configure ESXi hosts
Deploy and configure vCenter
Use the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users
Create virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches
Create and configure datastores using storage technologies supported by vSphere
Use the vSphere® ClientTM to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines
Manage virtual machine resource allocation
Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource SchedulerTM
Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date

Course Content

Course Introduction

Pre-Require Things

00:00
Introductions and course logistics

00:00
Course objectives

00:00

vSphere and Virtualization Overview

Installing and Configuring ESXi

Deploying and Configuring vCenter

Configuring vSphere Networking

Configuring vSphere Storage

Deploying Virtual Machines

Create and provision VMs

00:00
Explain the importance of VMware Tools

00:00
Identify the files that make up a VM

00:00
Recognize the components of a VM

00:00
Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options

00:00
Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources

00:00
Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them

00:00
Clone VMs

00:00
Create customization specifications for guest operating systems

00:00
Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries

00:00
Deploy VMs from content libraries

00:00
Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries

00:00

Managing Virtual Machines

Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances

00:00
Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion

00:00
Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations

00:00
Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion

00:00
Take a snapshot of a VM

00:00
Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots

00:00
Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment

00:00
Describe how VMs compete for resources

00:00
Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits

00:00

Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters

Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA

00:00
View information about a vSphere cluster

00:00
Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster

00:00
Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings

00:00
Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster

00:00
Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures

00:00
Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster

00:00
Recognize vSphere HA design considerations

00:00
Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings

00:00
Configure a vSphere HA cluster

00:00
Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance

00:00

Managing the vSphere Lifecycle

Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster

00:00
Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner

00:00
Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports

00:00
Recognize features of VMware vSphere® Lifecycle ManagerTM

00:00
Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images

00:00
Describe how to update hosts using baselines

00:00
Describe ESXi images

00:00
Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and update ESXi hosts

00:00
Update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager

00:00
Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations

00:00
Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware

00:00

Student Ratings & Reviews

No Review Yet

Join For Free

About Course

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

Course Introduction

Pre-Require Things

Introductions and course logistics

Course objectives

vSphere and Virtualization Overview

Explain basic virtualization concepts

Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure

Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere

Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs

Installing and Configuring ESXi

Install an ESXi host

Recognize ESXi user account best practices

Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client

Deploying and Configuring vCenter

Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter

Deploy vCenter Server Appliance

Configure vCenter settings

Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys

Create and organize vCenter inventory objects

Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions

View vCenter logs and events

Configuring vSphere Networking

Configure and view standard switch configurations

Configure and view distributed switch configurations

Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches

Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches

Configuring vSphere Storage

Recognize vSphere storage technologies

Identify types of vSphere datastores

Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing

Describe iSCSI components and addressing

Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi

Create and manage VMFS datastores

Configure and manage NFS datastores

Deploying Virtual Machines

Create and provision VMs

Explain the importance of VMware Tools

Identify the files that make up a VM

Recognize the components of a VM

Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options

Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources

Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them

Clone VMs

Create customization specifications for guest operating systems

Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries

Deploy VMs from content libraries

Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries

Managing Virtual Machines

Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances

Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion

Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations

Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion

Take a snapshot of a VM

Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots

Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment

Describe how VMs compete for resources

Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits

Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters

Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA

View information about a vSphere cluster

Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster

Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings

Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster

Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures

Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster

Recognize vSphere HA design considerations

Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings

Configure a vSphere HA cluster

Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance

Managing the vSphere Lifecycle

Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster

Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner

Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports

Recognize features of VMware vSphere® Lifecycle ManagerTM

Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images

Describe how to update hosts using baselines