VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6] Course
Course Overview
ِAbout VMware vSphere Course
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.
VMware vSphere Course from Microsoft 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.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- Describe the software-defined data center
- Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure
- Deploy an ESXi host Deploy VMware 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 vSphere® Client™ and VMware vSphere® Web 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, virtual SAN, Fibre Channel, and VMware Virtual SAN™
- Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots Create, clone, and export 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 esxtop to identify and solve performance issues
- Discuss the VMware vSphere® High Availability 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
TARGET AUDIENCE
System Administrators and System Engineers
Download now VMware vSphere Course 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 licenses
- 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






