VMware vSphere 7: Fast Track

This five-day, intensive course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere® 7 management skills. Building on the installation and configuration content from our best-selling course, you will also develop advanced skills needed to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you will install, configure and manage vSphere 7. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size using vSphere 7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 7 and VMware vCenter Server® 7.

• Product Alignment

• ESXi 7

• vCenter Server 7

Zielgruppe

• Erfahrene Systemadministratoren

• Systemintegratoren

Voraussetzungen

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

• Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course or VCA-DCV certification

Trainingsinhalte

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

• Use VMware Host Client™ to access and manage ESXi host

3. Virtual Machines:

• Create and remove a virtual machine

• Provision a virtual machine with virtual devices

• Identify the files that make up a virtual machine

• Explain the importance of VMware Tools™

4. vCenter Server:

• Describe the vCenter Server architecture

• Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server

• Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance

• Use the 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 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

• Deploy virtual machines on a VMware vSAN™ datastore

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

• Dynamically increase the size of a virtual disk

• Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine

• Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations

• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots

• Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Replication™

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 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

• Configure a vSphere cluster using ESXi Cluster Quickstart

• Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster

• Create a vSphere DRS cluster

10. Network Scalability:

• Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches

• Describe how VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control enhances performance

• Explain distributed switch features such as port mirroring and NetFlow

11. vSphere Lifecycle Management:

• Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works

• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to update ESXi hosts in a cluster

12. Host and Management Scalability:

• Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance

• Create and manage resource pools in a cluster

13. Storage Scalability:

• Explain why VMware vSphere® VMFS is a high-performance, scalable file system

• Explain VMware vSphere® Storage APIs - Array Integration, VMware vSphere® API for Storage Awareness™, and vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering

• Configure and assign virtual machine storage policies

• Create VMware vSAN™ storage policies

• Configure VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ and VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control

• Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER

14. Introduction to vSphere with Kubernetes:

• Differentiate between containers and virtual machines

• Identify the parts of a container system

• Recognize the basic architecture of Kubernetes

• Describe a basic Kubernetes workflow

• Describe the purpose of vSphere with Kubernetes and how it fits into the VMware Tanzu portfolio

• Explain the vSphere with Kubernetes supervisor cluster

• Describe the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service

Seminarzeiten

• Dauer: 5 Tage
• 1. Tag: 10:00 Uhr bis 18:00 Uhr
• Weitere Tage: 10:00 Uhr bis 18:00 Uhr
• Letzter Tag: 10:00 Uhr bis 17:00 Uhr

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