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This five day intensive extended hour course takes you from the introduction to advanced management of VMware vSphere. Building on the installation and configuration content from our bestseller course, you will also develop the skills you need to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. You install, configure, and manage vSphere 7.x through a mix of lessons and hands-on exercises. You will explore the features that make up a truly scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where those features will have the greatest impact. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for companies of all sizes with vSphere 7.x, which includes VMware ESXi 7.x and VMware vCenter Server 7.x.
The seminar is recognized as a prerequisite for the VMware Certified Professional Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) certification.
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Course Contents
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- Course Introduction
- Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center
- Virtual Machines
- vCenter Server
- Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
- Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
- Virtual Machine Management
- Resource Management and Monitoring
- vSphere Clusters
- Network Scalability
- vSphere Lifecycle Management
- Host and Management Scalability
- Storage Scalability
- Introduction to vSphere with Kubernetes
You will receive the original course documentation from VMware as an e-book.
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Target Group
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New and experienced system administrators, systems technicians, and systems integrators ready for in-depth, low-downtime training that will provide them with excellent vSphere knowledge.
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Knowledge Prerequisites
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Experience in system administration with Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.
| 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 |
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Classroom training
- Do you prefer the classic training method? A course in one of our Training Centers, with a competent trainer and the direct exchange between all course participants? Then you should book one of our classroom training dates!
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Hybrid training
- Hybrid training means that online participants can additionally attend a classroom course. The dynamics of a real seminar are maintained, and the online participants are able to benefit from that. Online participants of a hybrid course use a collaboration platform, such as WebEx Training Center or Saba Meeting. To do this, a PC with browser and Internet access is required, as well as a headset and ideally a Web cam. In the seminar room, we use specially developed and customized audio- and video-technologies. This makes sure that the communication between all persons involved works in a convenient and fault-free way.
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Online training
- You wish to attend a course in online mode? We offer you online course dates for this course topic. To attend these seminars, you need to have a PC with Internet access (minimum data rate 1Mbps), a headset when working via VoIP and optionally a camera. For further information and technical recommendations, please refer to.
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Tailor-made courses
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You need a special course for your team? In addition to our standard offer, we will also support you in creating your customized courses, which precisely meet your individual demands. We will be glad to consult you and create an individual offer for you.
Request for customized courses
You can find the complete description of this course with dates and prices ready for download at as PDF.-
This five day intensive extended hour course takes you from the introduction to advanced management of VMware vSphere. Building on the installation and configuration content from our bestseller course, you will also develop the skills you need to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. You install, configure, and manage vSphere 7.x through a mix of lessons and hands-on exercises. You will explore the features that make up a truly scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where those features will have the greatest impact. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for companies of all sizes with vSphere 7.x, which includes VMware ESXi 7.x and VMware vCenter Server 7.x.
The seminar is recognized as a prerequisite for the VMware Certified Professional Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) certification.
-
Course Contents
-
- Course Introduction
- Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center
- Virtual Machines
- vCenter Server
- Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
- Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
- Virtual Machine Management
- Resource Management and Monitoring
- vSphere Clusters
- Network Scalability
- vSphere Lifecycle Management
- Host and Management Scalability
- Storage Scalability
- Introduction to vSphere with Kubernetes
You will receive the original course documentation from VMware as an e-book.
-
Target Group
-
New and experienced system administrators, systems technicians, and systems integrators ready for in-depth, low-downtime training that will provide them with excellent vSphere knowledge.
-
Knowledge Prerequisites
-
Experience in system administration with Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.
| 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 |
-
Classroom training
- Do you prefer the classic training method? A course in one of our Training Centers, with a competent trainer and the direct exchange between all course participants? Then you should book one of our classroom training dates!
-
Hybrid training
- Hybrid training means that online participants can additionally attend a classroom course. The dynamics of a real seminar are maintained, and the online participants are able to benefit from that. Online participants of a hybrid course use a collaboration platform, such as WebEx Training Center or Saba Meeting. To do this, a PC with browser and Internet access is required, as well as a headset and ideally a Web cam. In the seminar room, we use specially developed and customized audio- and video-technologies. This makes sure that the communication between all persons involved works in a convenient and fault-free way.
-
Online training
- You wish to attend a course in online mode? We offer you online course dates for this course topic. To attend these seminars, you need to have a PC with Internet access (minimum data rate 1Mbps), a headset when working via VoIP and optionally a camera. For further information and technical recommendations, please refer to.
-
Tailor-made courses
-
You need a special course for your team? In addition to our standard offer, we will also support you in creating your customized courses, which precisely meet your individual demands. We will be glad to consult you and create an individual offer for you.
Request for customized courses
You can find the complete description of this course with dates and prices ready for download at as PDF.
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