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VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage 7.0

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About This Course

Course Description

This course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 7 and VMware vCenter Server® 7. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size.

This course is the foundation for most of the other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.

Certifications

Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification:
• VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)

Product Alignment

• VMware ESXi 7.0
• VMware vCenter Server 7.0

Learning Objectives

Describe the software-defined data center (SDDC)

Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure

Install and configure ESXi hosts

Deploy and configure VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™

Use VMware vSphere® Client™ to manage the vCenter Server inventory and the vCenter Server configuration

Manage, monitor, back up, and protect vCenter Server Appliance

Create virtual networks with vSphere standard switches

Describe the storage technologies supported by vSphere

Configure virtual storage using iSCSI and NFS storage

Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores

Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots

Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library

Manage virtual machine resource use

Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®

Create and manage a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™

Discuss solutions for managing the vSphere life cycle

Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines

Inclusions

Certified Instructor-led training
Official Training Seminar Student Handbook
Collaboration with classmates (not currently available for self-paced course)
Real-world learning activities and scenarios
Exam scheduling support*
Enjoy job placement assistance for the first 12 months after course completion.
This course is eligible for CCS Learning Academy’s Learn and Earn Program: get a tuition fee refund of up to 50% if you are placed in a job through CCS Global Tech’s Placement Division*
Government and Private pricing available.*
*For more details call: 858-208-4141 or email: training@ccslearningacademy.com; sales@ccslearningacademy.com

Pre-requisites

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Target Audience

System administrators
System engineers

Curriculum

63 Lessons

1. Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics

• Course objectives

2 Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center

3. Virtual Machines

4. vCenter Server

5. Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

6. Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

7. Virtual Machine Management

8. Resource Management and Monitoring

9. vSphere Clusters

10. vSphere Lifecycle Management

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Level

Intermediate

Lectures

63 lectures

Subject

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Inclusions

Certified Instructor-led training
Official Training Seminar Student Handbook
Collaboration with classmates (not currently available for self-paced course)
Real-world learning activities and scenarios
Exam scheduling support*
Enjoy job placement assistance for the first 12 months after course completion.
This course is eligible for CCS Learning Academy’s Learn and Earn Program: get a tuition fee refund of up to 50% if you are placed in a job through CCS Global Tech’s Placement Division*
Government and Private pricing available.*
*For more details call: 858-208-4141 or email: training@ccslearningacademy.com; sales@ccslearningacademy.com

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage 7.0

About This Course

Course Description

Certifications

Product Alignment

Learning Objectives

Inclusions

Pre-requisites

Target Audience

Curriculum

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

• Describe the ESXi host architecture

• Navigate the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) to configure an ESXi host

• Recognize ESXi host user account best practices

• Install an ESXi host

• Use VMware Host Client™ to configure ESXi host settings

3. Virtual Machines

• Create and provision a virtual machine

• Explain the importance of VMware Tools™

• Install VMware Tools

• Identify the files that make up a VM

• Recognize the components of a VM

• Recognize virtual devices supported by a VM

• Describe the benefits and use cases for containers

• Identify the parts of a container system

4. vCenter Server

• Describe the vCenter Server architecture

• Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server

• Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance

• Use 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 VMware 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

• Recognize the components of a VMware vSAN™ configuration

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

• Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine

• Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations

• Describe the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility feature

• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots

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

• Describe the benefits of VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Data Protection

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 the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster

• Create a vSphere DRS cluster

• Monitor a vSphere cluster configuration

• 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

10. vSphere Lifecycle Management

• Recognize the importance of vCenter Server Update Planner

• Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works