VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage plus Optimize and Scale Fast Track (VICMOSFT)

 

Course Overview

This intensive, extended-hours course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere® 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 optimize vSphere 6.5. 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 6.5, which includes VMware ESXi™ 6.5 and VMware vCenter Server® 6.5.

Who should attend

  • System administrators
  • System engineers

Prerequisites

This course requires the following prerequisites:

  • System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

  • Describe the software-defined data center
  • Deploy an ESXi host and create virtual machines
  • Describe the vCenter Server architecture
  • Deploy VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™
  • Back up and restore vCenter Server
  • Deploy vCenter Server Appliance to be highly available
  • Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host
  • Configure and manage the vSphere infrastructure with VMware vSphere® Client™ and VMware vSphere® Web Client
  • Configure virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
  • Use vSphere distributed switches to improve network scalability
  • Use vCenter Server to manage various types of storage
  • Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
  • Perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server
  • Create 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
  • Manage VMware vSphere® High Availability 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 upgrades
  • Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
  • Configure and use virtual machine storage policies
  • Configure VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control
  • Configure VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™
  • Encrypt virtual machines for additional security

Course Content

  • Course Introduction
  • Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center
  • Creating Virtual Machines
  • vCenter Server
  • Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
  • Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
  • Virtual Machine Management
  • Resource Management and Monitoring
  • vSphere HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance, and Protecting Data
  • vSphere DRS
  • vSphere Update Manager
  • Network Scalability
  • Storage Scalability

Prices & Delivery methods

Online Training

Duration
5 days

Price
  • on request
Classroom Training

Duration
5 days

Price
  • on request

Currently there are no training dates scheduled for this course.