VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

• System administrators
• System engineers

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

• Describe the software-defined data center (SDDC)
• Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure
• Install and configure VMware 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® Update Manager™ to apply patches and perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines

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 Cluster

•  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  vSphere Lifecycle

•  Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works
•  Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to update ESXi hosts in a cluster

This course has the following prerequisites:

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

This training is a preperation for the VMware VCP-Data Center Virtualization 2022 certification (VCP-DCV 2022).

  Voor vervolgstudie wordt het volgende aanbevolen:

• VSD - VMware vSphere: Design
• VSOS - VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale
• VST - VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting