VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]

Popis kurzu

Tento pětidenní kurz zahrnuje intenzivní praktický výcvik zaměřený na instalaci, konfiguraci a správu VMware vSphere® 7, který zahrnuje VMware ESXi ™ 7 a VMware vCenter Server® 7. Tento kurz vás připraví na správu infrastruktury vSphere pro organizaci jakékoli velikosti.

Tento kurz je základem pro většinu ostatních technologií VMware v softwarově definovaném datovém centru.

Cílová skupina

• Správci systému
• Systémoví inženýři

This five-day 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.

Target group

• System administrators
• System engineers

Určeno pro

• System administrators
• System engineers

Obsah kurzu

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 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

Certifications

Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification:

• VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)

Course Outline:

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


• 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


• 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


• Describe how to update ESXi hosts using baselines


• Validate ESXi host compliance using a cluster image


• Describe how to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware

Předpoklady

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

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