VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]

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.

Target

• System administrators
• System engineers

Contents

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

Prerequisites

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Study Materials