VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [7.0] Course VSICM70:

About this course

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [7.0] is a 5-day course which 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. Attendance of this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification:

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

Audience profile

• System Administrators
• System Engineers

At course completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• 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.

           Course Outline

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics

  • Course objectives

Module 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
• Describe how to proactively manage your vSphere environment using VMware Skyline

Module 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

   Module 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

 Module 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

   Module 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

Module 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

 Module 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

Module 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

  • Describe the function of the vSphere^® Cluster Service

 Module 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
• Describe VMware vSphere^® Lifecycle Manager™ and VMware vSAN™ integrat

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