After Completion of
this Training:
By the end of the
course, you should understand vSphere 5.5 functions and features and be able to
meet the following objectives:
- Deploy an ESXi host
- Deploy a vCenter Server
instance
- Deploy a vCenter Server
appliance
- Manage an ESXi host using
vCenter Server
- Manage ESXi storage using
vCenter Server
- Manage ESXi networking using
vCenter Server
- Manage virtual machines using
vCenter Server
- Deploy and manage
thin-provisioned virtual machines
- Migrate virtual machines with
VMware vSphere® vMotion®
- Manage vSphere infrastructure
with VMware vSphere® Web Client and VMware
- vSphere® Client™
- Migrate virtual machines using
VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
- Manage access control using
vCenter Server
- Monitor resource usage using
vCenter Server
- Manage VMware vSphere® High
Availability, VMware vSphere®
- Fault Tolerance , and VMware
vSphere® Data Protection™ using vCenter Server
- Apply patches using VMware
vSphere®Update Manager™
Who should attend ?
- System administrators
- Systems engineers
- Operators responsible for ESXi
and vCenter Server
Prerequisites:
System administration
experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
Topics Covered:
- Course Introduction
- Introductions and course
logistics
- Course objectives
- Virtualized Data Center
- Introduce components of the
virtualized data center
- Describe where vSphere fits
into the cloud architecture
- Install and use vSphere Client
- Creating Virtual Machines
- Introduce virtual machines,
virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
- Deploy a single virtual
machine
- VMware vCenter Server
- Introduce the vCenter Server
architecture
- DescribeIntroduce VMware®
vCenter™
- Single Sign-On™
- Install and use vSphere Web
Client
- Introduce VMware® vCenter™
Server Appliance™
- Configure and manage vCenter
Server Appliance
- Manage vCenter Server
inventory objects and licenses
- Configuring and Managing
Virtual Networks
- Describe, create, and manage a
standard switch
- Describe and modify standard
switch properties
- Configure virtual switch
load-balancing algorithms
- Configuring and Managing
Virtual Storage
- Introduce storage protocols
and device names
- Configure ESXi with iSCSI,
NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Create and manage vSphere
datastores
- Deploy and manage VMware®
Virtual SAN™
- Virtual Machine Management
- Use templates and cloning to
deploy virtual machines
- Modify and manage virtual
machines
- Create and manage virtual
machine snapshots
- Perform vSphere vMotion and
vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
- PerformCreate a VMware
vSphere® vApp™
- Access and Authentication
Control
- Control user access through
roles and permissions
- Configure and manage the ESXi
firewall
- CreateConfigure ESXi lockdown
mode
- Integrate ESXi with Active
Directory
- Resource Management and
Monitoring
- Introduce virtual CPU and
memory concepts
- Describe methods for
optimizing CPU and memory usage
- Configure and manage resource
pools
- Monitor resource usage using
vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms
- High Availability and Fault
Tolerance
- Introduce the new vSphere High
Availability architecture
- Configure and manage a vSphere
HA cluster
- Introduce vSphere Fault
Tolerance
- MonitorDescribe VMware
vSphere® Replication
- Scalability
- Configure and manage a VMware
vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ (DRS) cluster
- Configure and manage a VMware
vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ (DRS) cluster
- Configure Enhanced vMotion
Compatibility
- Use vSphere HA and DRS
together
- Patch Management
- Use vSphere Update Manager to
manage ESXi patching
- Install vSphere Update Manager
and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in
- Create patch baselines
- Scan and remediate hosts
- Installing VMware Components
- Introduce ESXi installation
- Describe boot-from-SAN
requirements
- Introduce vCenter Server
deployment options
- MonitorDescribe VMware
vSphere® Replication
- Install vCenter Server
(Windows-based)
