VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [v6.0]
Price: $3845.00
 Course Length: 5 days
Course Overview
Prerequisites
System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course for VCA-DCV certification
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

•	Describe the software-defined data center
•	Deploy an ESXi host and create virtual machines
•	Describe vCenter Server architecture
•	Deploy a vCenter Server instance or VMware vCenter Server™ Appliance™
•	Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host
•	Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware vSphere® Client™ and VMware vSphere® Web Client
•	Configure virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
•	Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage
•	Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
•	Create a vApp
•	Describe and use the content library
•	Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion®
•	Use VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® to migrate virtual machine storage
•	Monitor resource usage and manage resource pools
•	Use VMware vRealize™ Operations Manager™ to identify and solve issues through analytics and alerts
•	Manage VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
•	Use VMware vSphere® Replication™ and VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ to replicate virtual machines and perform data recovery
•	Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters to improve host scalability
•	Use vSphere distributed switches to improve network scalability
•	Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches
•	Perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations.

 	
 	
Course Outline
 
Lesson 1: Course Introduction
•	Introductions and course logistics
•	Course objectives
Lesson 2: Software-Defined Data Center
•	Introduce components of the software-defined data center
•	Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
•	Install and use vSphere Client
•	Overview of ESXi
Lesson 3: Creating Virtual Machines
•	Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
•	Create and work with virtual machines
Lesson 4: vCenter Server
•	Introduce the vCenter Server architecture
•	Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
•	Install and use vSphere Web Client
•	Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
•	Explain the benefits of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
Lesson 5: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
•	Describe, create, and manage standard switches
•	Describe and modify standard switch properties
•	Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms
•	Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches, network connections, and port groups
Lesson 6: Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
•	Introduce storage protocols and storage device names
•	Discuss ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
•	Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores
•	Introduce VMware Virtual SAN™
Lesson 7: Virtual Machine Management
•	Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
•	Modify and manage virtual machines
•	Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
•	Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
•	Create a vApp
•	Introduce the various types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them
Lesson 8: Resource Management and Monitoring
•	Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
•	Configure and manage resource pools
•	Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
•	Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage
•	Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events
•	Introduce vRealize Operations Manager for data center monitoring and management
•	Lesson 9: vSphere HA and vSphere Fault Tolerance
•	Explain the vSphere HA architecture
•	Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
•	Use vSphere HA advanced parameters
•	Introduce vSphere Fault Tolerance
•	Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines
•	Introduce vSphere Replication
•	Use vSphere Data Protection to back up and restore data
Lesson 10: Host Scalability
•	Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
•	Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster
•	Work with affinity and anti-affinity rules
•	Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together
•	Lesson 11: vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance
•	Use vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi patching
•	Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in
•	Create patch baselines
•	Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
•	Scan and remediate hosts
Lesson 12: Installing VMware Components
•	Introduce ESXi installation
•	Describe boot-from-SAN requirements
•	Introduce vCenter Server deployment options
•	Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
•	Discuss installation of vCenter Server Appliance and a vCenter Server instance