VMware vSphere : Install Configure & Manage

Course Overview:

This five-day VMware vSphere foundation 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 VMware course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size.

Product Alignment:

• VMware ESXi 8.0
• VMware vCenter 8.0

Target Audience:

Individuals involved in the implementation, maintenance and administration of a vSphere environment. 

Course Objectives:

By actively participating in this course, you will learn about the following:

• Install and configure ESXi hosts.
• Deploy and configure vCenter.
• Use the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users.
• Create virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches.
• Create and configure datastores using storage technologies supported by vSphere.
• Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots.
• Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines.
• Manage virtual machine resource allocation.
• Migrate virtual machines with vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion.
• Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with vSphere High Availability (HA) and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler.
• Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date.

Course Content:

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

vSphere and Virtualization Overview

• Explain basic virtualization concepts
• Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
• Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
• Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs

Installing and Configuring ESXi

• Install an ESXi host
• Recognize ESXi user account best practices
• Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client

Deploying and Configuring vCenter

• Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter
• Deploy vCenter Server Appliance
• Configure vCenter settings
• Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys
• Create and organize vCenter inventory objects
• Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions
• View vCenter logs and events

Configuring vSphere Networking

• Configure and view standard switch configurations
• Configure and view distributed switch configurations
• Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches
• Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches

Configuring vSphere Storage

• Recognize vSphere storage technologies
• Identify types of vSphere datastores
• Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing
• Describe iSCSI components and addressing
• Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi
• Create and manage VMFS datastores
• Configure and manage NFS datastores

Deploying Virtual Machines

• Create and provision VMs
• Explain the importance of VMware Tools
• Identify the files that make up a VM
• Recognize the components of a VM
• Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options
• Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources
• Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them
• Clone VMs
• Create customization specifications for guest operating systems
• Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries
• Deploy VMs from content libraries
• Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries

Prerequisites:

Attendees should meet the following prerequisites:

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Certification / Exam:

This course is recommended as preparation for the VMWare Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization 2023.

Further Information:

 For more information or to book this course, please contact our Course Enquiries Team on 0117 370 1970 or send us an email us at enquiries@skilltec.co.uk

This training course provided by Skilltec is accredited through Global Knowledge Training Ltd. Global Knowledge Training Ltd are the authorised learning partner; all trademarks and partner statuses are provided through them.

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