VMware vSphere: Install Configure Manage [V8] (VCP1)

Virtualization, VMware

This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 8, which includes VMware ESXi 8 and VMware vCenter 8. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size.

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Course content:

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  • VMware vCenter Server
    1. Introduce the vCenter Server architecture
    2. Introduce VMware® vCenter™ Single Sign-On™
    3. Install and use vSphere Web Client
    4. Introduce VMware® vCenter™ Server Appliance™
    5. Configure and manage vCenter Server Appliance
    6. Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
  • Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
    1. Describe, create, and manage a standard switch
    2. Describe and modify standard switch properties
    3. Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms
  • Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
    1. Introduce storage protocols and device names
    2. Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
    3. Create and manage vSphere datastores
    4. Deploy and manage VMware® Virtual SAN™
  • Virtual Machine Management
    1. Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
    2. Modify and manage virtual machines
    3. Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
    4. Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
    5. Create a VMware vSphere® vApp™
  • Access and Authentication Control
    1. Control user access through roles and permissions
    2. Configure and manage the ESXi firewall
    3. Configure ESXi lockdown mode
    4. Integrate ESXi with Active Directory
  • Resource Management and Monitoring
    1. Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
    2. Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
    3. Configure and manage resource pools
    4. Monitor resource usage using vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms
  • High Availability and Fault Tolerance
    1. Introduce the new vSphere High Availability architecture
    2. Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
    3. Introduce vSphere Fault Tolerance
    4. Describe VMware vSphere® Replication
  • Scalability
    1. Configure and manage a VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ (DRS) cluster
    2. Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
    3. Use vSphere HA and DRS together
  • Patch Management
    1. Use vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi patching
    2. Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in
    3. Create patch baselines
    4. Scan and remediate hosts
  • Installing VMware Components
    1. Introduce ESXi installation
    2. Describe boot-from-SAN requirements
    3. Introduce vCenter Server deployment options
    4. Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
    5. Install vCenter Server (Windows-based)
  • Course Introduction
    1. Introductions and course logistics
    2. Course objectives
  • Software-Defined Data Center
    1. Introduce components of the software-defined data center
    2. Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
    3. Install and use vSphere Client
    4. Overview of ESXi
  • Creating Virtual Machines
    1.  Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
    2. Create and work with virtual machines
  • vCenter Server
    1. Introduce the vCenter Server architecture
    2. Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
    3. Install and use vSphere Web Client
    4. Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
    5. Explain the benefits of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
  • Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
    1. Describe, create, and manage standard switches
    2. Describe and modify standard switch properties
    3. Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms
    4. Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches, network connections, and port groups
  • Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
    1. Introduce storage protocols and storage device names
    2. Discuss ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
    3. Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores
    4. Introduce VMware Virtual SAN™
  • Virtual Machine Management
    1. Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
    2. Modify and manage virtual machines
    3. Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
    4. Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
    5. Create a vApp
    6. Introduce the various types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them
  • Resource Management and Monitoring
    1. Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
    2. Configure and manage resource pools
    3. Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
    4. Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage
    5. Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events
    6. Introduce vRealize Operations Manager for data center monitoring and management
  •  vSphere HA and vSphere Fault Tolerance
    1. Explain the vSphere HA architecture
    2. Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
    3. Use vSphere HA advanced parameters
    4. Introduce vSphere Fault Tolerance
    5. Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines
    6. Introduce vSphere Replication
    7. Use vSphere Data Protection to back up and restore data
  • Host Scalability
    1. Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
    2. Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster
    3. Work with affinity and anti-affinity rules
    4. Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together
  • vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance
    1. Use vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi patching
    2. Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in
    3. Create patch baselines
    4. Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
    5. Scan and remediate hosts
  • Installing VMware Components
    1. Introduce ESXi installation
    2. Describe boot-from-SAN requirements
    3. Introduce vCenter Server deployment options
    4. Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
    5. Discuss installation of vCenter Server Appliance and a vCenter Server instance
  • Course Introduction
    1. Introductions and course logistics
    2. Course objectives
    3. Describe the content of the course
    4. Gain a complete picture of the VMware certification system
    5. Familiarize yourself with the benefits of the VMware Education Learning Zone
    6. Identify additional resources
  • Introduction to vSphere and the SoftwareDefined Data Center
    1. Describe how vSphere fits into the softwaredefined data center and the cloud infrastructure
    2. Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage
    3. Use vSphere Client to access and manage your vCenter Server system and ESXi host
    4. Compare virtual machine hardware version 14 to other versions
    5. Identify the virtual network adapters, and describe the enhanced VMXNET3
    6. Compare the types of virtual disk provisioning
    7. Identify the advantages of ESXi Quick Boot
  • Creating Virtual Machines
    1. Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine
    2. Explain the importance of VMware Tools™
    3. Describe how to import a virtual appliance OVF template
    4. Manage VMware Tools
    5. Explain troubleshooting OS installation and VMware Tools
  • vCenter Server
    1. Describe the vCenter Server architecture
    2. Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
    3. Identify the vCenter Server services, components, and modules
    4. Access and configure vCenter Server Appliance
    5. Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory
    6. Describe the rules for applying permissions
    7. Create a custom role in vCenter Server
    8. Create a backup schedule
    9. Restore vCenter Server Appliance from backup
    10. Monitor vCenter Server Appliance
  • Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
    1. Describe, create, and manage standard switches
    2. Configure virtual switch security and loadbalancing policies
    3. Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches
    4. Describe the virtual switch connection types
    5. Describe the new TCP/IP stack architecture
    6. Use VLANs with standard switches
  • Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
    1. Identify storage protocols and storage device types
    2. Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
    3. Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS and NFS datastores
    4. Describe the new features of VMFS 6.5
    5. Identify the advantages of VMware vSAN™
    6. Describe guest file encryption
  • Virtual Machine Management
    1. Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
    2. Modify and manage virtual machines
    3. Clone a virtual machine
    4. Upgrade virtual machine hardware to version 14
    5. Remove virtual machines from the vCenter Server inventory and datastore
    6. Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine
    7. Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
    8. Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
    9. Create, clone, and export vApps
    10. Identify the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them
  • Resource Management and Monitoring
    1. Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment
    2. Describe what overcommitment of a resource means
    3. Identify additional technologies that improve memory usage
    4. Configure and manage resource pools
    5. Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
    6. Use various tools to monitor resource usage
    7. Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events
  • vSphere HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance, and Protecting Data
    1. Explain the vSphere HA architecture
    2. Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
    3. Use vSphere HA advanced parameters
    4. Enforce infrastructural or intra-app dependencies during failover
    5. Describe vSphere HA heartbeat networks and datastore heartbeats
    6. Examine the features and functions of vSphere Fault Tolerance
Prerequisites:
System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
Schedule:
5 days (9:00-17:00)
Price per person:
1 960.00 € (2 371.60 € incl. 21% VAT)
Training Partner:
TD SYNNEX AS Czech

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