VMware vSphere Fast Track [V6.0]

Quantity

$6,195.00

Add to Cart

New Age Technologies was VMware’s first North American VATC and has been delivering VMware Authorized Training since 2003. We offer VMware’s full suite of authorized courses including courses pertaining to VMware vSphere Fast Track, VMware Horizon View, VMware vRealize, & VMware vCloud. VMware is the foundation of a company’s virtualization strategy and is used by 100% of the Fortune 100 companies. With more than 500,000 customers, VMware training is imperative for career advancement in the following IT-related fields: engineering, administration, management & architecture. Invest in your future with VMware training from New Age Technologies today.

✉ VMware Training Specialist | ☏ 502.909.0819

---

COURSE INFORMATION

VMware vSphere Fast Track [V6.0] Overview:

The VMware vSphere Fast Track [V6.0] is an intensive, extended-hours and hands-on lab training course that focuses on installing, configuring, managing and troubleshooting VMware vSphere 6, including VMware ESXi 6 and VMware vCenter Server 6. This course combines the content of our best-selling VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course with troubleshooting skills needed for maintaining highly available and scalable vSphere environments.

Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV) exam.

VMware vSphere Fast Track [V6.0] Prerequisites:

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
• Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course or VCA-DCV certification

Who Should Attend:

New and experienced system administrators, systems engineers, and system integrators willing to work hard to achieve superior vSphere skills with minimal time away from the office.

VMware vSphere Fast Track [V6.0] Objectives:

• Deploy an ESXi host and create virtual machines
• Deploy a vCenter Server instance or VMware vCenter Server Appliance
• Configure and manage the vSphere infrastructure with the VMware vSphere®Client and the VMware vSphere Web Client
• Configure virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
• Describe and use a content library
• Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere vMotion
• Use VMware vSphere Storage vMotion to migrate virtual machine storage
• 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, vCenter Server, virtual networking, virtual storage, and other vSphere operations

VMware vSphere Fast Track [V6.0] Outline:

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Module 2: Software-Defined Data Center

• Introduce virtualization and vSphere components
• Explain the concepts of server, network, and storage virtualization
• Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
• Install and use vSphere user interfaces
• Describe the ESXi architecture and configure various ESXi settings

Module 3: Creating Virtual Machines

• Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
• Deploy a single virtual machine
• Explain the importance of VMware Tools
• Describe how to import an OVF template

Module 4: vCenter Server

• Introduce vCenter Server architecture
• Introduce vCenter Server Appliance
• Install and configure vCenter Server Appliance
• Use vSphere Web Client
• Configure VMware vCenter Single Sign-On and VMware Platform Services Controller
• Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses

Module 5: Troubleshooting vSphere

• Use a structured approach to troubleshoot issues in vSphere
• Discuss options for running vSphere commands
• Locate and use important vSphere log files

Module 6: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

• Describe, create, and manage a standard switch
• Describe and modify standard switch properties
• Describe the NIC teaming of a standard switch port group
• Describe, create, and manage a distributed switch
• Troubleshoot virtual networking

Module 7: Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

• Introduce storage protocols and device names
• Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• Create and manage VMware vSphere VMFS datastores
• Introduce VMware Virtual SAN datastores
• Troubleshoot virtual storage

Module 8: 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
• Create vApps
• Describe the types of content libraries
• Troubleshoot virtual machines and snapshots

Resource Management and Monitoring

• Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
• Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
• Configure and manage resource pools
• Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage
• Use vRealize Operations Manager to manage a software-defined data center

Module 9: vSphere HA and vSphere Fault Tolerance

• Explain the vSphere HA architecture
• Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
• Set vSphere HA advanced parameters
• Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on a virtual machine
• Describe vSphere Replication and vSphere Data Protection
• Troubleshoot vSphere HA

Module 10: Host Scalability

• Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
• Create a vSphere DRS cluster
• View information about a vSphere DRS cluster
• Troubleshoot vSphere DRS clusters

Module 11: vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance

• Describe, install, and configure vSphere Update Manager
• Describe and use host profiles
• Use baselines and remediate ESXi hosts
• Perform patch management

---

Boost your salary by obtaining your VMware Certified Professional Certification: