VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage plus Optimize and Scale Fast Track [V6.0]

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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 Optimize and Scale, 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.

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COURSE INFORMATION

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage plus Optimize and Scale Fast Track [V6.0] Course Overview:

The VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage plus Optimize and Scale Fast Track hands-on lab training course focuses on installing, configuring, managing and mastering VMware vSphere 6.0, including VMware ESXi 6.0 and VMware vCenter 6.0. This course combines the content of our best-selling VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course with advanced scalability and performance monitoring tasks and skills needed for configuring highly available and scalable vSphere environments. Students gain practical experience with these concepts through the completion of hands-on labs.

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

Who Should Attend:

• Administrators with foundational knowledge of virtualization along with experienced system administrators, systems engineers, and system integrators willing to work hard to achieve superior vSphere skills

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage plus Optimize and Scale Fast Track [V6.0] Course Prerequisites:

Before attending this course, you must have the following:

• 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
• Hands-on experience with vSphere

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage plus Optimize and Scale Fast Track [V6.0] Course Objectives:

After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the software-defined data center
• Deploy an ESXi host and create virtual machines
• Describe the VMware 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:
• VMware vSphere VMFS
• NFS
• VMware Virtual SAN
• VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes
• 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

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage plus Optimize and Scale Fast Track [V6.0] Course Outline:

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• References and resources

Module 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

Module 3: Creating Virtual Machines

• Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
• Deploy a single virtual machine

Module 4: vCenter Server

• Introduce the vCenter Server architecture
• Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
• Use vSphere Web Client
• Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses

Module 5: 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

Module 6: Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

• Introduce storage protocols and device names
• Configure ESXi with iSCSI and NFS storage
• Create and manage VMFS datastores
• Introduce Virtual SAN datastores
• Introduce Virtual Volumes

Module 7: 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 VMware vSphere vApp(s)
• Introduce content libraries

Module 8: Access and Authentication Control

• Control user access through roles and permissions
• Discuss ESXi host access and authentication
• Integrate ESXi with Active Directory

Module 9: 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

Module 10: 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 VMware vSphere Replication
• Use vSphere Data Protection to back up and restore data

Module 11: Network Scalability

• Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches, network connections, and port groups
• Discuss distributed switch features, such as private VLANs, discovery protocols, Network I/O Control, NetFlow, and port mirroring

Module 12: Host Scalability

• Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
• Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster
• Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
• Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together

Module 13: Storage Scalability

• Describe VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Array Integration and VMware vSphere API for Storage Awareness
• Explain policy-driven storage
• Add a storage policy to a virtual machine storage profile
• Introduce vSphere Storage I/O Control
• Create a datastore cluster
• Configure vSphere Storage DRS

Module 14: 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

Module 15: VMware Management Resources

• Describe VMware vSphere Management Assistant
• Configure vSphere Management Assistant
• Discuss the VMware vSphere Command-Line Interface command set
• Perform command-line operations for host management, network management, storage management, and performance monitoring

Module 16: Installing VMware Components

• Describe vCenter Linked Mode to manage multiple vCenter Server inventories
• Introduce ESXi installation
• Describe boot-from-SAN requirements
• Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
• Install vCenter Server (Windows-based)

Module 17: Host and Management Scalability

• Configure and manage VMware vSphere Distributed Power Management
• Use VMware vSphere PowerCLI
• Use vSphere ESXi Image Builder CLI to create an ESXi installation image
• Use vSphere Auto Deploy to deploy a stateless ESXi host

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