Date : 5 October 2022

By : Khawar Nehal (khawar@atrc.net.pk)

Course Description:

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

This course is the foundation for most of the other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.

Product Alignment

VMware ESXi 7.0

VMware vCenter Server 7.0

Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

Describe the software-defined data center (SDDC)

Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure

Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline

Install and configure ESXi hosts

Deploy and configure VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™

Use VMware vSphere® Client™ to manage the vCenter Server inventory and the vCenter Server configuration

Manage, monitor, back up, and protect vCenter Server Appliance

Create virtual networks with vSphere standard switches

Describe the storage technologies supported by vSphere

Configure virtual storage using iSCSI and NFS storage

Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores

Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots

Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library

Manage virtual machine resource use

Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®

Create and manage a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™

Discuss solutions for managing the vSphere life cycle

Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines

Certifications

Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification:

VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)

Target Student:

Students enrolling in this course should be either system administrators or planning to work in the field of system administration.

Prerequisites:

To ensure your success, we recommend you have some working knowledge of computer usage.

The basics are covered in the our OCDL course.

Open Computer Driving License (OCDL)

Also basic system administration knowledge of a computers, networks and operating systems is also a prerequisite for this course.

Outline

Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics

Course objectives

Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center

Explain basic virtualization concepts

Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure

Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage

Recognize the user interfaces for accessing the vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts

Describe the ESXi host architecture

Navigate the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) to configure an ESXi host

Recognize ESXi host user account best practices

Install an ESXi host

Use VMware Host Client™ to configure ESXi host settings

Describe how to proactively manage your vSphere environment using VMware Skyline

Virtual Machines

Create and provision a virtual machine

Explain the importance of VMware Tools™

Install VMware Tools

Identify the files that make up a VM

Recognize the components of a VM

Recognize virtual devices supported by a VM

Describe the benefits and use cases for containers

Identify the parts of a container system

vCenter Server

Describe the vCenter Server architecture

Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server

Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance

Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory

Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server

Use roles and permissions to enable users to access objects in the vCenter Server inventory

Back up vCenter Server Appliance

Monitor vCenter Server tasks, events, and appliance health

Use VMware vCenter Server® High Availability to protect a vCenter Server Appliance

Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

Create and manage standard switches

Describe the virtual switch connection types

Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping, and load-balancing policies

Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches

Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

Identify storage protocols and storage device types

Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage

Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores

Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage

Recognize the components of a VMware vSAN™ configuration

Virtual Machine Management

Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines

Modify and manage virtual machines

Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library

Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine

Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations

Describe the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility feature

Create and manage virtual machine snapshots

Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Replication™

Describe the benefits of VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Data Protection

Resource Management and Monitoring

Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment

Describe what overcommitment of a resource means

Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage

Use various tools to monitor resource use

Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events

vSphere Clusters

Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster

Create a vSphere DRS cluster

Monitor a vSphere cluster configuration

Describe options for making a vSphere environment highly available

Explain the vSphere HA architecture

Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster

Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance

Describe the function of the vSphere® Cluster Service

vSphere Lifecycle Management

Recognize the importance of vCenter Server Update Planner

Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works

Describe how to update ESXi hosts using baselines

Validate ESXi host compliance using a cluster image

Describe how to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware

Describe VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ and VMware vSAN™ integration

Contact Information

What is included :

40 hours of teacher in the classroom.

Up to 20 participants.

10 Assignments

10 Quizzes

3 Vivas

1 Online Certificate

1 Printed certificate

Fees

PKR 100,000 per participant

Duration : 5 days. 9 to 5 classroom.

Tentative time for course to run : October or November 2022