VMware - VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.

7]

Code: EDU-VSICM67
Length: 5 days
URL: View Online

This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware
vSphere® 6.7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 6.7 and VMware vCenter Server® 6.7. This course prepares you to administer a
vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. It is the foundation for most other VMware technologies in the software-
defined data center.

Skills Gained
Describe the software-defined data center

Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure

Add ESXi hosts to a VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ instance

Manage vCenter Server Appliance

Use a local content library as an ISO store, and deploy a virtual machine

Describe vCenter Server architecture

Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host

Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware Host Client™ and VMware vSphere® Client™

Describe virtual networks with vSphere standard switches

Configure standard switch policies

Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage: VMware vSphere® VMFS, NFS, iSCSI, and RDM

Examine the features and functions of Fibre Channel and VMware vSAN™

Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots

Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion®

Migrate virtual machine storage with VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®

Monitor resource usage, and manage resource pools

Discuss the VMware vSphere® High Availability cluster architecture

Configure vSphere HA

Manage vSphere HA 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 VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches and perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual

machines, and vCenter Server operations

Identify troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency

Who Can Benefit

System administrators

System engineers

Prerequisites
System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Course Details

Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics

Course objectives

Describe the content of the course

Gain a complete picture of the VMware certification system

Familiarize yourself with the benefits of the VMware Education Learning Zone

Identify additional resources

Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center

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

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

Use vSphere Client to access and manage your vCenter Server system and ESXi host

Compare virtual machine hardware version 14 to other versions

Identify the virtual network adapters, and describe the enhanced VMXNET3

Compare the types of virtual disk provisioning

Identify the advantages of ESXi Quick Boot

Creating Virtual Machines

Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine

Explain the importance of VMware Tools™

Describe how to import a virtual appliance OVF template

Manage VMware Tools

Explain troubleshooting OS installation and VMware Tools

vCenter Server
Describe the vCenter Server architecture

Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server

Identify the vCenter Server services, components, and modules

 Access and configure vCenter Server Appliance

Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory

Describe the rules for applying permissions

Create a custom role in vCenter Server

Create a backup schedule

Restore vCenter Server Appliance from backup

Monitor vCenter Server Appliance

Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

Describe, create, and manage standard switches

Configure virtual switch security and load-balancing policies

Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches

Describe the virtual switch connection types

Describe the new TCP/IP stack architecture

Use VLANs with 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 VMware vSphere® VMFS and NFS datastores

Describe the new features of VMFS 6.5

Identify the advantages of VMware vSAN™

Describe guest file encryption

Virtual Machine Management

Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines

Modify and manage virtual machines

Clone a virtual machine

Upgrade virtual machine hardware to version 14

Remove virtual machines from the vCenter Server inventory and datastore

Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine

Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations

Create and manage virtual machine snapshots

Create, clone, and export vApps

Identify the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them

Resource Management and Monitoring

Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment

Describe what overcommitment of a resource means

Identify additional technologies that improve memory usage

Configure and manage resource pools

 Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage

Use various tools to monitor resource usage

Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events

vSphere HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance, and Protecting Data

Explain the vSphere HA architecture

Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster

Use vSphere HA advanced parameters

Enforce infrastructural or intra-app dependencies during failover

Describe vSphere HA heartbeat networks and datastore heartbeats

Examine the features and functions of vSphere Fault Tolerance

Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines

Support vSphere Fault Tolerance interoperability with vSAN

Examine enhanced consolidation of vSphere Fault Tolerance virtual machines

Examine the features and functions of vSphere Replication

vSphere DRS
Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster

Create a vSphere DRS cluster

View information about a vSphere DRS cluster

Configure virtual machine affinity, DRS groups, and VM-host affinity rules

Remove a host from a vSphere DRS cluster

vSphere Update Manager

Describe the new architecture, components, and capabilities of vSphere Update Manager

Use vSphere Update Manager to manage the patching of ESXi, virtual machines, and vApps

Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in

Create patch baselines

Use host profiles to manage host configuration compliance

Examine the features and functions of vSphere Update Manager EAM integration

Integrate vSphere Update Manager with vSphere DRS

Scan and remediate hosts

vSphere Troubleshooting
Define the scope of troubleshooting

Use a structured approach to solve configuration and operational problems

Identify troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency

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