VMware vSphere: Fast Track

Length 5 days
Price $10043 inc GST
Version 8.0

Course overview

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Why study this course

This five-day, extended-hours course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere® 8 management skills. Building on the installation and configuration content from our best-selling course, you will also develop advanced skills needed to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure.

Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you will install, configure, and manage vSphere 8. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organisation of any size using vSphere 8, which includes VMware ESXi™ 8 and VMware vCenter Server® 8.

Product alignment:

VMware ESXi 8.0
VMware vCenter 8.0

Please note that the start and finish times of this intensive, extended-hours course will be confirmed after discussion with your instructor on day one of your training.

Aligns to certification

VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2024 [v2]

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What you’ll learn

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

Install and configure ESXi hosts
Deploy and configure vCenter
Use the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users
Configure vCenter High Availability
Create and configure virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches
Create and configure datastores using storage technologies supported by vSphere
Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
Configure and manage a VMware Tools Repository
Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines
Manage virtual machine resource use
Migrate virtual machines with vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion
Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with vSphere High Availability and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date
Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
Use host profiles to manage VMware ESXi host compliance
Monitor the vCenter, ESXi, and VMs performance in the vSphere client

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VMware is the world leader in server virtualisation technologies. Lumify Work is the largest VCF Education Delivery Partner in Australia and New Zealand, offering training in vSphere, Aria Suite, vRealize, vSAN, NSX, and VMware Cloud Foundation courses.

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Who is the course for?

System Administrators
System Engineers

Course subjects

1. Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2. vSphere and Virtualisation Overview

Explain basic virtualisation concepts
Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
Recognise the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs
Install an ESXi host

3. vCenter Management

Recognise ESXi hosts communication with vCenter
Deploy vCenter Server Appliance
Configure vCenter settings
Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys
Create and organise vCenter inventory objects
Recognise the rules for applying vCenter permissions
View vSphere tasks and events
Create a vCenter backup schedule
Recognise the importance of vCenter High Availability
Explain how vCenter High Availability works

4. Deploying Virtual Machines

Create and provision VMs
Explain the importance of VMware Tools
Identify the files that make up a VM
Recognise the components of a VM
Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options
Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources
Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them
Clone VMs
Create customisation specifications for guest operating systems
Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries
Deploy VMs from content libraries
Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries

5. Configure and Manage vSphere Networking

Configure and view standard switch configurations
Configure and view distributed switch configurations
Recognise the difference between standard switches and distributed switches
Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches

6. Configure and Manage vSphere Storage

Recognise vSphere storage technologies
Identify types of vSphere datastores
Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing
Describe iSCSI components and addressing
Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi
Create and manage VMFS datastores
Configure and manage NFS datastores
Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies

7. Managing Virtual Machines

Recognise the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances
Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion
Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations
Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion
Take a snapshot of a VM
Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots
Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualised environment
Describe how VMs compete for resources
Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits
Recognise the role of a VMware Tools Repository
Configure a VMware Tools Repository
Recognise the backup and restore solution for VMs

8. vSphere Monitoring

Monitor the key factors that can affect a virtual machine's performance
Describe the factors that influence vCenter performance
Use vCenter tools to monitor resource use
Create custom alarms in vCenter
Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
Recognise uses for Skyline Advisor Pro

9. Deploying and Configuring vSphere Cluster

Use Cluster Quickstart to enable vSphere cluster services and configure the cluster
View information about a vSphere cluster
Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster
Recognise use cases for vSphere DRS settings
Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster
Describe how vSphere HA responds to different types of failures
Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster
Recognise the use cases for various vSphere HA settings
Configure a cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
Recognise when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance
Describe the function of the vCLS
Recognise operations that might disrupt the healthy functioning of vCLS VMs

10. ESXi Operations

Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
Recognise the benefits of using configuration profiles

11. Managing the vSphere Lifecycle

Generate vCenter interoperability reports
Recognise features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Describe ESXi images and image depots
Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and remediate ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations
Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware

12. Network Operations

Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
Describe how VMware vSphere Network I/O Control enhances performance
Define vSphere Distributed Services Engine
Describe the use cases and benefits of vSphere Distributed Services Engine

13. Storage Operations

Describe the architecture and requirements of vSAN configuration
Describe storage policy-based management
Recognise components in the vSphere Virtual Volumes architecture
Configure Storage I/O Control

Prerequisites

This course requires the following prerequisites:

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

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