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IT-N 345 - VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7]
Code | Start Date | Duration | Venue | |
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IT-N 345 | 02 December 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
IT-N 345 | 06 January 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
Course Description
This 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. It prepares participants 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.
Course Objectives
- Describe the software-defined data center
- Add ESXi hosts to a VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ instance
- Describe vCenter Server architecture
- Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host
- Examine the features and functions of Fibre Channel and VMware vSAN™
- Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion®
- Monitor resource usage, and manage resource pools
- Discuss the VMware vSphere® High Availability (vSphere HA) cluster architecture
- Manage vSphere HA and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
- Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters to improve host scalability
- Identify troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency
Who Should Attend?
- System administrators
- System engineers
- System integrators
Course Details/Schedule
Day 1
- Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center
- vSphere interaction with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage
- Using vSphere Client to access and manage vCenter Server system and ESXi host
- Virtual network adapters, and enhanced VMXNET3
- ESXi host Installation and configuration settings
- The advantages of ESXi Quick Boot
- Creating Virtual Machines
- Create, provision, and removing a virtual machine
- The importance of VMware Tools™
- Importing a virtual appliance OVF template
Day 2
- VCenter Server architecture
- Accessing and configuration of vCenter Server Appliance
- Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory
- Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server
- Create custom inventory tags
- Create a custom role in vCenter Server
- Create a vCenter Server Appliance backup schedule and restoration
- Monitoring vCenter Server Appliance
- Creating and managing standard switches
- TCP/IP stack architecture
- Using VLANs with standard switches
Day 3
- Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
- ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- VMware vSphere® VMFS and NFS datastores management
- Virtual Machine Management
- Using templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
- Creating an instant clone of a virtual machine
- Adding a hot-pluggable device
- Customizing a new virtual machine
- vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
- Virtual machine snapshots management
Day 4
- Resource Management and Monitoring
- Resource pools configuration and managements
- Optimizing CPU and memory usage
- Alarms
- vSphere HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance, and Protecting Data
- vSphere HA advanced parameters
- Infrastructural or intra-app dependencies during failover
- vSphere HA heartbeat networks and datastore heartbeats
- vSphere Fault Tolerance
- vSphere Fault Tolerance interoperability with vSAN
- vSphere Replication
Day 5
- vSphere DRS
- Creating a vSphere DRS cluster
- Configuring virtual machine affinity, DRS groups, and VM-host affinity rules
- Removing a host from a vSphere DRS cluster
- vSphere Update Manager
- Managing the patching of ESXi, virtual machines, and vApps
- vSphere Update Manager EAM integration
- vSphere Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting tools
- Important log files search
- Using vSphere Syslog Collector