The VMware vSphere Professional Camp is our most popular course where students can get their hands dirty mastering VMware vSphere 6.0 inside our state-of-the-art data center. This course combines best practices and covers content from 6 of VMware’s most popular course titles into one powerful accelerated training camp.
Audience: This course is intended for new and experienced system administrators, system engineers, and system integrators with 1 to 3 years of experience working in an administration role seeking superior vSphere skills with minimal time away from the office
Prerequisites:
Participants should have system administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems and an understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals Course for VCA-DCV Certification.
Course Objectives:
- Describe the software defined data center
- Deploy an ESXi host and create a virtual machine
- Describe vCenter Server architecture
- Deploy a vCenter Server instance or VMware vCenter Server Appliance
- Use vCenter Server to manage various types of storage
- 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
- Use VMware vRealize Operations Manager to identify and solves issues through analytics and alerts
- Manage VMware vSphere High Availability 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 vSphere distributed switches to improve network scalability
- Use VMware vSphere Update Manager to apply patches
- Perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi host, virtual machines, and vCenter Server Operations
Course Outline:
- Course Introduction and Overview
- VMware Certified Professional Course Introduction
- Course Overview
- Overview of Lab and Data Center Environment
- Virtualization
- Virtualization foundation
- Exploring virtualization
- IP Addresses
- Business Opportunity
- Cloud Overview
- Introducing VMware
- VMware vSphere Editions
- VMware vSphere Features
- Building a Virtualization Platform
- Exploring vSphere Desktop Client
- Exploring Web Client
- Plan, Install, and Configure
- Planning ESXi
- Installing ESXi
- Direct Console User Interface Overview (DCUI)
- DCUI Administration Tasks
- Virtual Machine
- Planning a Virtual Machine
- Provisioning a Virtual Machine
- SCSI
- Virtual Machine Paths
- Creating a Virtual Machine Path
- Virtual Machine Appendix
- Exploring vCenter Server
- Planning vCenter Server
- Installing vCenter Server
- Configuring vCenter Server
- Manage vCenter Server
- Single Sign-On Overview
- Single Sign-On Deployment Methods
- Troubleshooting vCenter Single Sign-On
- Creating vCenter Server Folders
- Networking & Switches
- vSphere Networking Overview
- Understanding Physical Switches
- Understanding Virtual Switched
- Switch Configurations
- Standard vSwitch Settings
- More Standard vSwitch Settings
- vSphere Distributed Switches
- Managing vSphere Distributed Switches
- Troubleshooting Switches
- Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN)
- Private VLAN
- Storage
- vSphere Storage Overview
- Installing vSphere Storage
- Configuring vSphere Storage
- Storage-Fibre Channel
- Storage-VM File Systems
- Network file Systems (NFS)
- Solid State Drives
- Storage Area Network (SAN)
- Manage Virtual Machines
- Basic VM Management
- Resource Management
- Virtual Machine CPU Management
- Virtual Machine Reporting
- Provisioning and Reclamation
- VMware Converter
- Manage vSphere vApps
- vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
- DRS Clusters and Affinity Rules
- vSphere Distributed Power Management
- Clusters
- vSphere Clustering
- Microsoft Clustering
- Business Continuity
- Understanding Business Continuity
- Latency
- High Availability
- Understanding High Availability
- Configuring High Availability
- Fault Tolerance
- Templates and Clones
- Snapshots
- Backup and Disaster Management
- Backup Options
- Disaster Recovery Solution
- Memory Management
- Resource Pools
- Permissions
- Balancing Resource Utilization
- Migrating Virtual Machines
- Monitoring VMware vSphere Performance
- Performance Monitoring
- Performance Badges
- Understanding What If Options
- Performance Monitoring 3rd Party Tools
- Alarms
- Patching, Updating and Upgrading
- Patch and Update ESXi and VMs
- Upgrading ESXi and VMs
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting ESXi Hosts
- Troubleshooting Networking
- Troubleshooting Storage
- Troubleshooting VMs
- Best Practices
- Appendix
- Appendix 1- Third Party Advanced Installation Options
- Appendix 2- Distributed Switch Configuration and Management
- Appendix 3- VMware vCloud Director