Course Content
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Introduction to VMware Virtualization
- Introduce virtualization, virtual machines, and vSphere components
- Explain the concepts of server, network, and storage virtualization
- Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
- Install and use vSphere user interfaces
Creating Virtual Machines
- Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
- Deploy a single virtual machine
VMware vCenter Server
- Introduce the vCenter Server architecture
- Introduce VMware vCenter Server Appliance
- Configure and manage vCenter Server Appliance
- Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
- Describe, create, and manage a standard virtual switch
- Describe and modify standard virtual switch properties
- Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms
Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
- Introduce storage protocols and device names
- Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Create and manage vSphere datastores
- Deploy and manage VMware vSphere Storage Appliance
Virtual Machine Management
- Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
- Modify and manage virtual machines
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
- Perform VMware vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion migrations
- Create a VMware vSphere vApp
Data Protection
- Discuss a strategy for backing up ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
- Introduce VMware Data Recovery
- Discuss solutions for backing up virtual machines efficiently
Access and Authentication Control
- Control user access through roles and permissions
- Configure and manage the ESXi firewall
- Configure ESXi lockdown mode
- Integrate ESXi with Active Directory
- Introduce VMware vShield Zones
Resource Management and Monitoring
- Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
- Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
- Configure and manage resource pools
- Monitor resource usage using vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms
High Availability and Fault Tolerance
- Introduce the new VMware vSphere High Availability architecture
- Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
- Introduce VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance
Scalability
- Configure and manage a VMware vSphere
- Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster
- Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
- Use vSphere HA and DRS together
Patch Management
- Use Update Manager to manage ESXi patching
- Install Update Manager and the Update Manager plug-in
- Create patch baselines
- Scan and remediate hosts
Installing VMware Components
- Introduce ESXi installation
- Describe boot-from-SAN requirements
- Introduce vCenter Server deployment options
- Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
- Install vCenter Server (Windows-based)
Labs
- Installing VMware vSphere Graphical User Interfaces
- Configuring VMware ESXi
- Working with Virtual Machines
- Using VMware vCenter Server
- Standard Virtual Switches
- Accessing ISCSI Storage
- Accessing IP Storage
- Managing VMware vSphere VMFS
- Using Templates and Clones
- Modifying a Virtual Machine
- Migrating Virtual Machines
- Managing Virtual Machines
- Managing vApps
- Access Control
- User Permissions
- Resource Pools
- Monitoring Virtual Machine Performance
- Using Alarms
- Using vSphere High Availability
- (Optional) Designing a Network Configuration
- Configuring VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance
- vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
- VMware vSphere Update Manager
- (Optional) Installing VMware vCenter Server
