Description

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

This training is aimed at system administrators and engineers having to install, configure and manage VMware vSphere v6 or VMware vSphere 5.5.

Prerequisites

• Have experience administering Windows or Linux operating systems.
• Have a good understanding of the concepts presented in the fundamental courses on VMware Data Center virtualization.

Training objectives

• Describe the software-defined data center
• Deploy an ESXi host and create virtual machines
• Describe the vCenter Server architecture
• Deploy a vCenter Server or VMware vCenter Server Appliance
• Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host
• Configure and manage a vSphere infrastructure with VMware vSphere Client and VMware vSphere Web Client
• Configure virtual networks, 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 utilization and manage resource pools
• Use VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance

Training program

• DATA CENTER SOFTWARE-DEFINED
  • Introduce data center components softawrae-defined
  • Describe where vSphere fits into the Cloud architecture
  • Install and use the vSphere client
  • ESXi overview
  • Creating virtual machines
  • Introduce virtual machines, hardware, and virtual machine files
  • Create and work with a virtual machine
• VCENTER SERVER
  • Introduce the vCenter Server architecture
  • Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
  • Install and use vSphere Web Client
  • Manage appliance objects 'vCenter Server inventory and licenses
  • Benefits of vMotion compatibility
• CONFIGURATION AND MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL NETWORKS
  • Describe, create and manage standard switches
  • Describe and modify the properties of standard switches
  • Configure load balancing algorithms for virtual switches
  • Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches, network connections, and port groups
• CONFIGURING AND MANAGING VIRTUAL STORAGE
  • Introduce storage protocols and device names
  • Discuss ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel storage
  • Create and manage vSphere datastores VMFS
  • Introduction to VMware Virtual SANs
• MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINES
  • Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
  • Modify and manage virtual machines
  • Improve vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
  • Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
  • Create a VMware vApp
  • Introduce the various content library types and how to deploy and use them
• RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING
  • Introduce virtual processor and memory concepts
  • Configure and manage resource pools
  • Describe methods for optimizing processors and utilization memory
  • Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage
  • Create and use alarms to report certain event conditions
  • Introduce vRealize Operations Manager for Data Center Monitoring and Management
• HIGH AVAILABILITY AND FAULT TOLERANCE
  • Introduce the vSphere High Availability architecture
  • Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
  • Use advanced vSphere High Availability settings
  • Introduce vSphere fault tolerance
  • Enable fault tolerance on virtual machines
  • Describe VMware vSphere replication
  • Use vSphere Data Protection to back up and restore data
• SCALABLE
  • Describe vSphere DRS cluster features
  • Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster
  • Work with affinity and anti-affinity rules
  • Using HA and DRS together
• MANAGING VSPHERE UPDATES AND HOST MAINTENANCE
  • Use vSphere Update manager to manage ESXi patches
  • Install vSphere Update Manager and vSphere Update Manager plug-in
  • Create patch baselines
  • Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
  • Analyze and upgrade hosts
• INSTALLATION DES COMPOSANTS VMWARE
  • Introduce the ESXi installation
  • Describe the prerequisites for booting ESXi from the SAN
  • Introduce vCenter Server deployment options
  • Describe the hardware, software and database requirements for vCenter Server
  • Install vCenter Server