VMware VSphere 6.5: Install, Configure & Manage

VMware VSphere 6.5: Install, Configure & Manage is a five-day course that focuses on installing, configuring and managing VMware vSphere 6.5. It includes VMware ESXi 6.5, VMware vCenter Server 6.5 and more. During the course, our instructor will guide the delegates on how to administer an infrastructure of vSphere for an organisation. In the software-defined data centre, it acts as the strong foundation for other VMware technologies.

MSP Training introduces VMware VSphere 6.5 course that provides the delegates with the knowledge and skills required to design and deploy VMware VSphere 6.5 virtual infrastructure successfully. The course includes vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center, Overview of Virtual Machines, vCenter Server, Configure and Manage Virtual Networks, Virtual Machine Management,        vSphere HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance, Protecting Data and many more.

Introduction to Course

• Introductions and course logistics
• Objectives of the Course
• Advantages of the VMware Education Learning Zone
• Get a complete picture of the VMware certification system
• Identification of additional resources

vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center

• The topology of a physical data centre
• Files and components of virtual machines
• Benefits of using virtual machines
• vSphere virtual infrastructure
• Similarities and dissimilarities between physical architectures and virtual architectures
• Purpose of ESXi and vCenter Server
• Software-defined data centre
• Private, public, and hybrid clouds

Overview of Virtual Machines

• Introduction to virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
• Importance of VMware Tools™
• PCI pass-through, Direct I/O, remote direct memory access, and NVMe
• Deploy and configure virtual machines and templates
• Identify the files that make up a virtual machine
• Latest virtual machine hardware and its features
• Virtual machine CPU, memory, disk, and network resource usage
• Identify the format of virtual machine disk

Introduction to vCenter Server

• The architecture of vCenter Server
• Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
• Use vSphere Web Client
• Backup and restore vCenter Server
• Examine vCenter Server permissions and roles
• Explain the vSphere HA architectures and features
• Access and navigate the new vSphere clients
• Examine the new vSphere authentication proxy
• Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses

Configure and Manage Virtual Networks

• Describe, create, and manage standard switches
• Configure virtual switch security and load-balancing policies
• Compare and Contrast vSphere distributed switches and standard switches
• Types of virtual switch connection
• Describe the architecture of new TCP/IP stack
• Use VLANs with standard switches

Configure and Manage Virtual Storage

• Overview of the types of storage protocols and storage device
• ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores
• Latest features of VMFS 6.5
• vSAN
• Define guest file encryption

Introduction to Virtual Machine Management

• Deploy new virtual machines by using templates and cloning
• Modification and Management of virtual machines
• Clone a virtual machine
• Upgrade virtual machine hardware to version 12
• Remove virtual machines from the vCenter Server inventory and datastore
• Customise a new virtual machine using customization specification files
• Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
• Create, clone, and export vApps
• Introduction to the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them

Resource Management and Monitoring

• Virtual CPU and memory
• Techniques of virtual memory reclamation
• Describe virtual machine over commitment and resource competition
• Configure and manage resource pools
• Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
• Use various tools for monitor resource usage
• Describe and deploy resource pools
• Set reservations, limits, and shares
• Define expandable reservations
• Schedule changes to resource settings
• Create, clone, and export vApps

Introduction to vSphere HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance, and Protecting Data

• Explain the vSphere HA architecture
• Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
• Use vSphere HA advanced parameters
• Define clusterwide restart ordering capabilities
• Enforce infrastructural or intra-app dependencies during failover
• Define vSphere HA heartbeat networks and datastore heartbeats
• vSphere Fault Tolerance
• Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines
• Support vSphere Fault Tolerance interoperability with vSAN
• Examine enhanced consolidation of vSphere Fault Tolerance virtual machines
• Introduce vSphere Replication
• Use vSphere Data Protection to back up and restore data

Overview of vSphere DRS

• Define the functions and benefits of a vSphere DRS cluster
• Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster
• Work with affinity and anti-affinity rules
• Define the new capabilities for what-if analysis and proactive vSphere DRS
• Highlight the evolution of vSphere DRS using predictive data from VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™
• Perform pre-emptive actions to prepare for CPU or memory changes
• Define the vCenter Server embedded vSphere Update Manager, VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Image Builder CLI, and VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy capabilities
• Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together for business continuity

vSphere Update Manager

• New vSphere Update Manager architecture, components, and capabilities
• Use vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi, virtual machine, and vApp patching
• Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in
• Create patch baselines
• Use host profiles to manage host configuration compliance
• Scan and remediate hosts