VMware VSphere: Fast Track [V6]

The VMware VSphere: Fast Track [V6] course equips the delegates with the essential knowledge and skills required to install, configure, troubleshoot and manage VMware vSphere 6. The course enables the delegates to maintain highly available and scalable vSphere environments successfully. This comprehensive course focuses on all contents of VMware vSphere. The course empowers the delegates with the technical know-how to manage and troubleshoot VMware vSphere 6, VMware vCenter Server 6 and VMware ESXi 6. Along with the instructor training, the course also provides experiential lab illustrations. Throughout the course, the delegates will be introduced to the course logistics, software-defined data center, virtual machine hardware, vCenter Server and troubleshoot issues in vSphere. The course also covers configuration and management of virtual networks and virtual storage, virtual machine management, resource management and monitoring.       

The VMware VSphere: Fast Track [V6] course is beneficial for delegates who want to gain excellent vSphere skills in a short span of time away from the office. Design and deploy a manageable and secure VMware vSphere 6.0 virtual infrastructure with our VMware vSphere® 6.0 virtual infrastructure course. This intensive training program provides essential information about the benefits and risks of available design alternatives, thus helps the delegates in making sound design decisions.    

Introduction to course

• Introduction
• Course logistics
• Course Objectives

Software-Defined Data Center

• Define virtualization
• Explain vSphere components
• Describe the concepts of storage virtualization, server and network
• Install and use vSphere user interfaces
• Explain the fitting of vSphere into the cloud architecture
• Explain the ESXi architecture
• Configure various ESXi settings

Creating Virtual Machines

• Describe virtual machines
• Explain virtual machine files and virtual machine hardware
• Set up a single virtual machine
• Importance of VMware Tools
• Import an OVF template

vCenter Server

• Describe vCenter Server architecture
• Describe vCenter Server Appliance
• Install and configure vCenter Server Appliance
• Use vSphere Web Client
• Configure VMware vCenter Single Sign-On and VMware Platform Services Controller
• Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses

Troubleshooting vSphere

• Troubleshoot issues in vSphere using a structured approach
• Explain options for running vSphere commands
• Locate and use important vSphere log files

Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

• Describe a standard switch
• Create and manage a standard switch
• Describe and modify standard switch properties
• Describe the NIC teaming of a standard switch port group
• Describe a distributed switch
• Create and manage a distributed switch
• Troubleshoot virtual networking

Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

• Describe storage protocols and device names
• Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS and Fibre Channel storage
• Create and manage VMware vSphere VMFS datastores
• Introduce VMware Virtual SAN datastores
• Troubleshoot virtual storage

Virtual Machine Management

• Deploy virtual machines using templates and cloning
• Modify and manage virtual machines
• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
• Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
• Create vApps
• Explain content libraries types
• Troubleshoot virtual machines and snapshots

Resource Management and Monitoring

• Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
• Explain methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
• Configure and manage resource pools
• Monitor resource usage using vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms
• Manage a software-defined data center using vRealize Operations Manager

vSphere HA and vSphere Fault Tolerance

• Describe the architecture of vSphere HA
• Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
• Set vSphere HA advanced parameters
• Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on a virtual machine
• Explain vSphere Replication and vSphere Data Protection
• Troubleshoot vSphere HA

Host Scalability

• Create a vSphere DRS cluster
• View information about a vSphere DRS cluster
• Describe the vSphere DRS cluster functions
• Troubleshoot vSphere DRS clusters

vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance

• Describe, install, and configure vSphere Update Manager
• Describe and use host profiles
• Use baselines and remediate ESXi hosts
• Perform patch management