VMFT: VMware vSphere: Fast Track (V5.5)

Description

About This Course

This intensive, extended-hours training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 5.5. This course combines the content of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course with advanced tasks and skills for configuring a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. The course is based on VMware ESXi™ 5.5 and VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.5. Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware Certified Professional 5 exam.

Prerequisites

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating system

• Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course for VCA-DCV certification

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, you should be able to do the following:

• Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage
• Create, configure, migrate, manage, and monitor virtual machines and virtual appliances
• Manage user access to the VMware virtual infrastructure
• Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage
• Implement VMware vSphere® High Availability and vSphere® Fault Tolerance (FT)
• Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
• Use vSphere distributed switches to scale networking
• Use prolicy-driven storage and VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ to scale storage
• Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply ESXi patches
• Use VMware vSphere® Management Assistant (vMA) to manage vSphere
• Deploy ESXi, vCenter Server, and VMware® vCenter Server™ Appliance™
• Use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Image Builder CLI to create an ESXi image
• Use VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy to provision ESXi hosts

 Course Outline

Lesson 1: Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics

• Course objectives

Lesson 2: Software-Defined Data Center

• Introduce virtualization 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

• Describe the ESXi architecture and configure various ESXi settings

Lesson 3: Creating Virtual Machines

• Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files

• Deploy a single virtual machine

Lesson 4: VMware vCenter Server

• Introduce vCenter Server architecture

• Introduce vCenter Server Appliance

• Install and configure vCenter Server Appliance

• Using the VMware vSphere® Web Client

• Configuring VMware® vCenter™ Single Sign-On™

• Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses

Lesson 5: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

• Describe, create, and manage a standard switch

• Describe and modify standard switch properties

• Describe the NIC teaming of a standard switch port group

Lesson 6: Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

• Introduce 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

Lesson 7: 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 VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® migrations

• Create a VMware vSphere® vApp™

Lesson 8: Access and Authentication Control

• Control user access through roles and permissions

• Discuss ESXi host access and authentication

• Integrate ESXi with Active Directory

Lesson 9: Resource Management and Monitoring

• Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts

• Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage

• Configure and manage resource pools

• Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage

Lesson 10: High Availability and Fault Tolerance

• Explain the vSphere HA architecture

• Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster

• Set vSphere HA advanced parameters

• Enable vSphere FT on a virtual machine

• Describe VMware vSphere® Replication

Lesson 11: Network Scalability

• Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches, network connections, and port groups

• Discuss distributed switch features, such as private VLANs, discovery protocols, VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control, NetFlow, and port mirroring

Lesson 12: Host Scalability

• Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance

• Configure and manage a VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ cluster

• Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility

• Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together

Lesson 13: Storage Scalability

• Describe VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Array Integration and Storage Awareness

• Explain policy-driven storage

• Add a storage policy to a virtual machine storage profile

• Introduce VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control

• Create a datastore cluster

• Configure Storage DRS

Lesson 14: Patch Management

• Use vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi patching

• Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in

• Create patch baselines

• Scan and remediate hosts

Lesson 15: VMware Management Resources

• Describe vSphere Management Assistant

• Configure vSphere Management Assistant

• Discuss the VMware vSphere® Command-Line Interface command set

• Perform command-line operations for host management, network management, storage management, and performance monitoring

Lesson 16: Installing VMware Components

• Describe vCenter Linked Mode to manage multiple vCenter Server inventories

• Introduce ESXi installation

• Describe boot-from-SAN requirements

• Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements

• Install vCenter Server (Windows-based)

Lesson 17: Host and Management Scalability

• Configure and manage VMware vSphere® Distributed Power Management™

• Use VMware vSphere® PowerCLI™

• Use vSphere ESXi Image Builder CLIto create an ESXi installation image

• Use vSphere Auto Deploy to deploy a stateless ESXi host

Hands-on Labs

Lab 1: Install VMware vSphere Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)

Lab 2: Configure VMware ESXi

Lab 3: Work with Virtual Machines

Lab 4: Use VMware vCenter Server

Lab 5: Standard Virtual Switches

Lab 6: Access ISCSI Storage

Lab 7: Access IP Storage

Lab 8: Manage VMware vSphere VMFS

Lab 9: Use Templates and Clones

Lab 10: Modify a Virtual Machine

Lab 11: Migrate Virtual Machines

Lab 12: Manage Virtual Machines

Lab 13: Manage vApps

Lab 14: Access Control

Lab 15: Resource Pools

Lab 16: Monitor Virtual Machine Performance

Lab 17: Use Alarms

Lab 18: Use vSphere High Availability (HA)

Lab 19: Configure VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance

Lab 20: vSphere Distributed Switches

Lab 21: Port Mirroring

Lab 22: vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler

Lab 23: Work with Host Profiles

Lab 24: Profile-Driven Storage

Lab 25: Manage Datastore Clusters

Lab 26: VMware vSphere Update Manager

Lab 27: Use VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)

Lab 28: Using Image Builder

Lab 29: Configure VMware vSphere Auto Deploy on a Windows vCenter Server System

Who Should Attend

• Solution architects

• System Engineers

• Network Engineers

• Network Administrators

• vSphere Administrators

• Storage Administrators

• System administrators

• VCP Candidates