VMware vSphere: Skills for Operators

This course has the following prerequisites:

•  System administration experience on Microsoft, Linux, and Solaris

•  Understanding of basic network and storage concepts

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

•  Describe virtualization, virtual machines, and vSphere components

•  Describe the concepts of server, network, storage, and desktop virtualization

•  Deploy, configure, clone, and manage virtual machines

•  Use VMware vCenter Server® to monitor virtual machine resource usage

•  Use VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® to migrate virtual machines

•  Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ and VMware vSphere® High Availability to

  optimize the performance of your vSphere virtual environment

Technical professionals with system administration skills and operators responsible for managing virtual machines using VMware ESXi™ and vCenter Server.

1  Course Introduction

•  Introductions and course logistics

•  Course objectives

2  Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center

•  Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure

•  Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage

•  Use vSphere Client to access and manage your vCenter Server system and ESXi host

•  Compare virtual machine hardware version 14 to other versions

•  Identify the virtual network adapters, and describe the enhanced VMXNET3

•  Compare the types of virtual disk provisioning

3  Creating Virtual Machines

•  Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine

•  Explain the importance of VMware Tools™

•  Describe how to import a virtual appliance OVF template

4  vCenter Server

•  Describe the vCenter Server architecture

•  Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server

•  Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory

•  Add data center and organizational objects to vCenter Server

•  Add hosts to vCenter Server

•  Discuss how to create custom inventory tags for inventory objects

•  Monitor VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™

•  Monitor vCenter Server Appliance for service and disk space usage

•  Use vSphere alarms for resource exhaustion and service failures

5  Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

•  Describe the virtual switch connection types

•  Configure and view standard switch configurations, such as virtual machine port group, VMkernel port,

  VLAN, and security features

•  List the features comparison of standard and distributed switches

6  Virtual Storage

•  Describe vSphere storage technologies and datastores

7  Virtual Machine Management

•  Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines

•  Enable guest operating system customization by vCenter Server

•  Upgrade a virtual machine’s hardware

•  Perform an instant clone of a VM

•  Describe virtual machine settings and options

•  Add a hot-pluggable device

•  Dynamically increase the size of a virtual disk

•  Add a raw device mapping (RDM) to a virtual machine

•  Perform a vSphere vMotion migration

•  Perform a vSphere Storage vMotion migration

8  Resource Management and Monitoring

•  Use the performance-tuning methodology and resource monitoring tools

•  Use performance charts to view and improve performance

•  Monitor the key factors that can affect the virtual machine’s performance: CPU, memory, disk, and network

  bandwidth use

•  Create alarms with condition-based triggers

•  Create alarms with event-based triggers

•  View and acknowledge triggered alarms

9  vSphere HA

•  Describe the options that you can configure to make your vSphere environment highly available

•  Discuss the response of vSphere HA when an ESXi host, a virtual machine, or an application fails

10  vSphere DRS

•  Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster

•  Create a vSphere DRS cluster

•  View information about a vSphere DRS cluster

•  Remove a host from a vSphere DRS cluster

Overview:

This two-day training course is for operators and administrators who create and manage virtual machines.

This course provides you with an understanding of VMware virtual machine features in VMware vSphere® 6.7. By combining lecture and hands-on labs, you gain the skills required to work effectively with VMware virtual machines.

Product Alignment

•  ESXi 6.7

•  vCenter Server 6.7