VMware vSphere: Skills for Operators [V6.7]
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Duration
2 Days
Modality
Live Online
Course code
EDU-VSO67-OE
Course 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.
Course Objectives
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
Target Audience
Technical professionals with system administration skills and operators responsible for managing virtual machines using VMware ESXi™ and vCenter Server.
Prerequisites
This course has the following prerequisites:
• System administration experience on Microsoft, Linux, and Solaris
• Understanding of basic network and storage concepts
Product Alignment
- ESXi 6.7
- vCenter Server 6.7
Target Audience
Technical professionals with system administration skills and operators responsible for managing virtual machines using VMware ESXi™ and vCenter Server.
Prerequisites
This course has the following prerequisites:
• System administration experience on Microsoft, Linux, and Solaris
• Understanding of basic network and storage concepts
Product Alignment
- ESXi 6.7
- vCenter Server 6.7
Module Breakdown - For a course module breakdown click here
Module 1
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Module 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
Module 3
Creating Virtual Machines
- Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine
- Explain the importance of VMware Tools™
- Describe how
Module 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 ApplianceTM
- Monitor vCenter Server Appliance for service and disk space usage
- Use vSphere alarms for resource exhaustion and service failures
Module 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
Module 6
Virtual Storage
- Describe vSphere storage technologies and datastores
Module 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
Module 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
- View and acknowledge triggered alarms
Module 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
Module 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
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