Learn vSphere, the cloud computing virtualization platform from VMware, even if you are a beginner.
Overview
Syllabus
1. Configure and Manage vSphere and ESXi 7
- Overview
- Introduction
- Getting your VMware certification
- Introduction to virtualization
- vCenter 7 architecture and the Platform Services Controller (PSC)
- Demo: Installing ESXi 7 using the interactive installation
- Demo: Deploy the vCenter Server Appliance 7
- Demo: vCenter 7 VAMI
- Demo: Add ESXi hosts to the vCenter inventory
- Demo: Licensing vCenter and ESXi
- Basic ESXi host configuration
- Demo: Create a content library
- VMware Flings
- Chapter 2: Introduction
- Virtual networking in vSphere 7
- vSphere standard switch features
- vSphere distributed switches
- Virtual switch features in vSphere 7
- Demo: Create a vSphere 7 standard switch
- Demo: Create a vSphere 7 distributed switch
- Demo: Configure virtual switch features in vSphere 7
- Storage foundations in vSphere
- Storage virtualization concepts
- VMFS and NFS concepts
- NFS version 3 versus 4.1
- Demo: Create an NFS datastore in vSphere 7
- Fiber channel storage
- LUN masking and zoning
- Fiber channel over ethernet
- iSCSI storage concepts for vSphere 7
- Demo: Configure iSCSI in vSphere 7
- Introduction to Virtual SAN (vSAN)
- VSAN versus traditional storage
- Overview
- Demo: Create a virtual machine (VM)
- Demo: Install VMware tools
- Demo: Update VMware tools on groups of VMs
- Demo: Inflate a thin-provisioned VMDK
- Demo: Configure a vApp for multitier applications
- Demo: Working with templates
- Demo: Clone a VM
- Demo: Import an OVF template
- Snapshots
- Demo: Working with snapshots
- Demo: Managing VM templates in an content library
- Migrate your VMs
- vMotion
- vSphere 7 vMotion enhancements
- Demo: Configuring vMotion in vSphere 7
- Demo: Performing a vMotion migration in vSphere 7
- Demo: Configure a scheduled vMotion in vSphere 7
- Storage vMotion concepts
- Storage vMotion improvements in vSphere 7
- Demo: Performing a storage vMotion in vSphere 7
- Demo: Shared nothing vMotion in vSphere 7
- High-availability architecture in vSphere 7
- Basic vSphere high-availability architecture
- High-availability (HA) datastore heartbeats and host isolation
- HA failure scenarios
- Demo: Basic high-availability configuration
- vCenter high availability for vSphere 7
- Demo: vCenter 7 manual backup to an SMB share
- Demo: vCenter 7 scheduled backups and retention policies
- Fault tolerance
- Demo: Fault tolerance
- Overview
- Understanding vSphere resource pools
- Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) concepts
- DRS and vSphere 7: What's new?
- DRS affinity rules
- DRS and vCenter
- DRS and maintenance mode
- DRS and automation levels
- DRS and resource fragmentation
- Demo: Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
- Introduction
- Demo: Verify VM network configuration
- Demo: Verify host networking in ESXi 7
- VMware Skyline
- Gathering and uploading logs
- Demo: Working with alarms
Taught by
Rick Crisci