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VMware vSphere 7 Foundations Essential Training

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Overview

Learn vSphere, the cloud computing virtualization platform from VMware, even if you are a beginner.

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
2. Configure and Manage vSphere 7 Networking
  • 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
3. Configure and Manage vSphere 7 Storage
  • 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
4. Deploy and Administer vSphere 7 VMs and Apps
  • 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
5. Using vMotion to Migrate vSphere 7 VMs
  • 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
6. Administer Availability
  • 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
7. Administer Resource Management Features in vSphere 7
  • 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)
8. Basic vSphere 7 Troubleshooting
  • 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

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