What you'll learn:
- You will see how to install and configure ESXi 6.7 according to best practices
- How to create and configure Standard Virtual Switches
- How to work with advanced vSwitch settings like Security and Jumbo Frames
- Understand and configure NFS file shares according to best practices
- How to create Virtual Machines (VMs) starting with Virtual Hardware, how to install a Guest Operating system, how to add VMware Tools and how to customize the OS according to best practices
- How to install vCenter Server Appliance and how to do post install configuration tasks such as adding vCenter to Active Directory, how to configure inventory views and how to grant AD members administrator rights over vCenter
- You will learn how to build Template VMs and how to use Templates to rapidly deploy new Virtual Machine
- You will learn about the Permission Model in vSphere 6.7 including the purpose of Roles
- You will see how to connect your ESXi host to iSCSI Shared storage, how to scan for new SAN volumes and how to review those volumes within Web Client
- How to connect VMs directly to SAN volumes using Raw Device Maps
- You will learn how to create new VMFS datastores and how to expand VMFS datastores using LUN expansion and LUN spans
- You will see how to create, monitor and use vCenter Alarms to stay ahead of inventory health, capacity and state issues
- You will learn about resource delegations using Resource Pools, how to use Reservations, Shares and Limits to ensure that resources are delegated in a predictable manner
- You will learn how to perform VM migrations, including powered off "Cold" migrations, VMotion hot migrations and Storage VMotion data migrations
- You will learn how efficiently automate resource management with Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) load balanced clusters
- You will learn how to deliver 99.99+% VM uptime with VMware High Availability clusters
- How to deliver 100% VM uptime (zero unplanned downtime) with Fault Tolerance
- You will learn how keep your ESXi hosts fully patched and updated using VMware Update Manager
- How to create, configure and migrate to vSphere Distributed Virtual Switches
- How to assign storage capabilities to a datastore (speed, replication, etc.) and how to set VM storage placement rules to ensure that your VMs always reside on correct storage
- How to create Storage Load Balanced clusters to balance storage for capacity and I/O bandwidth
- How to use IOMeter to benchmark VMs for vNetwork and vDisk performance
About This Course
Are you the kind of person who learns best by doing? Do courses with just Power Point voice-overs leave you cold?If so, then this course is for you, because the only Power Points you'll see are in the introduction and end of class lectures.
In this course, I cover vSphere 6.7 from a build it, configure it, administer it, run it , scale it perspective. 100% of this course is Hands-on Lab demos of an actual VMware vSphere 6.7 installation. In this course, I'll take you from first-principles (powering on a new server) to a completed, working Compute Load Balancing / Storage Load Balancing / Failure Recovery cluster and everything in between.
I've organized this course into Sections - that focus on major aspects of vSphere 6.7. In each Section, lectures are composed of one or more Hands-on Lab demo videos... with voice overs to explain what I am doing and why I am doing it. Ialso include narrative covering best practices, things to watch out for, issues / concerns, etc. and much more.
There are 6 free-preview lectures (first lecture of Sections 1-6) offering over 70 minutes of free content. I encourage you to watch these lectures to see if this course is for you.
Please note that this course does not provide access to live labs but does include video demonstrations of how to complete tasks using vSphere 6.7.
How to Use This Course
If you are new to vSphere or are wondering how all of the vSphere pieces fit together, start at the beginning and see how it's done. If you have vSphere experience, jump to the Section that covers exactly what you need to know.
The nice thing about this approach is that you can use it for many purposes:
Learn how to install, configure and administer a complete, working vSphere 6.7 system
Use individual lessons to learn how to do specific tasks (perhaps before you do them at work)
Compare what I've done in my environment to your environment to see if there are vSphere features that you could be using (but aren't)
Is your environment well designed and implemented? Is it configured consistently, is it scalable and is it redundant?All three are critically important and Iexplain as I go what you can do to achieve these objectives
What Does This Course Cover?
Basics: ESXi, vCenter installation, configuration
Networking:Introductory and advanced vSwitch networking including security, jumbo frames, pNIC teaming and dvSwitches
Virtual Machines:Build, configure, hot clone, rapid deployment, hot-plug vHardware and more
Storage:NFS, iSCSI, VMFS, Raw Device Maps, Profile Driven Storage, Load balanced Storage DRS clusters
Administration: ESXi and vCenter permissions and Infrastructure monitoring with Alarms
Resource Management:Resource Pools, VMotion and Storage VMotion, DRS load balanced clusters
Maximizing VM availability:vSphere HA clusters, Continuously available Fault Tolerant protected VMs
How Will This Course Benefit You?
If you are new to vSphere 6.7
See tasks in the order they are normally done
See how to do each task, step-by-step
Explanations as you go help build knowledge
If you are experienced with legacy versions of vSphere
See how to complete common tasks in vSphere 6.7 using Web interfaces
Learn about new vSphere 6.7 features and capabilities
Are you an experienced vSphere 6.7 administrator
Use this course as a vSphere 6.7 how-to-do-it reference guide
Go directly to advanced topics that you need to learn now
Review / refresh yourself before you perform tasks in production
Your Ultimate vSphere 6.7 Reference Guide
Just go to the section where I cover the material you need to learn, watch how it is done and pay attention to the best practices, tips or pitfalls I explain while I'm doing the task.
My goal in developing this course is to for you to view it as an indispensable how-to-get-it-done reference guide. So sign up and let me know if I've succeeded!
