VMware vSphere: Skills for Public Sector Administrators [V6.7]

Intended Audience:

• System administrators

• System engineers

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

• Install and configure ESXi hosts

• Deploy and configure VMware vCenter Server Appliance

• Use VMware Host Client , VMware vSphere Web Client, and VMware vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory and the vCenter Server configuration

• Create virtual networks with vSphere standard switches

• Describe the storage technologies supported by vSphere

• Configure virtual storage using iSCSI and NFS storage

• Create and manage VMware vSphere VMFS datastores

• Use vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots

• Create a content library for deploying virtual machines

• Manage virtual machine resource usage and manage resource pools

• Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion

• Describe the methods for protecting and recovering virtual machine data

• Create and manage a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler

• Use VMware vSphere Update Manager to apply patches and perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines

• Encrypt virtual machines for additional security

Prerequisites: This course has the following prerequisites:

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.

Outline: 1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics

• Course objectives

• Describe the content of this course

• Gain a complete picture of the VMware certification system

• Familiarize yourself with the benefits of the VMware Education Learning Zone

• Identify additional resources 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

• Install and configure ESXi host settings

• Identify the advantages of ESXi Quick Boot 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

• Access and configure vCenter Server Appliance

• Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory

• Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server

• Create custom inventory tags

• Describe the rules for applying permissions

• Create a custom role in vCenter Server

• Create a vCenter Server Appliance backup schedule

• Restore vCenter Server Appliance from a backup

• Monitor vCenter Server Appliance 5 Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

• Describe, create, and manage standard switches

• Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping and load-balancing policies

• Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches

• Describe the virtual switch connection types

• Describe the new TCP/IP stack architecture

• Use VLANs with standard switches 6 Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

• Identify storage protocols and storage device types

• Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage

• Create and manage VMware vSphere VMFS and NFS datastores

• Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage

• Identify the advantages of VMware vSAN 7 Virtual Machine Management

• Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines

• Modify and manage virtual machines

• Create an instant clone of a virtual machine

• Identify the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them

• Add a hot-pluggable device

• Dynamically increase the size of a virtual disk

• Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine

• Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations

• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots 8 Resource Management and Monitoring

• Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment

• Describe what overcommitment of a resource means

• Identify additional technologies that improve memory usage

• Configure and manage resource pools

• Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage

• Use various tools to monitor resource usage

• Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events 9 vSphere HA and vSphere Fault Tolerance

• Explain the vSphere HA architecture

• Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster

• Use vSphere HA advanced parameters

• Enforce infrastructural or intra-app dependencies during failover

• Describe vSphere HA heartbeat networks and datastore heartbeats

• Examine the features and functions of vSphere Fault Tolerance

• Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines

• Support vSphere Fault Tolerance interoperability with vSAN

• Examine enhanced consolidation of vSphere Fault Tolerance virtual machines

• Examine the features and functions of vSphere Replication 10 vSphere DRS

• Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster

• Create a vSphere DRS cluster

• View information about a vSphere DRS cluster

• Configure virtual machine affinity, DRS groups, and VM-host affinity rules

• Remove a host from a vSphere DRS cluster 11 vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance

• Describe the architecture, components, and capabilities of vSphere Update Manager

• Use vSphere Update Manager to manage the patching of ESXi, virtual machines, and vApps

• Examine the features and functions of vSphere Update Manager EAM integration

• Integrate vSphere Update Manager with vSphere DRS 12 Securing Virtual Machines

• Set up encryption in your vSphere environment

• Encrypt virtual machines

• Encrypt core dumps

• Enable encrypted vSphere vMotion

• Describe support for virtual machine security features, such as UEFI secure boot, vTPM, and virtualization- based security