STATE
CITY
NSW
QLD
VIC
Sydney
PRICE
DURATION
$8,294.00 inc. GST
5 Days
Overview:
This intensive, extended-hours training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 5.5. This course combines the content of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course with advanced tasks and skills for configuring a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. The course is based on VMware® ESXi™ 5.5 and VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.5. Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware® Certified Professional 5 exam.
Students who complete this course may enroll in any of several more advanced vSphere courses.
Target Audience:
Experienced system administrators and system integrators willing to work hard to achieve superior vSphere skills with minimal time away from the office.
Pre-requisites:
Before attending this course, students must have:
System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualisation Fundamentals course for VCA-DCV certification. Show more
At Course Completion:
After completing this course, students will be able to:
Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage
Create, configure, migrate, manage, and monitor virtual machines and virtual appliances
Manage user access to the VMware® virtual infrastructure
Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage
Implement VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
Use vSphere distributed switches to scale networking
Use policy-driven storage and VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ to scale storage
Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply ESXi patches
Use VMware vSphere® Management Assistant to manage vSphere
Deploy ESXi, vCenter Server, and VMware® vCenter Server™ Appliance™
Use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Image Builder CLI to create an ESXi image
Use VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to provision ESXi hosts
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Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
Software-Defined Data Centre
Introduce virtualisation and vSphere components
Explain the concepts of server, network, and storage virtualisation
Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
Install and use vSphere user interfaces
Describe the ESXi architecture and configure various ESXi settings
Creating Virtual Machines
Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
Deploy a single virtual machine
Introduce vCenter Server architecture
Introduce vCenter Server Appliance
Install and configure vCenter Server Appliance
Using the VMware vSphere® Web Client
Configuring VMware® vCenter™ Single Sign-On™
Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
Describe, create, and manage a standard switch
Describe and modify standard switch properties
Describe the NIC teaming of a standard switch port group
Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
Introduce storage protocols and device names
Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores
Introduce VMware® Virtual SAN™ datastores
Virtual Machine Management
Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
Modify and manage virtual machines
Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
Perform VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® migrations
Create a VMware vSphere® vApp™
Access and Authentication Control
Control user access through roles and permissions
Discuss ESXi host access and authentication
Integrate ESXi with Active Directory
Resource Management and Monitoring
Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
Describe methods for optimising CPU and memory usage
Configure and manage resource pools
Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage
High Availability and Fault Tolerance
Explain the vSphere HA architecture
Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
Set vSphere HA advanced parameters
Enable vSphere FT on a virtual machine
Describe VMware vSphere® Replication
Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches, network connections, and port groups
Discuss distributed switch features, such as private VLANs, discovery protocols, VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control, NetFlow, and port mirroring
Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
Configure and manage a VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ cluster
Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together
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