Chapter 1: Course Introduction and Methodology (HOL)
Chapter 2: Virtualization Overview in vSphere 6.7 and 6.5
- Virtualization & Cloud Overview
- Other VMware and 3rd Party Virtualization Products
- What’s New in vSphere 6.7 and 6.5 Overview
Chapter 3: Planning and Installing ESXi (VMware vSphere Hypervisor)
- Planning ESXi Host Deployment
- vSphere 6.7 and 6.5 Deployment Guidelines
- ESXi Image Builder
- vSphere Auto Deploy (GUI & Command Line)
- ESXi Host Install (HOL)
- Configuring Hostname Resolution and NTP (HOL)
- Troubleshooting ESXi Host
Chapter 4: Using Tools to Administer a VMware® Environment
- Overview of 3rd Party Tools
- ESXi Management (vSphere Client, NEW V6.5 esxcli, vCLI, vMA, Putty, PowerCLI, Web) (HOL)
- Linux Command Review
- Troubleshooting the vSphere Client
Chapter 5: vCenter™ Server and Licensing
- Demystifying vSphere Licensing
- Planning vCenter Server Deployment
- vCenter Server Virtual Appliance & vCenter High Availability (VCHA)
- vCenter Server Installation (HOL)
- vSphere Web Client & new 6.5 vSphere Clients (HOL)
- vCenter Server Inventory (HOL)
- Managing vCenter Server and new File based Backup/Restore (HOL)
- Troubleshooting vCenter Server License & Database
Chapter 6: Configuring Networking
- Create & Modify Virtual Networks (HOL)
- vSphere Distributed Virtual Switches & NIOC (HOL)
- 3rd Party Distributed Switches
- Create & Modify Virtual Networks using CLI (HOL)
Chapter 7: Configuring Storage
- New Storage Features in vSphere 6.7 and 6.5
- Storage Concepts, Storage Awareness & Profile Driven Storage
- iSCSI Storage (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
- Fibre Channel Storage & Software FCoE (GUI & Command Line)
- VMFS5 Datastores & new VMFS6 features like SEsparse (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
- NFS 3 & NFS 4.1 Datastores (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
- Raw Device Mapping (RDM) (HOL)
- Solid State Disks (SSD)
- vSphere Flash Read Cache
- Storage & Management Solutions
- VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) 6.5/6.1/6.2/6.5 & vsanSparse snapshot
- VMware Virtual Volumes & VASA 3.0 (VVols)
Chapter 8: VM Creation and Configuration & Snapshots
- Create a VM (HOL)
- Create Multiple VMs, Templates & Clones (HOL)
- Virtual Appliances (HOL)
- Configuration & Use of vApps
- VMware vCenter™ Standalone Converter (P2V, V2V) (HOL)
- Manage VMs, PCI pass-through, Direct I/O, remote direct memory access, and NVMe (HOL)
- Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown (HOL)
- Virtual Machine Snapshots (HOL)
- Troubleshooting Virtual Machines
Chapter 9: Security and Permissions
- Controlling User Access and Passwords (HOL)
- ESXi Lockdown Mode
- ESXi AD Integration (HOL)
- Managing ESXi Firewalls (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
- VMware Certificate Authority (VCA) & VMware Endpoint Certificate Services
Chapter 10: Server and VM Monitoring
- Optimizing Resources
- Resource Pools
- Latency Sensitive Applications
- Performance Monitoring (HOL)
- Configuring Alarms (HOL)
- ESXi, vCenter™ Logs and syslog, NetFlow, Port Mirroring, esxtop (HOL)
Chapter 11: Advanced ESXi and vCenter™ Management
- Storage VMotion (HOL)
- Configuring VMotion (Enhanced, Cross-vCenter, Long Distance) (HOL)
- Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) (HOL)
- DRS Cluster Monitoring (HOL)
- Storage Policy Based Management
- Storage Clusters & Storage DRS (SDRS) (HOL)
- Host Profiles (HOL)
- Enhanced Linked Mode
Chapter 12: Patching and Upgrading vSphere™ vCenter™ ESXi
- Patching ESXi & VCSA (HOL)
- Patching with Update Manager (HOL)
- Upgrading & Migrations from earlier vSphere versions to vSphere 6.5
Chapter 13: Disaster Recovery, Backup and Deployment
- vSphere Replication
- Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
- High Availability (HA) & Fault Domain Manager (FDM) (HOL)
- VM Fault Tolerance
- Microsoft Clustering
- Backup Strategies
- VMware Data Protection (VDP includes Advanced) (HOL)
- Third Party Backups (HOL)
This course is intended for:
- Experienced system administrators
- Systems engineers
- System integrators
Before attending this course, students should have:
- System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
- Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course for VCA-DCV certification
After attending this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the software-defined data center
- Deploy an ESXi host and create virtual machines
- Describe the vCenter Server architecture
- Deploy a VMware vCenter Server™ Appliance™
- Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host
- Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with NEW VMware vSphere®
- Client™, NEW vSphere® Host Client and VMware vSphere® Web Client
- Configure virtual networks with vSphere® standard switches
- Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage
- Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, vApps and snapshots
- Describe new enhancements to NFS 4.1, VSAN 6.7 and 6.5 & Virtual Volumes
- Describe and use the content library
- Manage changes to the vSphere environment
- Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion®
- Use VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® to migrate virtual machine storage
- Monitor resource usage and manage resource pools
- Manage VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
- Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters to improve host scalability
- Describe Proactive HA, VM-level encryption, Network Aware DRS & Predictive DRS
- Use vSphere® distributed switches to improve network scalability
- Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage for a sophisticated enterprise
- Optimize the performance of all vSphere components
- Harden the vSphere® environment against security threats
- Use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Shell to manage vSphere
- Describe BC/DR solutions vSphere® Replication 6.7 and 6.5 & Site Recovery Manager
- Use NEW web based Sphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches
- Use vSphere® Data Protection appliance to backup and restores virtual machines
- Describe proper steps and pathways for upgrades of previous versions of vSphere® to 6.5 and 6.7
- Perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations