VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (Version 6.0) - TED Learning

Course Content

This hands-on training course VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage is our best-selling course. It features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 6, which includes VMware ESXi 6 and VMware vCenter Server 6.

This course will give you a solid understanding of how to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. This course is based on versions of ESXi 6.0 and vCenter Server 6.0.

Who should attend?

• System Administrator
• Systems Engineer
• Data Center Operations Professionals
• Technology Professionals
• Systems Operators responsible for ESXi and vCenter Server

Course Outline

Module 1 : Software-Defined Data Center

• Introduce components of the software-defined data center
• Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
• Install and use vSphere Client
• Overview of ESXi

Module 2: Creating Virtual Machines

• Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
• Create and work with virtual machines

Module 3: vCenter Server

• Introduce the vCenter Server architecture
• Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
• Install and use vSphere Web Client
• Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
• Explain the benefits of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility

Module 4: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

• Describe, create, and manage standard switches
• Describe and modify standard switch properties
• Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms
• Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches, network connections, and port groups

Module 5: Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

• Introduce storage protocols and storage device names
• Discuss ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores
• Introduce VMware Virtual SAN

Module 6 : Virtual Machine Management

• Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
• Modify and manage virtual machines
• Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
• Create a vApp
• Introduce the various types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them

Module 7 : Resource Management and Monitoring

• Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
• Configure and manage resource pools
• Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
• Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage
• Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events
• Introduce vRealize Operations Manager for data center monitoring and management

Module 8 : vSphere HA and vSphere Fault Tolerance

• Explain the vSphere HA architecture
• Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
• Use vSphere HA advanced parameters
• Introduce vSphere Fault Tolerance
• Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines
• Introduce vSphere Replication
• Use vSphere Data Protection to back up and restore data

Module 9 : vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance

• Use vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi patching
• Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in
• Create patch baselines
• Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
• Scan and remediate hosts

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