VMware vSphere 5.5: Fast Track

Course details

This intensive, extended-hours and hands-on lab training course focuses on installing, configuring, managing and mastering VMware vSphere® 5.5, including VMware ESXi™ 5.5 and VMware vCenter™ 5.5. This course combines the content of our best-selling VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course with advanced scalability and performance monitoring tasks and skills needed for configuring highly available and scalable vSphere environments. Students will gain practical experience with these concepts through the completion of hands-on practice labs. Objectives include:

• Deploy, configure and manage a virtual infrastructure environment ESXi and vCenter
• Configure and manage standard and advanced ESXi networking and storage architectures
• Create, configure, migrate, manage, and monitor virtual machines and virtual appliances
• Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage of an environment and plan scalability of the environment
• Implement VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance for virtual machine protection
• Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance and large scale deployment
• 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 and monitor a vSphere environment
• Deploy ESXi, vCenter Server, and VMware® vCenter Server™ Appliance™
• Use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Image Builder CLI to create an ESXi image and use that image with VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to provision ESXi hosts

Content

• Course Introduction
• Software-Defined Data Center
• Creating Virtual Machines
• VMware vCenter Server
• Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
• Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
• Virtual Machine Management
• Access and Authentication Control
• Configure and manage resource pools
• Network Scalability
• Host Scalability
• Storage Scalability
• Patch Management
• VMware Management Resources
• Installing VMware Components
• Host and Management Scalability

Prerequisites

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
• Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course or VCA-DCV certification

Who should attend?

This course is designed for new and experienced system administrators, systems engineers and system integrators willing to work hard to achieve superior vSphere skills with minimal time away from the office