VMware vSphere v6: Install, Configure, Manage

Course details

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.

Objectives

This course is designed to teach you how to:

• Describe the software-defined data center
• Deploy an ESXi host and create virtual machines
• Describe vCenter Server architecture
• Deploy a vCenter Server instance or VMware vCenter Server™ Appliance™
• Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host
• Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware vSphere®
• 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, and snapshots
• Create a vApp
• Describe and use the content library
• Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion®
• Use VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® to migrate virtual machine storage
• Monitor resource usage and manage resource pools
• Use VMware vRealize™ Operations Manager™ to identify and solve issues through analytics and alerts
• Manage VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
• Use VMware vSphere® Replication™ and VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ to replicate virtual machines and perform data recovery
• Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters to improve host scalability
• Use vSphere distributed switches to improve network scalability
• Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches
• Perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations.

Content

This course will cover the following concepts:

• Module 1: Course Introduction
• Module 2: Software-Defined Data Center
• Module 3: Creating Virtual Machines
• Module 4: vCenter Server
• Module 5: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
• Module 6: Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
• Module 7: Virtual Machine Management
• Module 8: Resource Management and Monitoring
• Module 9: vSphere HA and vSphere Fault Tolerance
• Module 10: Host Scalability
• Module 11: vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance
• Module 12: Installing VMware Components

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course are:

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

Who should attend?

This course is intended for:

• System administrators
• System engineers