VMware vSphere 7 Foundations Essential Training

Course details

VMware vSphere is everywhere. Non-virtualized data centers are a thing of the past, and in order to stay relevant, you must understand vSphere. In this course, technical trainer and experienced IT professional Rick Cresci guides you through each major step in setting up and learning to use vSphere. Find out how to configure and manage vSphere 7 networking and storage. Learn how to deploy and administer VMs and apps, as well as how to use vMotion to migrate vSphere 7 VMs. Go over best practices to administer availability and resource management features. Plus, dive into some helpful troubleshooting tips. This course is ideal for anyone who wants to learn vSphere, including absolute beginners.

Concepts

1. Configure and Manage vSphere and ESXi 7

01 - Overview
02 - Introduction
03 - Getting your VMware certification
04 - Introduction to virtualization
05 - vCenter 7 architecture and the Platform Services Controller (PSC)
06 - Demo - Installing ESXi 7 using the interactive installation
07 - Demo - Deploy the vCenter Server Appliance 7
08 - Demo - vCenter 7 VAMI
09 - Demo - Add ESXi hosts to the vCenter inventory
10 - Demo - Licensing vCenter and ESXi
11 - Basic ESXi host configuration
12 - Demo - Create a content library
13 - VMware Flings

2. Configure and Manage vSphere 7 Networking

14 - Chapter 2 - Introduction
15 - Virtual networking in vSphere 7
16 - vSphere standard switch features
17 - vSphere distributed switches
18 - Virtual switch features in vSphere 7
19 - Demo - Create a vSphere 7 standard switch
20 - Demo - Create a vSphere 7 distributed switch
21 - Demo - Configure virtual switch features in vSphere 7

3. Configure and Manage vSphere 7 Storage

22 - Storage foundations in vSphere
23 - Storage virtualization concepts
24 - VMFS and NFS concepts
25 - NFS version 3 versus 4.1
26 - Demo - Create an NFS datastore in vSphere 7
27 - Fiber channel storage
28 - LUN masking and zoning
29 - Fiber channel over ethernet
30 - iSCSI storage concepts for vSphere 7
31 - Demo - Configure iSCSI in vSphere 7
32 - Introduction to Virtual SAN (vSAN)
33 - VSAN versus traditional storage

4. Deploy and Administer vSphere 7 VMs and Apps

34 - Overview
35 - Demo - Create a virtual machine (VM)
36 - Demo - Install VMware tools
37 - Demo - Update VMware tools on groups of VMs
38 - Demo - Inflate a thin-provisioned VMDK
39 - Demo - Configure a vApp for multitier applications
40 - Demo - Working with templates
41 - Demo - Clone a VM
42 - Demo - Import an OVF template
43 - Snapshots
44 - Demo - Working with snapshots
45 - Demo - Managing VM templates in an content library

5. Using vMotion to Migrate vSphere 7 VMs

46 - Migrate your VMs
47 - vMotion
48 - vSphere 7 vMotion enhancements
49 - Demo - Configuring vMotion in vSphere 7
50 - Demo - Performing a vMotion migration in vSphere 7
51 - Demo - Configure a scheduled vMotion in vSphere 7
52 - Storage vMotion concepts
53 - Storage vMotion improvements in vSphere 7
54 - Demo - Performing a storage vMotion in vSphere 7
55 - Demo - Shared nothing vMotion in vSphere 7

6. Administer Availability

56 - High-availability architecture in vSphere 7
57 - Basic vSphere high-availability architecture
58 - High-availability (HA) datastore heartbeats and host isolation
59 - HA failure scenarios
60 - Demo - Basic high-availability configuration
61 - vCenter high availability for vSphere 7
62 - Demo - vCenter 7 manual backup to an SMB share
63 - Demo - vCenter 7 scheduled backups and retention policies
64 - Fault tolerance
65 - Demo - Fault tolerance

7. Administer Resource Management Features in vSphere 7

66 - Overview
67 - Understanding vSphere resource pools
68 - Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) concepts
69 - DRS and vSphere 7 - What's new
70 - DRS affinity rules
71 - DRS and vCenter
72 - DRS and maintenance mode
73 - DRS and automation levels
74 - DRS and resource fragmentation
75 - Demo - Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

8. Basic vSphere 7 Troubleshooting

76 - Introduction
77 - Demo - Verify VM network configuration
78 - Demo - Verify host networking in ESXi 7
79 - VMware Skyline
80 - Gathering and uploading logs
81 - Demo - Working with alarms

VMware vSphere 7 Foundations Essential Training

Authors

Rick Crisci