VMware vSphere 7 Professional

13h 15mIntermediate2024-06-11

Authors

Rick Crisci

Technical Trainer and Information Technology Professional

Course details

Are you looking for VMware vSphere Training? Do you want to learn from an experienced trainer who makes complex concepts simple and easy to understand? Do you need to prepare for the VMware Certified Professional Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DCV) exam? In this course, Rick Crisci, a VMware Certified Instructor who has taught thousands of hours of live training directly for VMware, guides you through what you need to know about VMware vSphere 7 Professional. Explore topics including vSphere networking, storage, and monitoring tools. Find out the best ways to secure deployments. Learn about updates and upgrades, as well as how to deploy vSphere VMs and hosts. Deep dive into resource management and the Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). Build your understanding and skills for troubleshooting, backup, and recovery. Plus, explore advanced vSphere management topics. Useful instructor demos reinforce the topics you cover.

Skills covered

vSphereVMwareVirtualizationNetwork and System AdministrationOne-Off

Concepts

1. vSphere Networking

01 - VMware networking lab environment
02 - Foundations review - Virtual networking
03 - vSphere 7 standard switches
04 - vSphere 7 distributed switches
05 - Demo - Create a vSphere distributed switch
06 - Demo - Configure distributed port groups
07 - NSX-T 3.0 and vSphere 7
08 - Demo - vSphere 7 distributed switch features
09 - Demo - Configure distributed port group security settings
10 - Demo - Configure distributed port group NIC teaming and failover
11 - Demo - Configure traffic shaping on a port group
12 - Demo - Migrate VMs to a vSphere 7 distributed switch
13 - Demo - Verify network configuration in vSphere 7
14 - Network IO control (NIOC) in vSphere 7
15 - Demo - Configure network IO control (NIOC)
16 - Private VLANs
17 - Demo - Configure private VLANs in vSphere 7
18 - Demo - Configure port mirroring in vSphere 7
19 - Demo - Configure NetFlow on a vSphere distributed switch (vDS)

2. vSphere Storage

20 - VMware storage lab environment
21 - Storage performance overview
22 - VMFS and NFS datastores on vSphere 7
23 - NFS version 3 and NFS version 4.1
24 - Demo - Create an NFS datastore in vSphere 7
25 - Introduction to iSCSI storage
26 - Demo - Connect an ESXi host to an iSCSI storage array
27 - Demo - Create a VMFS6 datastore
28 - Demo - Expand a VMFS datastore
29 - Demo - Storage port bindings and Multipathing policies
30 - Dependent hardware iSCSI and ESXi 7
31 - Independent hardware iSCSI and ESXi 7
32 - Introduction to storage DRS (SDRS)
33 - Demo - Create a storage DRS cluster (SDRS) in vSphere 7
34 - vSAN vs. traditional storage arrays
35 - vSAN basic architecture
36 - vSAN disk groups
37 - Demo - vSAN network configuration for vSphere 7
38 - Demo - Create a vSAN cluster
39 - Virtual volumes (VVOL)
40 - Demo - Storage IO control (SIOC) for vSphere 7

3. vSphere Monitoring Tools

41 - VMware networking lab environment
42 - The vSphere CPU scheduler
43 - Memory virtualization
44 - Demo - VM performance charts in vSphere 7
45 - Introduction to ESXTOP in ESXi 7
46 - Demo - Using ESXTOP to monitor an ESXi 7 host

4. Securing Deployments

47 - VMware networking lab environment
48 - vCenter single sign-on (SSO)
49 - vCenter single-sign On (SSO) configuration
50 - vCenter 7 identity federation
51 - Demo - Roles and permissions for vSphere 7
52 - Demo - VM encryption for vSphere 7
53 - Demo - Secure boot and encrypted vMotion
54 - Demo - Working with the ESXi 7 host firewall
55 - Demo - Configure lockdown mode on an ESXi 7 host

5. vSphere Updates and Upgrades

56 - VMware networking lab environment
57 - Lifecycle Manager
58 - vSphere 7 update planner
59 - Demo - Assign licenses to vCenter and ESXi
60 - Demo - Install VMware tools on a single VM in vSphere 7
61 - Demo - Update VMware tools for vSphere 7
62 - Demo - Update VM virtual hardware for vSphere 7
63 - Upgrading ESXi 6.7 to ESXi 7
64 - Demo - Interactive ESXi 6.7 upgrade to ESXi 7
65 - Demo - Upgrade ESXi 6.5 to ESXi 7 using Lifecycle Manager
66 - Demo - Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance from 6.7 to 7

6. Deploying vSphere VMs and Hosts

67 - VMware networking lab environment
68 - About this Section
69 - Demo - How to Register and Un-Register a VM in vSphere 7
70 - Demo - Working with VMX Files in vSphere 7
71 - Demo - VM Advanced Settings in vSphere 7
72 - Demo - Deploying VMs using vCenter Converter
73 - Assignable Hardware
74 - Using Auto Deploy to Image ESXi Hosts

7. vSphere Resource Management

75 - VMware networking lab environment
76 - Demo - Resource reservations and limits on a vSphere 7 VM
77 - Demo - Configuring shares on a vSphere 7 VM
78 - Demo - CPU hot plug and memory hot add for VMs
79 - Resource pools and vApps
80 - Scalable shares in vSphere 7
81 - Demo - Create resource pools in vSphere 7
82 - Demo - Expandable reservations in vSphere 7
83 - Demo - Configure vApps for multi-tier applications

8. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

84 - VMware networking lab environment
85 - About this section
86 - DRS enhancements in vSphere 7
87 - Demo - Create a DRS cluster in vSphere 7
88 - Demo - DRS VM distribution and CPU over-commitment
89 - Demo - DRS Distributed Power Management (DPM)
90 - Demo - Migrating hosts and resource pools to a DRS Cluster
91 - Demo - Monitor a DRS cluster
92 - Demo - DRS 7 affinity rules, groups, and VM overrides
93 - Demo - Avoiding downtime with DRS and Maintenance Mode in vSphere 7

9. Troubleshooting, Backup, and Recovery

94 - VMware troubleshooting lab environment
95 - Troubleshooting using ESXi management agents
96 - Working with vCenter 7 logs
97 - Demo - Working with ESXi 7 host logs

10. Advanced vSphere Management

98 - VMware networking lab environment
99 - vCenter 7 multihoming
100 - Demo - Configure vCenter 7 multihoming
101 - Demo - vCenter 7 PNID and FQDN changes
102 - vCenter server profiles
103 - vCenter and dynamic DNS
104 - Demo - Precision Time Protocol in ESXi 7
105 - vSphere Cluster Quickstart
106 - Introduction to microservices
107 - Introduction to containers
108 - vSphere and Kubernetes
109 - Tanzu Kubernetes grid cluster