VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting [V8]

Course Overview

 This extended five-day course introduces you to basic through advanced VMware vSphere® 8 management techniques. You will gain the advanced skills required to administer and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure by building on the installation and configuration content from our best-selling course. You will instal, configure, and administer vSphere 7 using a combination of lectures and practical labs. The components that lay the groundwork for a fully scalable infrastructure will be examined, and you'll talk about when and where they have the most impacts. Through this course, you will be able to manage a vSphere infrastructure for any size of business using vSphere 8, which comes with VMware ESXiTM 8 and VMware vCenter Server® 8.

Prerequisites

This course has the following requirements:

  • System administration expertise with Linux or Microsoft Windows Certification
  • This course fulfils the education requirements for the following certifications:
  • VMware- Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)

Audience Profile

  • System administrators
  • System engineers 

Course Goals

By the end you should be able to complete the following goals:

  • Installing and setting up hosts for ESX.
  • Install and set up vCenter.
  • To construct the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users, utilise the vSphere Client.
  • Set up high availability for vCenter.
  • Utilize distributed switches and regular switches in vSphere to build and configure virtual networks.
  • Utilizing storage options supplied by vSphere, create and set up data stores.
  • To build virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots, use the vSphere Client.
  • Create and maintain a repository for VMware tools.
  • Create content libraries to deploy virtual machines and manage templates.
  • Control resource usage on virtual machines.
  • Use vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion to move virtual machines.
  • Establish and set up a vSphere cluster with vSphere High Availability and vSphere Distributed enabled.
  • Resource manager
  • Keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and the virtual machines up to date by managing the vSphere life cycle.
  • Set up and manage the networking and storage for a large, complex company using vSphere.
  • To manage VMware ESXi host compliance, use host profiles.
  • Use the vSphere Client to track the performance of vCenter, ESXi, and VMs.

Content Outline

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives
  • Define the fundamental ideas of virtualization.
  • Describe where vSphere fits into the infrastructure of the software-defined data centre and the cloud.
  • Identify the user interfaces for vSphere access.
  • Describe the interactions between vSphere and CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs.
  • Set up a host for ESXi.
  • Recognize the interaction of the ESXi host with vCenter.
  • vCenter Server Appliance should be deployed.
  • Setup the vCenter settings.
  • Manage licence keys by adding them and using the vSphere Client.
  • vCenter inventory objects should be created and arranged.
  • Be aware of the requirements for requesting vCenter permissions.
  • View vSphere tasks and events
  • Create a vCenter backup schedule
  • Recognize the importance of vCenter's High Availability
  • Describe how the vCenter High-Availability works
  • Set up and see preset switch configurations.
  • Configure distributed switch setups and view them.
  • Be able to distinguish between distributed switches and conventional switches.
  • Describe how to configure networking policies on distributed and conventional switches.
  • Be aware of vSphere storage innovations.
  • Classify the various vSphere datastore types.
  • Describe the addressing and components of Fibre Channel.
  • Describe the addressing and iSCSI components.
  • On ESXi, configure iSCSI storage.
  • Establishing and running VMFS datastores.
  • Set up and control NFS datastores.
  • Talk about iSER and NVMe support in vSphere.
  • Build and set up VMs.
  • Describe the significance of the VMware Tools.
  • List the files that make up a virtual machine.
  • Identify the parts of a VM.
  • Explore the vSphere Client's menus and settings for VMs.
  • Adjust virtual machines by dynamically adding resources.
  • Create VM templates, then use them to deploy VMs.
  • VM clones.
  • Develop guidelines for guest operating systems' customisation.
  • Establish libraries of local, released, and paid content.
  • Use content libraries to deploy VMs.
  • Manage many VM template iterations in the content libraries.
  • Be aware of the different VM migrations you can carry out both within and between vCenter instances.
  • Move virtual machines using vSphere vMotion.
  • Describe Enhanced vMotion Compatibility's function during migrations.
  • Move virtual machines using vSphere Storage vMotion.
  • Take a VM snapshot.
  • Control, group, and remove snapshots.
  • Explain the concepts of CPU and memory in a virtualized system.
  • Describe the resource competition between VMs.
  • Specify the reservations, restrictions, and shares for CPU and memory.
  • Be aware of a VMware Tools Repository's function.
  • Set up a repository for VMware tools.
  • Identify the VM backup and restore solution.
  • To activate vSphere cluster services and set up the cluster, use Cluster Quickstart.
  • Look for details on a vSphere cluster.
  • Describe how vSphere DRS chooses where to place VMs on cluster hosts.
  • Recognize vSphere DRS settings' use cases.
  • Keep an eye on a vSphere DRS cluster.
  • Describe the various failure categories and how vSphere HA handles them.
  • Specify settings for vSphere HA cluster network redundancy configuration.
  • Identify the applications for different vSphere HA configurations.
  • Set up a cluster with vSphere DRS and HA enabled.
  • Be able to apply vSphere Fault Tolerance when appropriate.
  • Describe the vCLS's purpose.
  • Identify actions that could prevent vCLS VMs from operating normally.
  • Produce interoperability reports for vCenter.
  • Identify vSphere Lifecycle Manager features.
  • Describe image depots and ESXi images.
  • In a vSphere cluster, enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager.
  • Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to correct ESXi hosts and validate ESXi host compliance with a cluster image.
  • Describe the automatic suggestions made by vSphere Lifecycle Manager.
  • To upgrade VMware Tools and Virtual Machines, use vSphere Lifecycle Manager.
  • Manage and configure distributed switches in vSphere.
  • Describe the performance improvements made by VMware vSphere Network I/O Control.
  • Describe the distributed services engine for vSphere.
  • Describe the vSphere Distributed Services Engine's use cases and advantages.
  • Describe the vSAN configuration's architecture and requirements.
  • Describe management based on storage policy.
  • Recognize the architecture of vSphere Virtual Volumes' components.
  • I/O Storage Control configuration.
  • Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
  • Recognize the benefits of using configuration profiles
  • Keep track of the critical elements that influence a virtual machine's performance.
  • Specify the variables affecting vCenter performance.
  • Use the vCenter tools to keep an eye on resource usage.
  • Design unique alerts in vCenter.
  • Describe VMware Skyline's features and advantages.
  • Identify applications for Skyline Advisor Pro.

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