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. Through a mix of lectures and hands-on labs, you will instal, configure, and administer vSphere 7. You will examine the characteristics that lay the groundwork for a truly scalable infrastructure and talk about when and when these characteristics are most useful. With the use of 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 conditions:
- Working knowledge of Linux or Microsoft Windows system administration.
Audience Profile
- System administrators
- System engineers
Course Objectives
The following goals should be achievable for you at the end of the course:
- Installing and setting up ESXi hosts.
- 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.
- To relocate virtual machines, use vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion.
- Create a vSphere cluster and enable vSphere High Availability and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler.
- Manage the vSphere life cycle to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date.
- Using vSphere, configure and oversee the networking and storage for a sizable, complicated business.
- Use host profiles to control VMware ESXi host compliance.
Content Outline
- Course logistics and introductions.
- The course's goals.
- Outline fundamental virtualization principles.
- 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.
- Identify the communication between ESXi hosts and vCenter.
- vCenter Server Appliance should be deployed.
- Setup vCenter options.
- 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 tasks and events in vSphere.
- Establish a schedule for vCenter backups.
- Appreciate the value of high availability for vCenter.
- Describe the operation of vCenter High Availability.
- 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 settings on distributed and conventional switches.
- Be aware of vSphere storage innovations.
- List different 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 numerous versions of VM templates in 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 memory and CPU concepts in the context of a virtualized environment.
- 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.
- Configure the cluster and enable vSphere cluster services using Cluster Quickstart.
- Check out a vSphere cluster's information.
- Describe how VM placement on cluster hosts is decided by vSphere DRS.
- Identify applications for vSphere DRS settings.
- Keep an eye on a DRS cluster for vSphere.
- Describe how vSphere HA reacts to various failure kinds.
- Be aware of the applications for various vSphere HA configurations.
- Create a cluster that is vSphere DRS and vSphere HA enabled.
- Know when to make use of vSphere Fault Tolerance.
- Describe how the vCLS works.
- Identify actions that could impede the vCLS VMs' normal operation.
- 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 VM hardware, using 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 policy-based storage management.
- Recognize the architecture of vSphere Virtual Volumes' components.
- I/O Storage Control configuration
- To manage ESXi configuration compliance, use host profiles.
- Be aware of the advantages of utilising 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.
Certification
- This course fulfils the education requirements for the following certifications:
- VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)
FAQs
A: Generally VMware provides three different types of server software
- VMware ESX Server
- VMware ESXi Server
- VMware Server
A: Different components which are used in VMware are listed below:-
- It generally consists of the lowest layer which acts as an ESX server host
- It also uses the virtual center server which keeps track of all the VM-associated images and manages them from one point
- VMware infrastructure client, enables the Client to communicate with user's applications that are running on VMware
- Web-browser are generally used to access the virtual machines
- The license server is used to prepare a server that provides licensing to the applications
- Database servers are availed to maintain a database
A: VMware High Availability has a mechanism to find a host isolated from the rest of the hosts in the cluster. In other words, it generally uses a heartbeat to communicate with another host in the cluster. When the host loses its ability to connect with others in a cluster through heartbeat, the host will be considered a Host Isolation.
A: The communication between two ESXi hosts is known as Fault logging when FT is configured between them.
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