VMware vSphere 6: Install, Configure, Manage.

Overview
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage 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.  This course meets the prerequisite for advanced vSphere courses, which can be found at www.vmware.com/education.

Course Content

 Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Module 2: Software-Defined Data Center

• Introduce components of the software-defined data center
• Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
• Install and use vSphere user interfaces

Module 3: Creating Virtual Machines

• Introduce virtual machines, virtual hardware and virtual machine files
• Create and work with virtual machines

Module 4: VMware vCenter Server

• Introduce the vCenter Server architecture
• Deploy and configure vCenter server appliance
• Install and use vSphere Web Client
• Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
• Explain the benefits of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility

Module 5 : Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

• Describe, create and manage standard switches
• Describe and modify standard switch properties
• Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms
• Create, configure and manage vSpher distributed switches, network connections and port groups

Module 6: Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

• Introduce storage protocols and storage device names  
• Discuss ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores Introduce VMware Virtual SAN™

Module 7: Virtual Machine Management

• Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
• Modify and manage virtual machines
• Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
• Create a vApp Introduce the various types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them

Module 8: Resource Management and Monitoring

• Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
• Configure and manage resource pools
• Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage  
•  Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage
• Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events        
• Introduce vRealize Operations Manager for data center monitoring and management

Module 9: vSphere HA and vSphere Fault Tolerance

• Explain the vSphere HA architecture    
• Configure and manage a  vSphere HA cluster    
• Use vSphere HA advanced parameters
• Introduce vSphere Fault Tolerance
• Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines
• Introduce vSphere Replication Use vSphere Data Protection to back up and restore data

Module 10: Host Scalability    

• Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
• Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster
• Work with affinity and anti-affinity rules    
• Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together

Module 11: vSphere Update Manager  and  Host Maintenance    

• Use vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi patching  
•  Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere
• Update Manager plugin
• Create patch baselines
• Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
• Scan and remediate hosts

Module 12: Installing VMware Components

• Introduce ESXi installation
• Describe boot-from-SAN requirements
• Introduce vCenter Server deployment options
• Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
• Discuss installation of vCenter

Target Trainee Profile

Who Should Attend?

• System administrators
• Systems engineers
• Operators responsible for ESXi and vCenter Server

Prerequisites
System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.