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VMware vSphere: Advanced Administration Workshop [V7]
Code:
VMW-VSAAW7
Duration:
5 Day
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$4625
USD
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This five-day course provides hands-on training to equip students with a range of skills: from performing routine VMware vSphere 7 administrative tasks to complex vSphere operations and configurations. Through lab-based activities, students are immersed in real-life situations faced by VMBeans, a fictitious company. These situations expose students to real-life scenarios faced by companies that are building and scaling their virtual infrastructure.
This course uses scenario-based lab exercises and does not provide guided step-by-step instructions. To complete the scenario-based lab exercises, you are required to analyze the task, research, and deduce the required solution. References and suggested documentation are provided.
Approximately 90% of the class is application-focused and taught through labs. The course aligns fully with the VMware Certified Advanced Professional Data Center Virtualization Deploy exam objectives.
This course is available in the following formats:
Duration: 5 Day
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Delivery Format: Virtual Classroom
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$ 4625 |
By the end of the course, students should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Enable cluster features and configure vSphere storage and networking
- Use host profiles to automate host configurations
- Use Cluster Quickstart to create a VMware vSAN enabled cluster
- Configure the VMware vCenter Server® identity provider
- Troubleshoot host connectivity and storage connectivity
- Perform lifecycle operations on vSphere components
- Implement security hardening guidelines to vSphere and virtual machines
Module 1: Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Introduction to fictitious company: VMBeans
Module 2: Creating and Configuring Management Clusters
- Enable cluster features that help to improve resource allocation and availability of virtual machines
- Use standard virtual switches to create networking in a cluster
- Recognize when to use VMware vSphere vMotion
- Recognize requirements for using iSCSI
- Identify the purpose of iSCSI multipathing
- Select the appropriate vSphere storage types to meet requirements
- Recognize when to configure ESXi NTP support
- Recognize ESXi user account best practices
- Configure ESXi host settings
- Use host profiles appropriately
Module 3: Creating and Configuring Productions Clusters
- Use Cluster Quickstart to create a vSAN enabled cluster
- Configure advanced vSphere HA settings
- Recognize the benefits of Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
- Configure the vCenter Server identity provider
- Assign specific permissions and roles to ADFS users
- Recognize how Enhanced vMotion Compatibility benefits VM mobility
- Perform a Cross vCenter Server Migration
- Use content libraries to share virtual machine templates between sites
Module 4: Troubleshooting vSphere and Backing Up Configurations
- Troubleshoot ESXi connectivity issues
- Troubleshoot iSCSI storage issues
- Troubleshoot vSphere cluster resources
- Troubleshoot VMware PowerCLI issues
- Back up vCenter Server
Module 5: Lifecycle Management
- Troubleshoot upgrade-blocking issues
- Increase logging levels on vCenter Server
- Configure a VMware Tools shared repository
- Upgrade vCenter Server
- Upgrade ESXi
- Upgrade VMware Tools
- Upgrade Virtual Machine Compatibility
- Work with VM placement rules
Module 6: vSphere Security
- Manage advanced virtual machine configurations
- Configure a key management server
- Encrypt virtual machines using vSphere VM encryption
- Secure VMs in transit with encrypted vSphere vMotion
- Identify and implement different ESXi CPU scheduler options
- Apply security hardening guidelines to ESXi hosts
- Replace vCenter Server certificates with trusted CA-signed certificates
- Deploy a new vCenter Server instance
- Reconfigure the primary network identifier for vCenter Server