When does class start/end?
Classes begin promptly at 9:00 am, and typically end at 5:00 pm.
This two-day training course is for operators and administrators who create and manage virtual machines. This course provides you with an understanding of VMware virtual machine features in VMware vSphere® 6.7. By combining lecture and hands-on labs, you gain the skills required to work effectively with VMware virtual machines.
Skills Gained
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe virtualization, virtual machines, and vSphere components
- Describe the concepts of server, network, storage, and desktop virtualization
- Deploy, configure, clone, and manage virtual machines
- Use VMware vCenter Server® to monitor virtual machine resource usage
- Use VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® to migrate virtual machines
- Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ and VMware vSphere® High Availability to optimize the performance of your vSphere virtual environment
Who Can Benefit
Technical professionals with system administration skills and operators responsible for managing virtual machines using VMware ESXi™ and vCenter Server.
Prerequisites
- System administration experience on Microsoft, Linux, and Solaris
- Understanding of basic network and storage concepts
Course Details
Product Alignment
- ESXi 6.7
- vCenter Server 6.7
Outline
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center
- Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
- Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage
- Use vSphere Client to access and manage your vCenter Server system and ESXi host
- Compare virtual machine hardware version 14 to other versions
- Identify the virtual network adapters, and describe the enhanced VMXNET3
- Compare the types of virtual disk provisioning
Creating Virtual Machines
- Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine
- Explain the importance of VMware Tools™
- Describe how to import a virtual appliance OVF template
vCenter Server
- Describe the vCenter Server architecture
- Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
- Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory
- Add data center and organizational objects to vCenter Server
- Add hosts to vCenter Server
- Discuss how to create custom inventory tags for inventory objects
- Monitor VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™
- Monitor vCenter Server Appliance for service and disk space usage
- Use vSphere alarms for resource exhaustion and service failures
Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
- Describe the virtual switch connection types
- Configure and view standard switch configurations, such as virtual machine port group, VMkernel port, VLAN, and security features
- List the features comparison of standard and distributed switches
Virtual Storage
- Describe vSphere storage technologies and datastores
Virtual Machine Management
- Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
- Enable guest operating system customization by vCenter Server
- Upgrade a virtual machine’s hardware
- Perform an instant clone of a VM
- Describe virtual machine settings and options
- Add a hot-pluggable device
- Dynamically increase the size of a virtual disk
- Add a raw device mapping (RDM) to a virtual machine
- Perform a vSphere vMotion migration
- Perform a vSphere Storage vMotion migration
Resource Management and Monitoring
- Use the performance-tuning methodology and resource monitoring tools
- Use performance charts to view and improve performance
- Monitor the key factors that can affect the virtual machine’s performance: CPU, memory, disk, and network bandwidth use
- Create alarms with condition-based triggers
- Create alarms with event-based triggers
- View and acknowledge triggered alarms
vSphere HA
- Describe the options that you can configure to make your vSphere environment highly available
- Discuss the response of vSphere HA when an ESXi host, a virtual machine, or an application fails
vSphere DRS
- Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
- Create a vSphere DRS cluster
- View information about a vSphere DRS cluster
- Remove a host from a vSphere DRS cluster
Does the course schedule include a Lunchbreak?
Lunch is normally an hour long and begins at noon. Coffee, tea, hot chocolate and juice are available all day in the kitchen. Fruit, muffins and bagels are served each morning. There are numerous restaurants near each of our centers, and some popular ones are indicated on the Area Map in the Student Welcome Handbooks - these can be picked up in the lobby or requested from one of our ExitCertified staff.
How can someone reach me during class?
If someone should need to contact you while you are in class, please have them call the center telephone number and leave a message with the receptionist.
What languages are used to deliver training?
Most courses are conducted in English, unless otherwise specified. Some courses will have the word "FRENCH" marked in red beside the scheduled date(s) indicating the language of instruction.
What does GTR stand for?
GTR stands for Guaranteed to Run; if you see a course with this status, it means this event is confirmed to run. View our GTR page to see our full list of Guaranteed to Run courses.
How do I find an ExitCertified training location?
We have training locations across the United States and Canada. View a full list of classroom training locations.
Which delivery formats are available?
At ExitCertified we offer training that is Instructor-Led, Online, Virtual and Self-Paced.
Does ExitCertified deliver group training?
Yes, we provide training for groups, individuals and private on sites. View our group training page for more information.
Does ExitCertified deliver group training?
Yes, we provide training for groups, individuals, and private on sites. View our group training page for more information.
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