VMware Education - VMware Certified Professional
Course
In Cardiff
Description
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Type
Course
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Location
Cardiff (Wales)
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Duration
4 Days
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Start date
Different dates available
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Subjects
- Logistics
- Management
- Monitoring
- Server
- IT
- IT Management
Course programme
Introduction
This hands-on training course builds your skills in installing, configuring, and managing the VMware vSphere 6. This includes the components; VMware ESXi™ 6 and VMware vCenter Server™ 6. Candidates gain practical experience with these concepts through the completion of hands-on labs.
Pre-Requisites
- Must have experience with providing system administration on Windows or Linux systems
- Ideally have taken the VMware Data Center Virtualisation Fundamental course or have equivalent experience.
Who Should Attend
- System administrators and engineers responsible for deploying the VMware® virtual desktop infrastructure
Upon completion of this course, candidates will be able to:
- Comprehend data centers which are software-defined
- The art of deploying a host or virtual machine
- Understand how vCenter Servers are made up and how to deploy one
- How to manage an ESXi host
- Manage and configure virtual networks
- Manage clones and snapshots
- Using content libraries
- Managing host storage with vCenter Server
- Create a vApp
- Migrate a virtual machine using VMware
- Manage resources and resource usage
- Manage fault tolerance and high availability with VMware vSphere
- Replicate virtual machines and recover data
- Improve scalability with hosts using VMware vSphere
- Improve network scales
- Apply troubleshooting and patches using vCenter operations
Course Content
Course Introduction
- Introductions and logistics of the course
- Course objectives
- References and resources
Software-Defined Data Center
- Data center components
- Cloud architecture and vSphere
- Installing and using vSphere Client
- Overview of ESXi
Creating Virtual Machines
- Virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
- Creating and working with virtual machines and templates
vCenter Server
- vCenter Server architecture
- Deploying and configuring vCenter Server Appliance
- Using vSphere Web Client
- Managing vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
- Describing, creating, and managing standard switches
- Configuring virtual switch security and load-balancing policies
- Creating, configuring, and managing vSphere distributed switches, network connections, and port groups
Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
- Storage devices and hosts
- ESXi hosts using iSCSI and NFS storage
- Creating and managing VMFS and NFS datastores
- VMware Virtual SAN™
- Virtual Volumes
Virtual Machine Management
- Deploying new virtual machines with templates and cloning
- Virtual machines management
- Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
- Creating and managing virtual machine snapshots
- Creating vApps
- Deploying and using content libraries
Resource Management and Monitoring
- Virtual CPU and memory concepts
- Configuring and managing resource pools
- How to optimise CPU and memory usage
- Monitoring resource usage
- Creating and using alarms to report certain conditions or events
- Identify and troubleshoot virtual machine resource issues
- Introduce vRealize Operations Manager for data center monitoring and management
vSphere HA and vSphere Fault Tolerance
- Explain the vSphere HA architecture
- Configuring and managing a vSphere HA cluster
- Use vSphere HA advanced parameters
- Introduce vSphere Fault Tolerance
- Enabling vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines
- Introduce vSphere Replication
- Restoring and backing up data with vSphere Data Protection
Host Scalability
- The functions and benefits of a vSphere DRS cluster
- Configuring and managing a vSphere DRS cluster
- Work with affinity and anti-affinity rules
- Using vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together for business continuity
vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance
- Using vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi patching
- Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in
- Creating patch baselines
- Using host profiles to manage host configuration compliance
- Scanning and remediate hosts
Installing vSphere Components
- Installing ESXi
- vCenter Server deployment options
- vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
- Installing of vCenter Server Appliance and a vCenter Server instance
Additional information
- Gain an understanding of configuring virtual switch security efficiently
- Identify information on ESXi and vApps
- Candidates will be able to back up data effectively
- GUARANTEED LOWEST PRICE IN THE INDUSTRY
- Develop knowledge on creating vSphere switches successfully
- Courses delivered by world-class training instructors in luxury venues
- Includes material and manuals
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VMware Education - VMware Certified Professional