VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6.5]

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
•  Describe the software-defined data center
•  Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure
•  Deploy an ESXi host 
•  Deploy VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ 
•  Use a local content library as an ISO store and deploy a virtual machine 
•  Describe vCenter Server architecture
•  Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host 
•  Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware Host Client™ and VMware vSphere® Web Client
•  Troubleshoot vSphere environments with VMware vSphere® Management Assistant and command-line commands
•  Describe virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
•  Configure standard switch policies 
•  Troubleshoot virtual networks
•  Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage: VMware vSphere® VMFS, NFS, iSCSI, and RDM
•  Examine the features and functions of Fibre Channel and VMware vSAN™  
•  Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
•  Create, clone, and deploy a vApp
•  Describe and use the content library
•  Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion®
•  Troubleshoot virtual machines
•  Use VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® to migrate virtual machine storage 
•  Troubleshoot vSphere storage
•  Monitor resource usage and manage resource pools
•  Use esxtop to identify and solve performance issues  
•  Troubleshoot ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
•  Discuss the VMware vSphere® High Availability cluster architecture
•  Configure vSphere HA
•  Manage vSphere HA and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance 
•  Troubleshoot vSphere HA
•  Use VMware vSphere® Replication™ and VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ to replicate virtual machines and perform data recovery
•  Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters to improve host scalability

•  System administrators
•  System engineers

This course requires the following prerequisites:
•  System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems