VSPSA67 - VMware vSphere: Skills for Public Sector Administrators [V6.7]

Overview

Duration: 5.0 days

This five-day, intensive course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere® management skills. Building on the installation and configuration content from VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7], you will develop advanced skills needed to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you will install, configure and manage vSphere 6.7. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size using vSphere 6.7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 6.7 and VMware vCenter Server® 6.7.

Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Install and configure ESXi hosts 
• Deploy and configure VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ 
• Use VMware Host Client™, VMware vSphere® Web Client, and VMware vSphere® Client™ to manage the vCenter Server inventory and the vCenter Server configuration 
• Create virtual networks with vSphere standard switches 
• Describe the storage technologies supported by vSphere 
• Configure virtual storage using iSCSI and NFS storage 
• Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores 
• Use vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots 
• Create a content library for deploying virtual machines 
• Manage virtual machine resource usage and manage resource pools • Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® 
• Describe the methods for protecting and recovering virtual machine data 
• Create and manage a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ 
• Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches and perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines 
• Encrypt virtual machines for additional security

Content

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics 
• Course objectives 
• Describe the content of this course 
• Gain a complete picture of the VMware certification system 
• Familiarize yourself with the benefits of the VMware Education Learning Zone 
• Identify additional resources

2 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 
• Install and configure ESXi host settings 
• Identify the advantages of ESXi Quick Boot

3 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

4 vCenter Server

• Describe the vCenter Server architecture 
• Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server 
• Access and configure vCenter Server Appliance 
• Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory 
• Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server 
• Create custom inventory tags 
• Describe the rules for applying permissions 
• Create a custom role in vCenter Server 
• Create a vCenter Server Appliance backup schedule 
• Restore vCenter Server Appliance from a backup 
• Monitor vCenter Server Appliance

5 Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

• Describe, create, and manage standard switches 
• Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping and load-balancing policies 
• Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches 
• Describe the virtual switch connection types 
• Describe the new TCP/IP stack architecture 
• Use VLANs with standard switches

6 Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

• Identify storage protocols and storage device types 
• Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage 
• Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS and NFS datastores 
• Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage 
• Identify the advantages of VMware vSAN™

7 Virtual Machine Management

• Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines 
• Modify and manage virtual machines 
• Create an instant clone of a virtual machine 
• Identify the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them 
• Add a hot-pluggable device 
• Dynamically increase the size of a virtual disk 
• Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine 
• Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations 
• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots

8 Resource Management and Monitoring

• Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment 
• Describe what overcommitment of a resource means 
• Identify additional technologies that improve memory usage 
• Configure and manage resource pools 
• Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage 
• Use various tools to monitor resource usage 
• Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events

9 vSphere HA and vSphere Fault Tolerance

• Explain the vSphere HA architecture 
• Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster 
• Use vSphere HA advanced parameters 
• Enforce infrastructural or intra-app dependencies during failover 
• Describe vSphere HA heartbeat networks and datastore heartbeats 
• Examine the features and functions of vSphere Fault Tolerance 
• Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines 
• Support vSphere Fault Tolerance interoperability with vSAN 
• Examine enhanced consolidation of vSphere Fault Tolerance virtual machines 
• Examine the features and functions of vSphere Replication

10 vSphere DRS

• Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster 
• Create a vSphere DRS cluster 
• View information about a vSphere DRS cluster 
• Configure virtual machine affinity, DRS groups, and VM-host affinity rules 
• Remove a host from a vSphere DRS cluster

11 vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance

• Describe the architecture, components, and capabilities of vSphere Update Manager 
• Use vSphere Update Manager to manage the patching of ESXi, virtual machines, and vApps 
• Examine the features and functions of vSphere Update Manager EAM integration 
• Integrate vSphere Update Manager with vSphere DRS

12 Securing Virtual Machines

• Set up encryption in your vSphere environment 
• Encrypt virtual machines 
• Encrypt core dumps 
• Enable encrypted vSphere vMotion 
• Describe support for virtual machine security features, such as UEFI secure boot, vTPM, and virtualization- based security

Audience

• System administrators 
• System engineers

Prerequisites

This course has the following prerequisites:

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