vSphere 6.7 Course Contents

VMware vSphere 6.7 with ESXi and vCenter

Detailed Chapter List

Chapter 1 – Virtualization Infrastructure Overview

• Virtualization explained

• How VMware virtualization compares to traditional PC deployments

• Common pain points in PC Server management

• How virtualization effectively addresses common IT issues

• VMware vSphere software products

• What's New and Improved in vSphere 6.7

Chapter 2 – How to Install, Configure ESXi 6.7

• Understanding ESXi

• Selecting, validating and preparing your server

• Storage controllers, disks and partitions

• Software installation and best practices

• Join ESXi to a Domain

• Local User Management and Policies

• First look at the VMware vSphere Client and VMware Host Client

Chapter 3 – Virtual and Physical Networking

• vNetwork standard and distributed virtual Switches

• Virtual Switches, Ports and Port Groups

• Creating VMkernel ports

• Creating, sizing and customizing Virtual Switches

Chapter 4 – Connecting to and Using NAS Shared Storage

• Benefits Shared Storage offer to Virtual Infrastructure

• NFS Overview

• Configuring ESX to use NFS Shares

• Configuring NFS for performance and redundancy

• NFS Use Cases

• Troubleshooting NFS connections

Chapter 5 – Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines

• VM virtual hardware, options and limits

• Sizing and creating a new VM

• Assigning, modifying and removing Virtual Hardware

• Working with a VM’s BIOS

• VMware remote console applications

• Installing an OS into a VM

• Driver installation and customization

Chapter 6 – vCenter Server Appliance and Web Client

• The need for Identity Source management

• Installing and configuring vCenter Server Appliance with an embedded Platform Service Controller

• Connecting Single Sign On (SSO) to Active Directory and other identity sources

• vCenter feature overview and components

• Organizing vCenter's inventory views

• Importing ESX hosts into vCenter management

• Administering vCenter Server with Web Client

Chapter 7 – VM Rapid Deployment using Templates, Clones

• Templates – Virtual Machine Golden Master images

• Creating, modifying, updating and working with Templates

• Patching, and refreshing Templates

• Cloning, one time copies of VMs

• Best practices for cloning and templating

• Adding and resizing virtual disks

• Hotplug VM virtual CPUs and Memory

Chapter 8 – ESXi and vCenter Permission Model

• VMware Security model

• Configuring local users and groups

• Managing local permissions

• vCenter security model

• Local, Domain and Active Directory users and groups

• How permissions are applied

Chapter 9 – Using Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage

• Fibre SAN overview

• Identifying and using Fibre Host Bus Adapters

• Scanning and Rescanning Fibre SANs

• iSCSI overview

• Virtual and physical iSCSI adapters

• Connecting to iSCSI storage

• Scanning and rescanning iSCSI SANS

• Performance and redundancy considerations and best practices

• Understanding the benefits of VMware VAAI compliant storage

Chapter 10 – VMware File System (VMFS)

• Unique file system properties of VMFS

• Managing shared Volumes

• Creating new VMFS partitions

• Explanation of new VMFS 6 features and capabilities

• Managing VMFS capacity with LUN spanning and LUN expansion

• Native and 3rd party Multipathing with Fibre and iSCSI SANs

• VMFS performance considerations

• VMFS scalability and reliability

Chapter 11 – Infrastructure Monitoring with vCenter Alarms

• Alarm categories and definitions

• Creating custom alarms and actions

• Configure vCenter so it can send E-mail and SNMP alerts

• Reviewing alarms and acknowledging them

• Work with alarm conditions, triggers and actions

• Identify most useful alarms to review and enable

Chapter 12 – Resource Management and Resource Pools

• Delegate resources in bulk using Resource Pools

• How ESX delivers resources to VMs

• Shares, Reservations and Limits

• CPU resource scheduling

• Memory resource scheduling

• Resource Pools

Chapter 13 – VMotion Migration, Cold Migration, Storage VMotion

• Cold VM migrations to new ESX hosts, datastores

• Hot Migrations with VMotion

• VMotion requirements and dependencies

• How VMotion works – detailed explanation

• Troubleshooting VMotion

• How to test hosts for VMotion compatibility

• Storage VMotion for hot VM disk migrations

Chapter 14 – Distributed Resource Scheduling Clusters

• CPU and Memory resource balanced clusters with VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler

• DRS Cluster configuration and tuning

• Per-VM cluster policy overrides

• Learn the features and benefits of DRS Power Management

Chapter 15 – Failure Recovery with High Availability Clusters

• High Availability options to minimize unplanned down time

• How VMware HA protects against ESXi host, storage network and SAN volume failures

• Understand and review HA’s many policies

• Introduction to continuous VM availability using VMware Fault Tolerance

Chapter 15.1 – Failure Recovery with High Availability Clusters

• How Fault Tolerance provides continuous VM availability during ESXi host, storage network and SAN

storage failures

• How to configure ESXi hosts and networks to enable Fault Tolerance

• How to configure, enable and monitor Fault Tolerance on VMs

• Managing Fault Tolerance protected VMs

• Fault Tolerance scalability, performance and limitations

Chapter 16 – Disaster Preparedness with vSphere Replication

• Explain vSphere Replication features and Use Cases

• Import the vSphere Replication virtual appliance

• Configure vSphere Replication including Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs)

• Performing an initial VM replication

• Scheduling periodic VM synchronization to the replication target site

• Recover a VM using vSphere Replication

Chapter 17 – Patch Management with VMware Update Manager

• Configure and enable VMware Update Manager

• Establishing a patch baseline

• Verifying compliance and patching ESXi hosts

Chapter 18 – Managing Scalability and Performance

• VMkernel CPU and memory resource management mechanisms

• Tuning VM storage I/O performance

• Identifying and resolving resource contention

• Monitoring VM and ESX host performance

• Performance and capacity planning strategies