VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]

Course Outline

Module 1. Introduction
1.1. What you will find in this book

Module 2. Grounds for Virtualization and Cloud Computing
2.1. Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds
2.2. Virtualization defined
2.3. What's in it for me?
2.4. What is a hypervisor?
2.5. Hypervisor Classifications
2.6. Comparison of production hypervisors

Module 3. VMware® vSphere™
3.1. What is VMware® vSphere™?
3.2. VMware® vSphere™ Components
3.3. What's new in VMware® vSphere™

Module 4. Installing ESXi
4.1. Where should I get the ESXi ISO
4.2. Disk based or Diskless install?
LAB 1. Accessing the ESXi Embedded Host Client (Replacement for the Windows
Client)
LAB 2. Connecting to a standalone ESXi Host

Module 5. Time in a vSphere™ Environment
5.1. NTP (Linux) Time
5.2. Windows Time
LAB 3. ESXi and NTP

Module 6. Active Directory and ESXi / vSphere™
LAB 4. Joining ESXi to Active Directory

Module 7. Virtual Machines
7.1. The Virtual Machine Remote Console
7.2. Windows Desktop VMs
LAB 5. Building a Windows 10 VM
LAB 6. VMware Tools
7.3. Mission Critical VMs
LAB 7. Windows Server 2016
LAB 8. VMware tools for w2k16
7.4. Virtual Machine File Types
LAB 9. Virtual machine Files and Folders
LAB 10. Files and Folders using Putty
7.5. VM Configuration Parameters
LAB 11. Typematic Resolution
7.6. Timekeeping in Virtual Machines
LAB 12. Disable Timekeeping for Windows Server VM
7.7. Understanding Snapshots
LAB 13. Creating, Deleting, and Consolidating Snapshots

Module 8. vCenter Server
8.1. vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)
LAB 14. Installing the vCSA
LAB 15. Downloading log file bundles
8.2. vCenter Consoles, Clients and connections
LAB 16. Virtual Appliance Management Interface (VAMI) Web console
LAB 17. vCenter Server HTML5 Web Client – supported for production use
LAB 18. vCenter Server Flex Client – required for VUM

Module 9. vSphere™ Management With vCenter Server
LAB 19. Adding AD as LDAPs ID Source
LAB 20. Initial Global Permission assignment
LAB 21. Adding ESXI server(s)
LAB 22. Licensing
LAB 23. Disabling SSH alarm
LAB 24. Configuring vCenter to send and receive email
9.2. Scheduled Tasks
LAB 25. Scheduled Tasks
9.3. Alarms
LAB 26. Cresting an Alarm for one Inventory Item
LAB 27. Creating an Alarm for the whole environment

Module 10. Virtual Networking
10.1. 802.2 Networking Terms
10.2. Virtual SwitchesSBS LAB 28. Create a VMware Standard Virtual Switch (vSS)
10.3. Port Groups and VLANs
LAB 29. Create a Port Group using VLANs
10.4. Best Practices Network Configuration
LAB 30. Add physical NICs and create redundancy
LAB 31. Create separate network for non-management VMs (production)
10.5. Standard vSwitch Properties
LAB 32. Security policy
LAB 33. Set Load Balancing
LAB 34. Set Failover Policy

Module 11. The VMkernel port group
11.1. What is a VMkernel in reality?
11.2. Properties of the VMkernel
LAB 35. Create Redundant iSCSI Network Connections
LAB 36. Set vSwitch Load Balancing for compliance with vSphere™ Port Binding
requirements

Module 12. vSphere™ Storage
12.1. Terms
12.2. SAN Storage
12.3. Presenting Block Storage to vSphere™
LAB 37. Add ISCSI SAN Storage Adapter
LAB 38. Set Port Binding for iSCSI
12.4. VMFS File System
LAB 39. Formatting a LUN as VMFS 6
LAB 40. Setting the Path Selection Policy (PSP) for one LUN (GUI)

Module 13. VMware HA and DRS Clusters
13.1. VMware vSphere Clusters overview
13.2. VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
13.3. VMware vSphere High Availability (HA)
13.4. vMotion
LAB 41. Create VMkernel interface for vMotion
LAB 42. Join Class data center

LAB 43. Test vMotion
13.5. Cluster Management
LAB 44. Create HA and DRS cluster
13.6. Distributed Power Management (DPM)
LAB 45. Configure DPM

Module 14. Virtual Machine Deployment Techniques
14.1. Templates and Clones
LAB 46. Create a vCenter Clone
LAB 47. Use vSphere™ Customization Specification (Sysprep)
LAB 48. Convert to template
LAB 49. Deploy a new VM from Template
14.2. Preparing VMs for production use
LAB 50. Extending a VM disk live
LAB 51. Adding a disk to a mission critical Server
LAB 52. Static IP and domain join
LAB 53. Creating proper service account

Module 15. vSphere™ Fault Tolerance (FT)
LAB 54. Enabling FT on a VM

Module 16. Performance Charts and Monitoring
16.1. Metrics and Thresholds
16.2. Using Performance Charts