Advanced VMware vSphere Install and Configure v6

The Advanced VMware vSphere 6.0 course continues from where the Introduction to VMware vSphere 6.0 course left off. This course starts by covering Network Policies on both Standard and Distributed vSwitches. Next, you will learn about Shared Storage Technologies, multipathing and configuration of VMFS and NFS datastores. Virtual Machines migration techniques including vMotion and Storage vMotion, vCenter Security and Resource Management is covered next. Finally, towards the end of this course you learn the theoretical and configuration aspects of vSphere Advanced features including High Availability, DRS, Storage DRS, DPM and Host Profiles among others.

Course Outline

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Module 2: Advance Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

• Reviewing managing standard switches
• Create, configure and manage vSphere distribute switches, network connections
• Configure virtual switch security and load-balancing policies

Module 3: Advance Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

• Reviewing storage protocols and storage device types
• Introduce VMware Virtual SAN

Module 4: Virtual Machine Management

• Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
• Modify and manage virtual machines
• Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migration
• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
• Create vApps
• Introduce the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them

Module 5: Resource Management and Monitoring

• Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
• 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
• Identify and troubleshoot virtual machine resource issues
• Introduce vRealize Operations Manager for data center monitoring and management

Module 6: vSphere Replication & Scalability

• Introduce vSphere Replication
• Use vSphere Data Protection to back up and restore data

Module 7: vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance

• Use vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi patching
• Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in
• Create patch baselines
• Use host profiles to manage host configuration compliance
• Scan and remediate hosts

Module 8: Installing vSphere Components

• Install ESXi
• Introduce vCenter Server deployment options
• Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
• Discuss the installation of vCenter Server Appliance and vCenter Server Instance
• Demonstrate vCenter Server Installation