This five-day VMware vSphere foundation course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 7 and VMware vCenter Server® 7. This VMware course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size.
Product Alignment:
VMware ESXi 8.0
VMware vCenter 8.0
Individuals involved in the implementation, maintenance and administration of a vSphere environment.
By actively participating in this course, you will learn about the following:
Install and configure ESXi hosts.
Deploy and configure vCenter.
Use the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users.
Create virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches.
Create and configure datastores using storage technologies supported by vSphere.
Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots.
Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines.
Manage virtual machine resource allocation.
Migrate virtual machines with vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion.
Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with vSphere High Availability (HA) and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler.
Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date.
Attendees should meet the following prerequisites:
System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
vSphere and Virtualization Overview
Explain basic virtualization concepts
Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs
Installing and Configuring ESXi
Install an ESXi host
Recognize ESXi user account best practices
Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client
Deploying and Configuring vCenter
Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter
Deploy vCenter Server Appliance
Configure vCenter settings
Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys
Create and organize vCenter inventory objects
Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions
View vCenter logs and events
Configuring vSphere Networking
Configure and view standard switch configurations
Configure and view distributed switch configurations
Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches
Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches
Configuring vSphere Storage
Recognize vSphere storage technologies
Identify types of vSphere datastores
Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing
Describe iSCSI components and addressing
Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi
Create and manage VMFS datastores
Configure and manage NFS datastores
Deploying Virtual Machines
Create and provision VMs
Explain the importance of VMware Tools
Identify the files that make up a VM
Recognize the components of a VM
Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options
Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources
Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them
Clone VMs
Create customization specifications for guest operating systems
Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries
Deploy VMs from content libraries
Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries
This course is recommended as preparation for the VMWare Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization 2023.
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