Tento pětidenní intenzivní kurz vás provede z úvodních do pokročilých manažerských dovedností VMware vSphere®. Na základě obsahu nejžádanějšího kurzu instalace a konfigurace budete rozvíjet pokročilé dovednosti potřebné pro správu a údržbu škálovatelné virtuální infrastruktury. Prostřednictvím kombinace přednášek a praktických laboratoří budete instalovat, konfigurovat a spravovat vSphere 7. Prozkoumáte funkce, které budují základ pro skutečně škálovatelnou infrastrukturu a prodiskutujete, kdy a kde mají tyto funkce největší efekt. Tento kurz vás připraví na správu infrastruktury vSphere pro organizaci libovolné velikosti pomocí vSphere 8, která zahrnuje VMware ESXi™ 8 a VMware vCenter Server® 8. 

Předpokládané znalosti

• Zkušenosti se správou operačních systémů Microsoft Windows nebo Linux.

Zaměření kurzu

• Kurz je vhodný pro systémové integrátory a inženýry.

Po celou dobu kurzu je pro vás připraveno bohaté občerstvení a kvalitní káva.

Studijní materiály

• Originální literatura VMware v anglickém jazyce v ceně kurzu.

Příprava na certifikaci:

• Tento kurz je součástí přípravy na zkoušku VMware Certified Professional 8.0 – Data Center Virtualization VCP8-DCV).

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, vSphere Fault Tolerance, and Protecting Data

• 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. Network Scalability

• Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches.
• Explain distributed features such as port mirroring, LACP, QoS tagging, and NetFlow.
• Configuring port mirroring on a distributed switch.

12. 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.
• Describe and use host profiles.

13. Storage Scalability

• Explain VMware vSphere® Storage APIs - Array Integration, VMware vSphere® API for Storage Awareness™, and vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering.
• Configure and assign virtual machine storage policies.
• Configure vSphere Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control.

14. 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.

• 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™.

• Create virtual networks with VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™ and enable distributed switch features.

• Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches and perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines.

• Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance.

• Describe how vSphere storage APIs help storage systems integrate with vSphere.

• Configure and use virtual machine storage policies.

• Configure VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control and VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™.

• Encrypt virtual machines for additional security.