VMware vSphere – Install, Configure, Manage [V8] (EDU-VSICM8)

Tento pětidenní kurz nabízí intenzivní praktické cvičení se zaměřením na instalaci, konfiguraci a správu VMware vSphere® 8, včetně VMware ESXi™ 8 a VMware vCenter Server® 8. Naučíme vás spravovat vSphere infrastrukturu organizace jakékoliv velikosti. Kurz je základem pro většinu dalších VMware technologií v softwarově definovaných data centrech. 

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.

1. Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics.
• Course objectives.
• Describe the content of the 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.
• Identify the advantages of ESXi Quick Boot.
• Compare the types of virtual disk provisioning.

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.
• Manage VMware Tools.
• Explain troubleshooting OS installation and VMware Tools.

4. vCenter Server

• Describe the vCenter Server architecture.
• Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server.
• Identify the vCenter Server services, components, and modules.
• Access and configure vCenter Server Appliance.
• Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory.
• Describe the rules for applying permissions.
• Create a custom role in vCenter Server.
• Create a backup schedule.
• Restore vCenter Server Appliance from backup.
• Monitor vCenter Server Appliance.

5. Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

• Describe, create, and manage standard switches.
• Configure virtual switch security 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.
• Describe the new features of VMFS 6.5.
• Identify the advantages of VMware vSAN™.
• Describe guest file encryption.

7. Virtual Machine Management

• Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines.
• Modify and manage virtual machines.
• Clone a virtual machine.
• Upgrade virtual machine hardware to version 14.
• Remove virtual machines from the vCenter Server inventory and datastore.
• Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine.
• Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations.
• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots.
• Create, clone, and export vApps.
• Identify the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them.

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. vSphere Update Manager

• Describe the new architecture, components, and capabilities of vSphere Update Manager.
• Use vSphere Update Manager to manage the patching of ESXi, virtual machines, and vApps.
• Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in.
• Create patch baselines.
• Use host profiles to manage host configuration compliance.
• Examine the features and functions of vSphere Update Manager EAM integration.
• Integrate vSphere Update Manager with vSphere DRS.
• Scan and remediate hosts.

12. vSphere Troubleshooting

• Define the scope of troubleshooting.
• Use a structured approach to solve configuration and operational problems.
• Identify troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency.

• Describe the software-defined data center.

• Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure.

• Add ESXi hosts to a VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ instance.

• Manage vCenter Server Appliance.

• Use a local content library as an ISO store, and deploy a virtual machine.

• Describe vCenter Server architecture.

• Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host.

• Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware Host Client™ and VMware vSphere® Client™.

• Describe virtual networks with vSphere standard switches.

• Configure standard switch policies.

• Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage: VMware vSphere® VMFS, NFS, iSCSI, and RDM.

• Examine the features and functions of Fibre Channel and VMware vSAN™ .

• Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots.

• Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion®.

• Migrate virtual machine storage with VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®.

• Monitor resource usage, and manage resource pools.

• Discuss the VMware vSphere® High Availability cluster architecture.

• Configure vSphere HA.

• Manage vSphere HA and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance.

• Use VMware vSphere® Replication™ and VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ to replicate virtual machines and perform data recovery.

• Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters to improve host scalability.

• Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches and perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations.

• Identify troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficien.