DCATT118 Virtualization

VMware vSphere 7.0 with ESXi and vCenter

This powerful 5-day class is an intensive introduction to VMware vSphere™ including VMware ESXi™ 7 and vCenter™ 7. This course has been completely updated to reflect the most recent changes introduced in vSphere 7. Assuming no prior virtualization experience, this class starts with the basics and rapidly progresses to advanced topics. With 45+% of class time is devoted to labs, students learn the skills they need to become effective vSphere administrators. Students use dedicated labs that start with installation and configuration of stand-alone ESXi servers and progress to shared storage, networking and centralized management. The class continues to advanced topics including resource management, high availability, replication, performance, disaster preparedness, rapid deployment and VM cold, hot and storage migration.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course participants should be familiar with basic configuration of a Windows system.

Course Modules

1. Introduction to VMware vSphere 7.0
2. How to Install, Configure ESXi 7.0
3. Introduction to Virtual and Physical Networking
4. Connecting to NAS / NFS Shared Storage
5. Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines
6. How to Install and Configure vCenter Server Appliance 7.0
7. VM Rapid Deployment using Templates, Clones
8. Working with VM Hot Plug Virtual Hardware
9. The ESXi and vCenter Permission Model
10. Fibre, iSCSI and NFS v4.1 Shared Storage
11. VMFS – VMware's Cluster File System
12. Virtual Infrastructure Monitoring with vCenter Alarms
13. Compute Resource Management with Resource Pools
14. VM Cold, Hot VMotion and Storage VMotion Migration
15. Distributed Resource Scheduling Load Balanced Clusters
16. Rapid VM Failure Recovery with High Availability Clusters
17. Patch Management with VMware Lifecycle Manager
18. Managing Scalability and Performance
19. Final Thoughts