VMware vSphere: Advanced Administration [V8]

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$4,625.00 USD

Duration
5 Days

Delivery Methods
Virtual Instructor Led
Private Group

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Course Overview

This five-day course provides hands-on training to equip students with a range of skills, from performing routine VMware vSphere 8 administrative tasks to complex vSphere operations and configurations. Through lab-based activities, students are immersed in real-life situations faced by VMBeans, a fictitious company. These situations expose students to real-life scenarios faced by companies that are building and scaling their virtual infrastructure.

This course uses scenario-based lab exercises and does not provide guided step-by-step instructions. To complete the scenario-based lab exercises, you are required to analyze the task, research, and deduce the required solution. References and suggested documentation are provided. This course utilizes labs to teach students how to effectively navigate and manage vSphere. The course aligns fully with the VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization Deploy exam objectives.

Course Objectives

Configure VMware vCenter® and VMware ESXi™
Configure and manage a vSphere cluster solution for vSphere HA, vSphere DRS, and vSAN
Configure vSphere storage and networking
Perform lifecycle operations on vSphere components
Troubleshoot vSphere infrastructure and connectivity issues
Back up vCenter configurations
Implement solutions for securing the vSphere infrastructure

Who Should Attend?

System administrators
System engineers

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Course Prerequisites

This course requires completion of the following prerequisites:

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale, and Secure
Working knowledge of VMware vSAN™
System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Agenda

Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

Creating and Configuring Management Clusters

Create a vSphere cluster for management workloads
Activate vSphere cluster features that help to improve resource allocation and availability of virtual machines
Use standard virtual switches to create networking in a cluster
Select the appropriate vSphere storage types to meet requirements
Configure iSCSI storage
Configure VMFS and NFS datastores
Recognize when to configure ESXi NTP and PTP support
Recognize ESXi user account best practices
Configure ESXi host settings
Use vSphere configuration profiles to maintain consistent ESXi host configurations

Creating and Configuring Production Clusters

Use Cluster Quickstart to create a vSAN-activated cluster
Configure advanced vSphere HA settings
Configure the vCenter identity provider
Assign specific permissions and roles to Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) users
Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility on a cluster and a VM
Perform a Cross vCenter Server migration
Use content libraries to share virtual machine templates between sites
Manage VM and ESXi host resources using resource pools, scalable shares, and vSphere DRS rules