VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere, which includes VMware ESXi and VMware vCenter Server. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size and forms the foundation for most other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.

This course is beneficial to system administrators and systems engineers and meets the prerequisite for advanced vSphere courses, which can be found at: www.vmware.com/education.

Objectives:

• Describe the software-defined data center and explain vSphere components and structure
• Add ESXi hosts to a VMware vCenter Server Appliance instance
• Manage vCenter Server Appliance and describe vCenter Server architecture
• Use a local content library as an ISO store, and deploy a virtual machine
• 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 and configure standard switch policies
• Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage: VMware vSphere® VMFS, NFS, iSCSI, and RDM
• Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere vMotion
• Migrate virtual machine storage with VMware vSphere Storage vMotion Monitor resource usage, and manage resource pools
• Configure and 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 efficiency