Course Category: CloudDuration: 5 DaysAudience: This class is suitable for anyone who want to learn how to extract the maximum benefit from their investment in Virtual Infrastructure, including: System architects or others who need to design virtual infrastructure; Security specialists responsible for administering, managing, securing Virtual Infrastructure; Operators responsible for day-to-day operation of Virtual Infrastructure; Performance analysts who need to understand, provision, monitor Virtual Infrastructure; Business Continuity specialists responsible for disaster recovery and high availability; Storage administrators who work with Fibre / iSCSI SAN volumes and NAS datastores; Managers who need an unbiased understanding of virtualization before committing their organization to a virtual infrastructure deployment.
Course Name
VMware vSphere 6.5 Boot Camp
Format
5-day, 10 hour/day instructor led training
Course Books
724 pg Study Guide fully annotated with slide notes 243 pg Lab Guide with detailed steps for completing all labs 145 pg Boot Camp Supplement guide with 4 additional chapters and labs
vSphere Version
Based on VMware vSphere 6.5 released March 2017
Delivery Options
Instructor led On-site. Instructor Led Distance. Instructor led mixed On-Site & Remote. Self-paced video training with full lab access and support.
Remote Labs
Remote access to dedicated rack of servers with one enterprise class PC Server per student, an iSCSI SAN, etc.
Max Attendees
We generally recommend no more than 16 students per class We can provide concurrent lab access for 150+ students
Requirements
Course can be run from any location that has a reliable Internet connection. Each attendee needs a PC that supports Microsoft Terminal Services or a modern browser
Lab Time
40+% of class time is devoted to hands-on labs
Certification
Prepares attendees to challenge the Certified Virtualization Professional (CVP) exam http://cvpcertified.com
Recorded Lectures
Attendees receive lifetime access to video recordings of all of the lectures in this course
Overview
This powerful 5-day, 10 hour per day extended hours class is an intensive introduction to VMware vSphere™ including VMware ESXi™ 6.5 and vCenter™ 6.5. This course has been completely rewritten to reflect the most recent changes introduced in vSphere 6.5. Our courseware and labs have been fully updated and now use Host Client and Web Client rather than legacy vSphere Client for both presentation material and lab procedures.
Assuming no prior virtualization experience, this class starts with the basics and rapidly progresses to advanced topics. With 40+% of class time is devoted to labs, students learn the skills they need to become effective vSphere administrators.
Labs 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 balancing, high availability, power management, back up and recovery, performance, vCenter redundancy, VM redundancy. Disaster preparedness, rapid deployment and VM cold, hot and storage migration.
This class is unique in its approach; which is to identify and eliminate common IT pain points using vSphere. Students learn how to deliver business value; not just the technical or mechanical aspects of the software.
By the end of the class, attendees will have the knowledge, skills, and best practices to design, implement, deploy, configure, monitor, manage and troubleshoot vSphere 6.5 installations.
Objectives
At the end of the course, attendees will be able to:
Explain the many significant benefits of virtualization
Install ESXi Server according to best practices
Upgrade and use Host Client to manage stand alone ESXi hosts
Create virtual and virtual to physical network configurations
Configure and manage local storage resources
Use vSwitch policies to improve network security
Explain and select the optimal pNIC teaming strategy for network availability and performance
Implement Jumbo Frames to improve network throughput and reduce protocol overhead
Define and use file share (NAS / NFS) datastores
Create virtual machines, install operating systems and applications
Install, configure and upgrade VMware Tools
Install, configure and update the Platform Service Controller and vCenter Server Appliance
Use rapid deployment to consistently and quickly deploy new virtual machines
Create clones – one-time copies of virtual machine
Use Guest OS customization to rapidly configure new VMs according to requirements
Configure and use hotplug hardware including hot-add vCPUs and Memory
Add and grow virtual disks including system disks and secondary volumes
Configure and use roles. Add, manage, monitor and secure users and groups
Understand the benefits and trade offs of network attached storage and Fibre, iSCSI SANs
Configure and use shared SAN storage including Fibre SAN, iSCSI SAN
Use Raw Device Maps to give VMs direct connectivity to SAN volumes
Create VMFS 5 datastores. Extend VMFS datastores using LUN spanning and expansion
Explain and use VMware’s three multipathing policies for storage performance and availability
Use vCenter alarms to monitor ESXi, VM, storage and network health, performance, state
Use Resource Pools to delegate host / cluster pCPU, pRAM to meet Service Level Agreements
Perform VM cold migrations, hot migrations and Storage VMotion
Configure and manage server CPU and Memory capacity and maintain VM responsiveness with Distributed Resource Schedule load balanced clusters
Use HA to minimize VM down time due to ESXi host failures, storage network failures or SAN failures
Use VMware Fault Tolerance to eliminate VM down time due to host, network or storage failures
Implement a disaster recovery strategy using VMware Replication
Use vSphere Replication to hot replicate and recover business critical Virtual Machines
Patch and update ESXi servers using vCenter Update Manager
Monitor and tune ESXi hosts and virtual machine for best performance
Build, configure, and use distributed virtual switches. Migrate hosts and networking to dvSwitches
Troubleshoot common problems
Prerequisites
Attendees should have user, operator or administrator experience on common operating systems such as Microsoft Windows®, Linux™, UNIX™, etc. Experience installing, configuring and managing operating systems, storage systems and or networks is useful but not required. We assume that all attendees have a basic familiarity with PC server hardware, disk partitioning, IP addressing, O/S installation, networking, etc.
Who Should Attend
This class is suitable for anyone who want to learn how to extract the maximum benefit from their investment in Virtual Infrastructure, including:
System architects or others who need to design virtual infrastructure
Security specialists responsible for administering, managing, securing Virtual Infrastructure
Operators responsible for day-to-day operation of Virtual Infrastructure
Performance analysts who need to understand, provision, monitor Virtual Infrastructure
Business Continuity specialists responsible for disaster recovery and high availability
Storage administrators who work with Fibre / iSCSI SAN volumes and NAS datastores
Managers who need an unbiased understanding of virtualization before committing their organization to a virtual infrastructure deployment.
Chapter List
Our class consists of the following 22 chapters:
Virtualization Infrastructure Overview
How to Install, Configure ESXi 6.5 (HoL1)
Virtual and Physical Networking (HoL)
Advanced Virtual Networking (HoL)
NAS Shared Storage (HoL)
Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines (HoL)
Install and Deploy the vCenter Server Appliance (HoL)
VM Rapid Deployment using Templates, Clones (HoL) Add and Grow virtual disks (HoL) Advanced Virtual Hardware – Hot Plug CPU/Memory (HoL)
ESXi and vCenter Permission Model (HoL)
Using Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage (HoL)
Direct VM to SAN Access with Raw Device Maps (HoL)
VMFS – The VMware Cluster File System (HoL)
ESXi and vCenter Alarms (HoL)
Resource Management and Resource Pools (HoL)
VM Hot VMotion, Cold Migration and Storage VMotion (HoL)
Load Balancing w. Distributed Resource Scheduler (HoL)
Failure Recovery with High Availability Clusters (HoL)
Configure Fault Tolerance and test a Fault Tolerance protected VM (HoL)
Disaster Preparedness with vSphere Replication (HoL)
Patch Management with VMware Update Manager (HoL)
Create, configure and migrate networking to a Distributed Virtual Switch (HoL)
Managing Scalability and Performance (HoL)
Final Thoughts
1 HoL – Every attendee perform one or more Hands on Labs at the end of each chapter
Hands On Labs
Attendees will complete the following hands on labs during the class:
Install of ESXi 6.5 and perform post-install configurations
Update ESXi 6.5 Host Client to improve stability and add features
Create, update Network Standard vSwitches. Use NIC Teams for performance and redundancy
Enable vSwitch Security policies. Upgrade a pNIC team for reliability
Enable Jumbo Frames on pNICs and VMkernel ports for improved network throughput
Define, connect to and browse NFS file shares
Create a Virtual Machine and install a guest OS into the VM
Install VMware Tools into the VM. Add 3rd party tools and utilities to the VM
Export a VM in Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) and then re-import it
Install and configure the vCenter Server Appliance
Configure Single Sign On (SSO) identity sources including Active Directory
Configure vCenter’s inventory views to organize inventory objects
Work with Clones and Templates. Convert a VM into a template
Rapidly deploy new VMs from template. Copy VMs using cloning.
Use guest OS customization to easily change the identity of a VM
Create, update and deploy VMs using Guest OS Customization Specifications
Work with virtual disks. Hot add a secondary virtual disk. Grow a non-system volume
Grow a Windows system disk and increase it’s partitions without the need for 3rd party tools
Configure and test hotplug memory. Create multi-core vCPUs
Work with vCenter permissions. Use and customize Roles
iSCSI, Fibre Storage Area Networks. Connecting to shared storage
Create and use Raw Device Maps to give VMs direct SAN volume access
VMware VMFS – VMware’s cluster file system. How to create, tune and grow VMFS volumes
Review and set the best Path Selection Policy for a VMFS volume
Create, manage and monitor Resource Pools. Work with resource tuning settings.
Create vCenter alarms for monitoring key infrastructure objects
Trigger alarms and send SNMP traps to a trap receiver on high VM resource consumption
VM migration including Cold Migration, Storage Migration and VMotion
Automated VM resource load balancing with DRS clusters
Use HA clusters to minimize VM down time due to server failures
Configure and enable Fault Tolerance protected VMs to implement zero unplanned VM downtime
Protect critical VMs from infrastructure failures using VMware Replication
Set up VMware Update Manager to patch/update ESXi hosts
Create, configure and use distributed Virtual Switches. Migrate standard network to dvSwitches
Performance analysis and bench marking storage and networking
Certification
Attendees will acquire all of the knowledge and hands on skills they need to successfully challenge the Certified Virtualization Professional (CVP) exam a the end of the course.
Please check with your training provider to see if a CVP exam voucher are included in the price of this course.