This 5-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 6.7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 6.7 and VMware vCenter Server® 6.7. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size.  This course is the foundation for most of the other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
•  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 (vSphere HA) 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 efficiency