VMware vSphere 7.0 Bootcamp Student Electronic
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.
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 learned the skills, and best practices of virtualization. Attendees will be able to design, implement, deploy, configure, monitor, manage and troubleshoot vSphere 7.0.
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
• Use Host Client to manage standalone ESXi hosts
• Configure and manage local storage resources
• Create virtual and virtual to physical network configurations
• Configure and used Advanced vSwitch features including Teaming, Security and Jumbo Frames
• 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
• Rapid deployment of VMs using golden-master templates
• 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 to upgrade VM hardware with zero downtime
• Configure, manage, monitor and secure users and groups
• Work with roles and permissions to implement access controls to vCenter
• Understand the benefits and tradeoffs of network-attached storage and Fibre, iSCSI SANs
• Configure and use shared SAN storage including Fibre SAN, iSCSI SAN
• Configure direct VM to SAN volume storage with Raw Device Maps
• Add and grow VM virtual disks including system disks and secondary volumes
• Use vCenter alarms to monitor ESXi, VM, storage and network health, performance, state
• Use Resource Pools to bulk delegate resource to meet Service Level Agreements
• Perform VM cold migrations, hot VMotion migrations and hot Storage VMotion migrations
• Configure and manage server CPU and Memory capacity and maintain VM responsiveness with Distributed Resource Schedule load balanced clusters
• Deliver high VM service availability using VMware High Availability clusters
• Provide zero unplanned VM downtime using vSphere Fault Tolerance
• Use HA to successfully minimize unplanned VM down time caused by ESXi host failures, storage network failures or SAN volume failures
• Implement a disaster preparedness strategy using VMware Replication
• Patch and update ESXi servers using vCenter Update Manager
• Create Distributed Virtual Switches. Migrate VM and VMkernel networking over to dvSwitches
• Monitor and tune both ESXi and virtual machine performance
• Understand how VMware and third party products, including operating systems, are impacted by virtualization
• Troubleshoot common problems
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 chapters:
1. Introduction to VMware
vSphere 7.0
2. How to Install, Configure ESXi
7.0 (HoL1)
3. Introduction to Virtual and
Physical Networking (HoL)
4. Advanced Virtual Networking
(HoL)
5. Connecting to NAS/NFS Shared
Storage(HoL)
6. Virtual Hardware and Virtual
Machines (HoL)
7. How to Install and Configure
vCenter Server Appliance v7.0 (HoL)
8. VM Rapid Deployment using
Templates, Clones (HoL)
9. Working with VM Hot Plug
Virtual Hardware (HoL)
10. The ESXi and vCenter
Permission Model (HoL)
11. Fibre, iSCSI and NFS v4.1
Shared Storage (HoL)
12. Direct VM to SAN Volume access
with Raw Device Maps(HoL)
13. VMFS – VMware’s Cluster File
System (HoL)
14. Virtual Infrastructure
Monitoring with vCenter Alarms (HoL)
15. Compute Resource Management
with Resource Pools (HoL)
16. VM Cold, Hot VMotion and
Storage VMotion Migration(HoL)
17. Load Balancing with
Distributed Resource Scheduling Clusters (HoL)
18. Rapid VM Failure Recovery with
High Availability Clusters (HoL)
19. Deliver Zero Unplanned VM
Downtime with Fault Tolerance (HoL)
20. Patch Management with VMware
Lifecycle Manager (HoL)
21. Introduction to Distributed
Virtual Switches (HoL)
22. Managing Scalability and
Performance (HoL)
23. Final Thoughts
(1 HoL – Every
attendee performs one or more Hands-on Lab exercises at the
end of the chapter)
Hands-On Labs:
Attendees will complete the
following hands-on labs during the class:
• Install of ESXi 7 and perform
post-install configurations
• Create, update Network Standard
vSwitches. Use NIC Teams for performance and redundancy
• Configure Standard vSwitch
properties including Security and pNIC Teaming
• Configure and test Jumbo Frames
to improve physical networking performance
• 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 (Optional)
• Install and configure the
vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)
• Configure Single Sign On (SSO)
identity sources including Active Directory
• Configure vCenter's inventory
views to organize inventory objects
• Getting started with vCenter’s
HTML 5 Client
• 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 its partitions without the need for 3rd party tools
• Configure and test hotplug
memory
• Hotplug a new virtual CPU
package into a running VM
• Work with vCenter permissions.
Use and customize Roles
• iSCSI, Fibre Storage Area
Networks. Scanning for and connecting to SAN shared storage
• Assign a SAN volume directly to
a VM using Raw Device Maps
• VMware VMFS 6 – VMware's cluster
file system. How to create, tune and grow VMFS volumes
• vCenter alarms for monitoring
key infrastructure objects. Send SNMP traps to a trap receiver on high VM
resource consumption
• Create and resource tune
Resource Pools. Test resource resource delegations
• Cold Migration VMs from one ESXi
host and storage volume to another
• Hot VMotion the live running
state of a VM from one ESXi host to another
• Hot Storage Migrate the live
disk state of a running VM from one datastore to another
• Build and test an automated CPU
and Memory resource load balancing DRS clusters
• Create and test an HA cluster.
Watch the cluster place and restart VMs during a server failures
• Configure ESXi hosts, networking
and VMs for Fault Tolerance
• Test your Fault Tolerance
protected VM and verify continuous VM availability if an ESXi host fails
• Set up VMware Lifecycle Manager
to patch/update ESXi hosts. Perform an ESXi host Patch Scan, review host
non-compliance with attached patch baselines and then apply patches to update
the ESXi host
• Configure a Distributed Virtual
Switch
• Migrate VM and VMkernel
networking from standard vSwitches to dvSwitches
• Performance analysis and bench
marking storage and networking
Every attendee gets the use
of a dedicated lab environment for their exclusive use during the class.
Student labs are available 24hrs/day for review, practice, etc.
Detailed Chapter List:
Chapter 1 – Introduction
to VMware vSphere 7.0
Virtualization explained
How VMware virtualization compares
to traditional PC deployments
Common pain points in PC Server
management
How virtualization effectively
addresses common IT issues
VMware vSphere software products
Hyperconverged Storage with VMware
vSAN
Hyperconverged Networking with
VMware NSX
What's New and Improved in vSphere
7
Chapter 2 – How to Install,
Configure ESXi 7.0
Understanding ESXi
Selecting, validating and
preparing your server
Storage controllers, disks and
partitions
Software installation and best
practices
Join ESXi to a Domain
Local User Management and Policies
First look at the VMware Host
Client
Chapter 3 – Introduction to
Virtual and Physical Networking
vNetwork standard and distributed
virtual Switches
Virtual Switches, Ports and Port
Groups
Creating VMkernel NICs
Creating, sizing and customizing
Virtual Switches
Chapter 4 – Advanced Virtual
Networking
Explore advanced vSwitch
properties
Explain vSwitch Security
properties and their use cases
Explain the five NIC Teaming
strategies, their implementation, pros, cons and use cases
Explore Jumbo frames including how
to test, configure and verify Jumbo frames
Identify Jumbo frame use cases and
where to avoid using Jumbo frames
Chapter 5 – Connecting to
NAS/NFS Shared Storage
Benefits Shared Storage offer to
Virtual Infrastructure
NFS Overview
Configuring ESX to use NFS Shares
Configuring NFS for performance
and redundancy
NFS Use Cases
Troubleshooting NFS connections
Chapter 6 – Virtual Hardware
and Virtual Machines
VM virtual hardware, options and
limits
Sizing and creating a new VM
Assigning, modifying and removing
Virtual Hardware
Working with a VM’s BIOS
VMware remote console applications
Installing an OS into a VM
Driver installation and
customization
Chapter 7 – How to Install,
Configure vCenter Server 7.0
The need for Identity Source
management
Installing and configuring vCenter
Server Appliance with an embedded Platform Service Controller
Connecting Single Sign On (SSO) to
Active Directory and other identity sources
vCenter feature overview and
components
Organizing vCenter's inventory
views
Importing ESX hosts into vCenter
management
Administering vCenter Server with
Web Client
Chapter 8 – VM Rapid Deployment
using Templates, Clones
Templates – Virtual Machine Golden
Master images
Creating, modifying, updating and
working with Templates
Patching and refreshing Templates
Cloning, one-time copies of VMs
Best practices for cloning and
templating
Adding and resizing virtual disks
Hotplug VM virtual CPUs and Memory
Chapter 9 – Working with VM Hot
Plug Virtual Hardware
Upgrade VM vHardware with no
downtime with hotplug virtual hardware
Preparing to hotplug vCPUs and
vRAM into a running VM
Hotplug vNICs and vDisks into a
running VM
Hotplug Hardware and Guest OS
support
Chapter 10 – The ESXi and
vCenter Permission Model
VMware Security model
Configuring local users and groups
Managing local permissions
vCenter security model
Local, Domain and Active Directory
users and groups
How permissions are applied
Chapter 11 – Fibre, iSCSI and
NFS v4.1 Shared Storage
Fibre SAN overview
Identifying and using Fibre Host
Bus Adapters
Scanning and Rescanning Fibre SANs
iSCSI overview
Virtual and physical iSCSI
adapters
Connecting to iSCSI storage
Scanning and rescanning iSCSI SANS
Performance and redundancy
considerations and best practices
Understanding the benefits of
VMware VAAI compliant storage
Chapter 12 – Raw Device Maps
Connecting VMs directly to SAN
volumes using Raw Device Maps (RDM)
RDM features, benefits and use
cases
Virtual and Physical RDMs
explained
How to set up and use RDMs
How to correctly tear down RDMs
Chapter 13 – VMFS –
VMware’s Cluster File System
Unique file system properties of
VMFS 6
Managing shared Volumes
Creating new VMFS partitions
Explanation of new VMFS 6 features
and capabilities
Managing VMFS capacity with LUN
spanning and LUN expansion
Native and 3rd party Multipathing
with Fibre and iSCSI SANs
VMFS performance considerations
VMFS scalability and reliability
Chapter 14 –
Infrastructure Monitoring with vCenter Alarms
Alarm categories and definitions
Creating custom alarms and actions
Configure vCenter so it can send
E-mail and SNMP alerts
Reviewing alarms and acknowledging
them
Work with alarm conditions,
triggers and actions
Identify most useful alarms to
review and enable
Chapter 15 – Resource
Management and Resource Pools
Delegate resources in bulk using
Resource Pools
How ESX delivers resources to VMs
Shares, Reservations and Limits
CPU resource scheduling
Memory resource scheduling
Resource Pools
Chapter 16 – VM Cold, Hot
VMotion and Storage VMotion Migration
Cold VM migrations to new ESX
hosts, datastores
Hot Migrations with VMotion
VMotion requirements and
dependencies
How VMotion works – detailed
explanation
Troubleshooting VMotion
How to test hosts for VMotion
compatibility
Storage VMotion for hot VM disk
migrations
Chapter 17 – Load Balancing
with Distributed Resource Scheduling Clusters
CPU and Memory resource balanced
clusters with VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler
DRS Cluster configuration and
tuning
Per-VM cluster policy overrides
Learn the features and benefits of
DRS Power Management
Chapter 18 – Rapid VM Failure
Recovery with High Availability Clusters
High Availability options to
minimize unplanned down time
How VMware HA protects against
ESXi host, storage network and SAN volume failures
Understand and review HA’s many
policies
Introduction to continuous VM
availability using VMware Fault Tolerance
Chapter 19 – Continuous
VM Availability with Fault Tolerance
Introduction to continuous VM
availability using VMware Fault Tolerance
Configuring host networking to
support Fault Tolerance
Fault Tolerant protected VMs
restrictions and limitations
Configuring and enabling VM Fault
Tolerance protection
Testing Fault Tolerance and
demonstrating zero VM unplanned downtime
Chapter 20 – Patch Management
with VMware Lifecycle Manager
Configure and enable VMware
Lifecycle Manager
Establishing a patch baseline
Verifying compliance and patching
ESXi hosts
Chapter 21 – Introduction
to Distributed Virtual Switches
Introduction to dvSwitch features
and capabilities
Create, configure a dvSwitch
Migrating VMkernel NICs from
standard to dvSwitches
Bulk migrate VMs from standard to
dvSwitches
dvSwitch configuration backup and
restore
Chapter 22 – Managing
Scalability and Performance
VMkernel CPU and memory resource
management mechanisms
Tuning VM storage I/O performance
Identifying and resolving resource
contention
Monitoring VM and ESX host
performance
Performance and capacity planning
strategies
Chapter 23 – Final
Thoughts
Consolidation guidelines for VMs
and Storage
Determining which workloads to
consolidate
Useful books, white papers and
online resources
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rapid delivery boot-camps
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meet your unique training needs
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and assistance
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