VMware vSphere 6 Essential Training

An introduction to VMware's cloud-based virtual operating system, vSphere 6.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Why virtual machines?

1. Creating a vSphere Environment with AutoLab

• Building a lab environment with AutoLab
• Downloading necessary software
• Preparing VMware Workstation and deploying prebuilt VMs
• Setting up the domain controller VM
• Installing the ESXi hosts and vCenter Server

2. Introducing ESXi and vCenter

• Accessing the ESXi host from the console
• Using the Windows vSphere client
• Using the web client
• Adding an ESXi host

3. vSphere Networking

• Understanding vSphere networking basics
• Configuring lab networking

4. vSphere Storage

• Understanding vSphere storage basics
• Configuring iSCSI
• Creating data stores

5. Virtual Machine Management

• Creating a virtual machine
• Installing the operating system and VMware tools
• Creating a guest OS customization specification
• Performing a cloning operation
• Using templates
• Performing a vMotion migration
• Understanding snapshots

Conclusion

• Goodbye