VMware vSphere 7 Foundations Essential Training

Learn vSphere, the cloud computing virtualization platform from VMware, even if you are a beginner.

1. Configure and Manage vSphere and ESXi 7

• Overview
• Introduction
• Getting your VMware certification
• Introduction to virtualization
• vCenter 7 architecture and the Platform Services Controller (PSC)
• Demo: Installing ESXi 7 using the interactive installation
• Demo: Deploy the vCenter Server Appliance 7
• Demo: vCenter 7 VAMI
• Demo: Add ESXi hosts to the vCenter inventory
• Demo: Licensing vCenter and ESXi
• Basic ESXi host configuration
• Demo: Create a content library
• VMware Flings

2. Configure and Manage vSphere 7 Networking

• Chapter 2: Introduction
• Virtual networking in vSphere 7
• vSphere standard switch features
• vSphere distributed switches
• Virtual switch features in vSphere 7
• Demo: Create a vSphere 7 standard switch
• Demo: Create a vSphere 7 distributed switch
• Demo: Configure virtual switch features in vSphere 7

3. Configure and Manage vSphere 7 Storage

• Storage foundations in vSphere
• Storage virtualization concepts
• VMFS and NFS concepts
• NFS version 3 versus 4.1
• Demo: Create an NFS datastore in vSphere 7
• Fiber channel storage
• LUN masking and zoning
• Fiber channel over ethernet
• iSCSI storage concepts for vSphere 7
• Demo: Configure iSCSI in vSphere 7
• Introduction to Virtual SAN (vSAN)
• VSAN versus traditional storage

4. Deploy and Administer vSphere 7 VMs and Apps

• Overview
• Demo: Create a virtual machine (VM)
• Demo: Install VMware tools
• Demo: Update VMware tools on groups of VMs
• Demo: Inflate a thin-provisioned VMDK
• Demo: Configure a vApp for multitier applications
• Demo: Working with templates
• Demo: Clone a VM
• Demo: Import an OVF template
• Snapshots
• Demo: Working with snapshots
• Demo: Managing VM templates in an content library

5. Using vMotion to Migrate vSphere 7 VMs

• Migrate your VMs
• vMotion
• vSphere 7 vMotion enhancements
• Demo: Configuring vMotion in vSphere 7
• Demo: Performing a vMotion migration in vSphere 7
• Demo: Configure a scheduled vMotion in vSphere 7
• Storage vMotion concepts
• Storage vMotion improvements in vSphere 7
• Demo: Performing a storage vMotion in vSphere 7
• Demo: Shared nothing vMotion in vSphere 7

6. Administer Availability

• High-availability architecture in vSphere 7
• Basic vSphere high-availability architecture
• High-availability (HA) datastore heartbeats and host isolation
• HA failure scenarios
• Demo: Basic high-availability configuration
• vCenter high availability for vSphere 7
• Demo: vCenter 7 manual backup to an SMB share
• Demo: vCenter 7 scheduled backups and retention policies
• Fault tolerance
• Demo: Fault tolerance

7. Administer Resource Management Features in vSphere 7

• Overview
• Understanding vSphere resource pools
• Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) concepts
• DRS and vSphere 7: What's new?
• DRS affinity rules
• DRS and vCenter
• DRS and maintenance mode
• DRS and automation levels
• DRS and resource fragmentation
• Demo: Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

8. Basic vSphere 7 Troubleshooting

• Introduction
• Demo: Verify VM network configuration
• Demo: Verify host networking in ESXi 7
• VMware Skyline
• Gathering and uploading logs
• Demo: Working with alarms