VMware vSphere 7 Professional

Explore key topics for understanding and using VMware vSphere 7 Professional effectively.

1. vSphere Networking

• VMware networking lab environment
• Foundations review: Virtual networking
• vSphere 7 standard switches
• vSphere 7 distributed switches
• Demo: Create a vSphere distributed switch
• Demo: Configure distributed port groups
• NSX-T 3.0 and vSphere 7
• Demo: vSphere 7 distributed switch features
• Demo: Configure distributed port group security settings
• Demo: Configure distributed port group NIC teaming and failover
• Demo: Configure traffic shaping on a port group
• Demo: Migrate VMs to a vSphere 7 distributed switch
• Demo: Verify network configuration in vSphere 7
• Network IO control (NIOC) in vSphere 7
• Demo: Configure network IO control (NIOC)
• Private VLANs
• Demo: Configure private VLANs in vSphere 7
• Demo: Configure port mirroring in vSphere 7
• Demo: Configure NetFlow on a vSphere distributed switch (vDS)

2. vSphere Storage

• VMware storage lab environment
• Storage performance overview
• VMFS and NFS datastores on vSphere 7
• NFS version 3 and NFS version 4.1
• Demo: Create an NFS datastore in vSphere 7
• Introduction to iSCSI storage
• Demo: Connect an ESXi host to an iSCSI storage array
• Demo: Create a VMFS6 datastore
• Demo: Expand a VMFS datastore
• Demo: Storage port bindings and Multipathing policies
• Dependent hardware iSCSI and ESXi 7
• Independent hardware iSCSI and ESXi 7
• Introduction to storage DRS (SDRS)
• Demo: Create a storage DRS cluster (SDRS) in vSphere 7
• vSAN vs. traditional storage arrays
• vSAN basic architecture
• vSAN disk groups
• Demo: vSAN network configuration for vSphere 7
• Demo: Create a vSAN cluster
• Virtual volumes (VVOL)
• Demo: Storage IO control (SIOC) for vSphere 7

3. vSphere Monitoring Tools

• VMware networking lab environment
• The vSphere CPU scheduler
• Memory virtualization
• Demo: VM performance charts in vSphere 7
• Introduction to ESXTOP in ESXi 7
• Demo: Using ESXTOP to monitor an ESXi 7 host

4. Securing Deployments

• VMware networking lab environment
• vCenter single sign-on (SSO)
• vCenter single-sign On (SSO) configuration
• vCenter 7 identity federation
• Demo: Roles and permissions for vSphere 7
• Demo: VM encryption for vSphere 7
• Demo: Secure boot and encrypted vMotion
• Demo: Working with the ESXi 7 host firewall
• Demo: Configure lockdown mode on an ESXi 7 host

5. vSphere Updates and Upgrades

• VMware networking lab environment
• Lifecycle Manager
• vSphere 7 update planner
• Demo: Assign licenses to vCenter and ESXi
• Demo: Install VMware tools on a single VM in vSphere 7
• Demo: Update VMware tools for vSphere 7
• Demo: Update VM virtual hardware for vSphere 7
• Upgrading ESXi 6.7 to ESXi 7
• Demo: Interactive ESXi 6.7 upgrade to ESXi 7
• Demo: Upgrade ESXi 6.5 to ESXi 7 using Lifecycle Manager
• Demo: Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance from 6.7 to 7

6. Deploying vSphere VMs and Hosts

• VMware networking lab environment
• About this Section
• Demo: How to Register and Un-Register a VM in vSphere 7
• Demo: Working with VMX Files in vSphere 7
• Demo: VM Advanced Settings in vSphere 7
• Demo: Deploying VMs using vCenter Converter
• Assignable Hardware
• Using Auto Deploy to Image ESXi Hosts

7. vSphere Resource Management

• VMware networking lab environment
• Demo: Resource reservations and limits on a vSphere 7 VM
• Demo: Configuring shares on a vSphere 7 VM
• Demo: CPU hot plug and memory hot add for VMs
• Resource pools and vApps
• Scalable shares in vSphere 7
• Demo: Create resource pools in vSphere 7
• Demo: Expandable reservations in vSphere 7
• Demo: Configure vApps for multi-tier applications

8. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

• VMware networking lab environment
• About this section
• DRS enhancements in vSphere 7
• Demo: Create a DRS cluster in vSphere 7
• Demo: DRS VM distribution and CPU over-commitment
• Demo: DRS Distributed Power Management (DPM)
• Demo: Migrating hosts and resource pools to a DRS Cluster
• Demo: Monitor a DRS cluster
• Demo: DRS 7 affinity rules, groups, and VM overrides
• Demo: Avoiding downtime with DRS and Maintenance Mode in vSphere 7

9. Troubleshooting, Backup, and Recovery

• VMware troubleshooting lab environment
• Troubleshooting using ESXi management agents
• Working with vCenter 7 logs
• Demo: Working with ESXi 7 host logs

10. Advanced vSphere Management

• VMware networking lab environment
• vCenter 7 multihoming
• Demo: Configure vCenter 7 multihoming
• Demo: vCenter 7 PNID and FQDN changes
• vCenter server profiles
• vCenter and dynamic DNS
• Demo: Precision Time Protocol in ESXi 7
• vSphere Cluster Quickstart
• Introduction to microservices
• Introduction to containers
• vSphere and Kubernetes
• Tanzu Kubernetes grid cluster