Course Details
This intensive, extended-hours training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware© vSphere© 5.5. This course combines the content of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course with advanced tasks and skills for configuring a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. The course is based on VMware© ESXi? 5.5 and VMware© vCenter Server? 5.5. Approximately 40% of class time is devoted to completing hands-on labs.
This fast-track course satisfies the courseware requirement for the VMware Certified Professional – Datacenter Virtualization (VCP5-DCV) exam, and it includes one VCP5-DCV exam voucher.
Course Prerequisites
- System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
- Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course for VCA-DCV certification
Course Agenda
1. Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
2. Software-Defined Data Center
- Introduce virtualization and vSphere components
- Explain the concepts of server, network, and storage virtualization
- Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
- Install and use vSphere user interfaces
- Describe the ESXi architecture and configure various ESXi settings
3. Creating Virtual Machines
- Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
- Deploy a single virtual machine
4. VMware vCenter Server
- Introduce vCenter Server architecture
- Introduce vCenter Server Appliance
- Install and configure vCenter Server Appliance
- Using the VMware vSphere© Web Client
- Configuring VMware© vCenter™ Single Sign-On™
- Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
5. Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
- Describe, create, and manage a standard switch
- Describe and modify standard switch properties
- Describe the NIC teaming of a standard switch port group
6. Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
- Introduce storage protocols and device names
- Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Create and manage VMware vSphere© VMFS datastores
- Introduce VMware© Virtual SAN™ datastores
7. Virtual Machine Management
- Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
- Modify and manage virtual machines
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
- Perform VMware vSphere© vMotion© and VMware vSphere© Storage vMotion© migrations
- Create a VMware vSphere© vApp™
8. Access and Authentication Control
- Control user access through roles and permissions
- Discuss ESXi host access and authentication
- Integrate ESXi with Active Directory
9. Resource Management and Monitoring
- Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
- Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
- Configure and manage resource pools
- Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage
10. High Availability and Fault Tolerance
- Explain the vSphere HA architecture
- Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
- Set vSphere HA advanced parameters
- Enable vSphere FT on a virtual machine
- Describe VMware vSphere© Replication
11. Network Scalability
- Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches, network connections, and port groups
- Discuss distributed switch features, such as private VLANs, discovery protocols, VMware vSphere© Network I/O Control, NetFlow, and port mirroring
12. Host Scalability
- Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
- Configure and manage a VMware vSphere© Distributed Resource Scheduler™ cluster
- Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
- Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together