VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] (VSICM8)

Aan het einde van de training zou je in staat moeten zijn om aan de volgende doelstellingen te voldoen:

• Beschrijf het software-defined datacenter (SDDC)
• Leg de vSphere-componenten en hun functie in de infrastructuur uit
• Installeer en configureer VMware ESXi -hosts
• Implementeer en configureer VMware vCenter Server Appliance
• Gebruik VMware vSphere Client om de vCenter Server-inventaris en de vCenter Server-configuratie te beheren
• Beheer, bewaak, maak back-ups en bescherm vCenter Server Appliance
• Creeer virtuele netwerken met standaard vSphere-switches
• Beschrijf de opslagtechnologien die worden ondersteund door vSphere
• Configureer virtuele opslag met iSCSI- en NFS-opslag
• Creeer en beheer VMware vSphere VMFS-datastores
• Gebruik de vSphere Client om virtuele machines, sjablonen, klonen en snapshots te maken
• Maak een inhoudsbibliotheek en implementeer virtuele machines vanuit sjablonen in de bibliotheek
• Beheer het gebruik van virtuele machines
• Migreer virtuele machines met VMware vSphere, vMotion en VMware vSphere Storage vMotion
• Maak en beheer een vSphere-cluster die is ingeschakeld met VMware vSphere High Availability en VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
• Bespreek oplossingen voor het beheren van de vSphere-levenscyclus
• Gebruik VMware vSphere Update Manager om patches toe te passen en upgrades uit te voeren op ESXi-hosts en virtuele machines

Deze training is bedoeld voor:

• System administrators
• System engineers

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

vSphere and Virtualization Overview

• Explain basic virtualization concepts
• Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
• Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
• Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs

Installing and Configuring ESXi

• Install an ESXi host
• Recognize ESXi user account best practices
• Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client

Deploying and Configuring vCenter

• Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter
• Deploy vCenter Server Appliance
• Configure vCenter settings
• Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys
• Create and organize vCenter inventory objects
• Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions
• View vCenter logs and events

Configuring vSphere Networking

• Configure and view standard switch configurations
• Configure and view distributed switch configurations
• Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches
• Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches

Configuring vSphere Storage

• Recognize vSphere storage technologies
• Identify types of vSphere datastores
• Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing
• Describe iSCSI components and addressing
• Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi
• Create and manage VMFS datastores
• Configure and manage NFS datastores

Deploying Virtual Machines

• Create and provision VMs
• Explain the importance of VMware Tools
• Identify the files that make up a VM
• Recognize the components of a VM
• Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options
• Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources
• Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them
• Clone VMs
• Create customization specifications for guest operating systems
• Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries
• Deploy VMs from content libraries
• Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries

Managing Virtual Machines

• Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances
• Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion
• Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations
• Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion
• Take a snapshot of a VM
• Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots
• Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment
• Describe how VMs compete for resources
• Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits

Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters

• Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
• View information about a vSphere cluster
• Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster
• Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings
• Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster
• Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures
• Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster
• Recognize vSphere HA design considerations
• Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings
• Configure a vSphere HA cluster
• Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance

Managing the vSphere Lifecycle

• Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
• Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner
• Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports
• Recognize features of VMware vSphere? Lifecycle Manager?
• Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images
• Describe how to update hosts using baselines
• Describe ESXi images
• Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and update ESXi hosts
• Update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations
• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware

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