Introduction

This five-day training course provides hands-on training to equip students with a range of skills, from performing routine VMware vSphere® 7 administrative and management tasks to complex vSphere operations and configurations. Through activities, participants are immersed in real-life situations faced by VMBeans, a fictitious company. These situations expose students to real-life scenarios faced by companies that are building and scaling their virtual infrastructure.

Training Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Configure and manage complex storage solutions in a vSphere environment (including NFS, iSCSI, and so on)

• Configure and manage complex, scalable vSphere networking operations (vSphere Standard Switch and Distributed Switches)

• Deploy, manage, and optimize virtual machines (advanced configuration, content library, latency-sensitive workloads, and more)

• Manage business continuity and operations in your vSphere environment (VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ file-based backup, VMware vCenter Server® profiles, host profiles, and so on)

• Plan and implement increased vSphere security (use a Key Provider, VM Encryption, CPU scheduler remediations, and so on)

• Troubleshoot the vSphere environment

• Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to upgrade to VMware ESXi™ hosts and virtual machines (VUM, image-based clusters, and so on)

• Implement vSphere cluster solutions (Cluster QuickStart wizard, VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™, VMware vSphere® High Availability, VMware vSAN™, and so on)

• Implement resource optimizations to streamline vSphere deployments

• Create an advanced configuration of vCenter Server (including an identity source)

Target Audience

• VMware administrators and virtualization engineers
• System administrators responsible for managing virtual infrastructure
• IT infrastructure engineers and data center specialists
• Cloud and virtualization professionals seeking advanced vSphere 7 skills
• IT support engineers working with enterprise environments
• Professionals preparing for roles in virtualization and data center management
• Experienced IT staff aiming to enhance troubleshooting, optimization, and security skills in VMware environments

Course Outlines

Day 1: Introduction & vSphere Environment Configuration

• Course introduction and overview of VMBeans case study
• vCenter Server configuration and administration
• External identity source configuration
• Advanced virtual networking configuration (Standard & Distributed Switches)
• Advanced storage configuration (NFS, iSCSI, etc.)
• vSphere cluster setup and Cluster QuickStart

Day 2: Advanced Virtual Machine & Cluster Management

• Advanced virtual machine deployment and optimization
• Latency-sensitive workload configuration
• Cluster advanced settings
• Host advanced configuration options
• Host profiles creation and management
• Content Library creation and configuration
• Virtual machine templates and VMware Tools repository

Day 3: Data Center Management & Operations

• vCenter Server log collection and analysis
• File-based backup of vCenter Server Appliance
• Working with vCenter Server profiles
• Role and permission management
• vSphere Lifecycle Manager (VUM & image-based clusters)
• Cluster management and remediation

Day 4: Troubleshooting vSphere Environment

• Troubleshooting vSphere configuration issues
• Network and storage troubleshooting
• ESXi host troubleshooting
• Resource pool issues
• vCenter Server performance and resource issues
• Practical troubleshooting scenarios

Day 5: Security, Performance & Optimization

• vSphere security implementation
  • Key Provider management
  • VM Encryption
  • CPU scheduler security settings
• Advanced virtual machine security configuration
• Resource optimization techniques
• Performance tuning in vSphere environments
• Final integrated review and best practices