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VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V5.1]

Achieve superior VMware vSphere skills with minimal time away from the office.

In this intensive, extended-hours course, you will focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere^® 5.1. You will explore topics covered in VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.1], as well as advanced tasks and skills for configuring a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. The course is based on VMware ESXi 5.1 and VMware vCenter Server 5.1. Approximately 40% of your class time will be devoted to 28 hands-on labs.

This fast-track course aligns to the VMware Certified Professional - Datacenter Virtualization (VCP5-DCV) exam objectives more closely than any other VMware training course, and it satisfies the coursework requirements for certification. You will receive one VCP5-DCV exam voucher.

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An official 255-question VMware practice exam is included to help you prepare for the VCP5-DCV certification exam.

What You'll Learn

Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage
Create, configure, migrate, manage, and monitor virtual machines and virtual appliances
Manage user access to the VMware virtual infrastructure
Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage
Implement VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT)
Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
Use vSphere distributed switches to scale networking
Use profile-driven storage and VMware vSphere Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler ™ to scale storage
Use VMware vSphere Update Manager™ to apply ESXi patches
Use VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) to manage vSphere
Deploy ESXi, vCenter Server, and VMware vCenter Server™ Appliance™
Use VMware vSphere ESXi Image Builder command line interface (CLI) to create an ESXi image
Use VMware vSphere Auto Deploy to provision ESXi hosts

Who Needs to Attend

Experienced system administrators
Experienced system integrators
Operators responsible for ESXi and vCenter Server

Prerequisites

Willingness to participate in a demanding,high-intensity training experience
Comfort with system administration using command line interfaces
Basic understanding of virtualization concepts

Follow-On Courses

Certification Programs and Certificate Tracks

This course is part of the following programs or tracks:

Course Outline

1. VMware Virtualization

Virtualization and vSphere components
Server, network, and storage virtualization
Fitting vSphere into the cloud architecture
Installing and using vSphere user interfaces
ESXi architecture and configure various ESXi settings

2. Creating Virtual Machines

Virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
Deploying a single virtual machine

3. VMware vCenter Server

vCenter Server architecture
Managing vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses

4. Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

Creating and managing a standard switch
Modifying standard switch properties
Configuring virtual switch load-balancing algorithms

5. Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

Storage protocols and device names
Configuring ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
Creating and managing VMware vSphere VMFS datastores
VMware vSphere Storage Appliance

6. Virtual Machine Management

Using templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
Modifying and managing virtual machines
Creating and managing virtual machine snapshots
Performing VMware vSphere vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® migrations
Creating a VMware vSphere vApp™
Using VMware vCenter Converter™ Standalone to hot-clone a system

7. Access and Authentication Control

Controlling user access through roles and permissions
ESXi host access and authentication
Integrating ESXi with Active Directory
VMware vShield™ products

8. Resource Management and Monitoring

Virtual CPU and memory concepts
Methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
Configuring and managing resource pools
Using vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage

9. High Availability (HA) and Fault Tolerance (FT)

vSphere HA architecture
Configuring and managing a vSphere HA cluster
Setting vSphere HA advanced parameters
Enabling FT on a virtual machine

10. Host Scalability

Using host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
Configuring and managing a VMware vSphere DRS cluster
Configuring Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
Using vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together
Configuring and managing VMware vSphere Distributed Power Management™

11. Network Scalability

Creating, configuring, and managing vSphere distributed switches, network connections, and port groups
Distributed switch features, such as private VLANs,discovery protocols, VMware vSphere Network I/O Control, NetFlow, and port mirroring

12. Storage Scalability

VMware vSphere Storage APIs - Array Integration and Storage Awareness
Profile-driven storage
Adding a storage policy to a virtual machine storage profile
VMware vSphere Storage I/O Control
Creating a datastore cluster
Configuring Storage DRS

13. Data Protection

Strategy for backing up ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
VMware vSphere Data Protection
Solutions for efficiently backing up virtual machines

14. Patch Management

Using Update Manager to manage ESXi patching
Installing Update Manager and the Update Manager plug-in
Creating patch baselines
Scanning and remediating hosts

15. VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)

Configuring vMA
VMware vSphere CLI command set
Performing command line operations for host management,network management, storage management, and performance monitoring

16. Installing VMware Components

vCenter Linked Mode to manage multiple vCenter Server inventories
ESXi installation
Boot-from-SAN requirements
vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
Installing vCenter Server (Windows-based)
vCenter Server Appliance
Installing and configuring vCenter Server Appliance
Using Image Builder to create an ESXi installation image
Using VMware vSphere Auto Deploy to deploy a stateless ESXi host

Labs

Lab 1: Install VMware vSphere Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)

Access your student desktop
Install VMware Client

Lab 2: Configure VMware ESXi

Connect to an ESXi host with the vSphere Client
Add a license key to the ESXi host
View the host hardware configuration
Configure the DNS and routing information for an ESXi host
Configure an ESXi host as an NTP client
Configure an ESXi host to use the directory services

Lab 3: Work with Virtual Machines

Create a virtual machine
Install a guest operating system in a virtual machine
Identify a virtual machine's disk format and usage statistics
Install VMware Tools on a virtual machine installed with a Windows operating system

Lab 4: Use VMware vCenter Server

Install vSphere license keys
Create a vCenter Server inventory datacenter object
Create vCenter Server inventory folder objects
Add your ESXi host to the vCenter Server inventory
Use the vSphere Web Client to log in to vCenter Server Appliance

Lab 5: Standard Virtual Switches

View the current standard virtual switch configuration
Create a standard virtual switch with a virtual machine port group
Attach your virtual machine to a virtual switch port group

Lab 6: Access ISCSI Storage

Add a VMkernel port group to a standard virtual switch
Configure access to an iSCSI software adapter

Lab 7: Access IP Storage

Configure access to NFS datastores
View iSCSI and NFS storage information

Lab 8: Manage VMware vSphere VMFS

Review your shared storage configuration
Change the name of a VMFS datastore
Create a VMFS datastore
Expand a VMFS datastore to consume unused space on a LUN
Remove a VMFS datastore
Extend a VMFS datastore
Clean up the inventory

Lab 9: Use Templates and Clones

Copy Sysprep files to the vCenter Server instance
Create a template
Create customization specifications
Deploy a virtual machine from a template
Clone a virtual machine that is powered on

Lab 10: Modify a Virtual Machine

Increase the size of a VMDK file
Adjust memory allocation on a virtual machine
Rename a virtual machine in the vCenter Server inventory
Add a raw LUN to a virtual machine and verify that the guest operating system can see it
Expand a thin-provisioned virtual disk

Lab 11: Migrate Virtual Machines

Configure the infrastructure to use a single vCenter Server (Part 1)
Configure the infrastructure to use a single vCenter Server (Part 2)
Use the Web Client to migrate virtual machine files with Storage vMotion
Create a virtual switch and a VMkernel port group for vMotion migration
Verify that your ESXi host meets vMotion requirements
Verify that your virtual machines meet vMotion requirements
Perform a vMotion migration of a virtual machine on a shared datastore
Perform a vMotion migration to a private datastore

Lab 12: Manage Virtual Machines

Unregister a virtual machine in the vCenter Server inventory
Register a virtual machine in the vCenter Server inventory
Unregister and delete virtual machines from disk
Take snapshots of a virtual machine
Revert to a snapshot
Delete an individual snapshot
Use the Delete All function in Snapshot Manager

Lab 13: Manage vApps

Create a vApp
Power on a vApp
Remove a vApp

Lab 14: Access Control

Log in directly to the ESXi host
Grant non-administrator access to a user
Explore the ESX Admins AD group
Create a custom role in vCenter Server
Assign permissions on vCenter Server inventory objects
Verify permission usability

Lab 15: Resource Pools

Create CPU contention
Create a resource pool named Fin-Test
Create a resource pool named Fin-Prod
Verify resource pool functionality

Lab 16: Monitor Virtual Machine Performance

Create CPU activity
Use vSphere Web Client to monitor CPU utilization
Undo changes made to your virtual machines

Lab 17: Use Alarms

Create a virtual machine alarm that monitors for a condition
Create a virtual machine alarm that monitors for an event
Trigger virtual machine alarms and acknowledge them
Disable virtual machine alarms

Lab 18: Use vSphere High Availability (HA)

Create a cluster enabled for vSphere HA
Add your ESXi host to a cluster
Test vSphere HA functionality
Determine vSphere HA cluster resource usage
Manage vSphere HA slot size
Configure a vSphere HA cluster with strict admission control

Lab 19: Configure VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance

Enable fault tolerance logging
Activate fault tolerance
Test fault tolerance
Disable fault tolerance

Lab 20: vSphere Distributed Switches

Create a distributed switch for the virtual machine network
Create a distributed switch port group
Migrate virtual machines to a distributed switch port group
Verify that your virtual machine has proper access to the production network

Lab 21: Port Mirroring

Back up the distributed switch configuration
Configure port mirroring on a distributed switch
Verify that port mirroring works properly
Restore the distributed switch configuration
Verify the distributed virtual switch configuration

Lab 22: vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler

Create load imbalance
Create a DRS cluster
Verify proper DRS cluster functionality
Create, test, and disable an affinity rule
Create, test, and disable an anti-affinity rule
Create, test, and disable a virtual machine to host an affinity rule

Lab 23: Work with Host Profiles

Create a host profile
Attach a host profile to an ESXi host and check compliance
Purposely introduce configuration drift
Check compliance again
Remediate the managed host
Detach the managed host from the host profile

Lab 24: Profile-Driven Storage

Create a VMFS datastore configuration for this lab
Create a user-defined storage capability
Create a virtual machine storage profile
Enable your host to use virtual machine storage profiles
Associate storage profiles with virtual machines

Lab 25: Manage Datastore Clusters

Create a datastore cluster enabled for Storage DRS
Perform a datastore evacuation with datastore maintenance mode
Manually run Storage DRS and apply migration recommendations
Acknowledge Storage DRS alarms

Lab 26: VMware vSphere Update Manager

Install Update Manager
Install the Update Manager plug-in into the vSphere Client
Modify cluster settings
Configure Update Manager
Create a patch baseline
Attach a baseline and scan for updates
Stage the patches onto the ESXi hosts
Remediate the ESXi hosts

Lab 27: Use VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)

Log in to vMA and connect to your vCenter Server and ESXi host
Create a standard virtual switch
Configure storage

Lab 28: Using Image Builder

Export an image profile to an ISO image

Lab 29: Configure VMware vSphere Auto Deploy on a Windows vCenter Server System

Install Auto Deploy
Configure the DHCP server and TFTP server for Auto Deploy
Use vSphere PowerCLI to configure Auto Deploy
Configure the ESXi host to boot from the network
View the autodeployed host in the vCenter Server inventory

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