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VMware vSphere Foundation: Build, Manage and Operate [9.0]

  • Length 5 days
  • Price  NZD 6900 exc GST
  • Version 9.0
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Why study this course

This course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in deploying, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® Foundation. You learn about the architecture of vSphere Foundation, compute, storage, networks, and licensing.

This course prepares you to administer a VMWare vSphere Foundation, which includes VCF Operations 9.0, vCenter 9.0, and ESX 9.0.

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What you’ll learn

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

  • Define the key features, use cases and, capabilities of vSphere Foundation

  • Navigating the VCF Operations user interface

  • Describe the licensing options and manage licenses for vSphere Foundation.

  • Describe the installation and configuration of ESX

  • Create virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches

  • Create and configure datastores using storage technologies supported by vSphere

  • Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots

  • Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines

  • Manage virtual machine resource allocation

  • Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion

  • Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler

  • Analysing the placement of VM objects and components in the vSAN Cluster

  • Creating custom views and policies in VCF operations

  • Describe vSphere Kubernetes and vSphere Supervisor Service

  • Deploy and configure vSphere Foundation

  • Deploy additional vSphere Foundation components such as VCF Operations Collector, VCF Operations for Logs, and VCF Operations for Orchestrator

  • Manage the life cycle of VCF Operations and vSphere components

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Who is the course for?

This course is ideal for system administrators, solution engineers, consultants, architects, and support personnel.

Course subjects

1. Course Introduction

  • Introduction and course logistics.

  • Course objectives.

2. VMware vSphere Foundation Overview and Architecture

  • Define the vSphere Foundation key features.

  • Explain vSphere Foundation use cases.

  • Explain the architecture of vSphere Foundation.

  • Explore the components of vSphere Foundation.

  • Introduction to VCF Operations.

  • List the steps to navigate the VCF Operations UI and vSphere UI.

3. License Management

  • Describe the process for managing and assigning licenses.

  • Enable VCF Operations integration for vCenter.

  • Explain license usage by product.

4. vSphere Foundation Compute

  • Explain basic virtualisation concepts.

  • Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center.

  • Describe vSphere architecture and use cases.

  • Recognise the user interfaces for accessing vSphere.

  • Install and configure ESXi host.

  • Create and organise vCenter inventory objects

5. vSphere Foundation Networking

  • Create and configure standard switch.

  • Create and configure distributed switch.

  • Differentiate between standard and distributed switches.

  • Explain how to set networking policies.

6. vSphere Foundation Storage

  • Recognise vSphere storage technologies.

  • Identify the 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.

7. Deploying Virtual Machines

  • Create and provision VMs.

  • Explain the importance of VMware Tools.

  • Manage a virtual machine from the vSphere client.

  • Manage virtual machine resources

  • List the steps to deploy virtual machines.

  • Clone VMs and create customisation specifications for guest operating systems.

  • Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries.

8. Virtual Machine Management

  • Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion.

  • Perform snapshots operations.

  • Specify CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits.

9. Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters

  • Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA.

  • Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster.

  • Recognise use cases for vSphere DRS settings.

  • Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures.

  • Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster.

  • Recognise vSphere HA design considerations.

  • Recognise the use cases for various vSphere HA settings.

  • Configure a vSphere HA cluster.

10. vSAN Management

  • Identify the features of vSAN.

  • Understand the key differences between vSAN OSA and vSAN ESA.

  • Explain the role of the performance leg and the capacity leg in vSAN ESA.

  • Examine vSAN ESA Object health states.

  • Compare how RAID-0/1/5/6 space consumption.

  • Identify vSAN component states.

11. vSphere Kubernetes Service Overview

  • Describe vSphere Supervisor Architecture and use cases.

  • Explain vSphere Supervisor Deployment Options.

  • Install vSphere Supervisor.

  • Explain Supervisor Storage vSphere Zones, Networking, and Storage.

  • Configuring and managing a supervisor.

  • Configuring vSphere Namespaces for Hosting VKS Clusters.

  • Managing vSphere Kubernetes Service Clusters.

12. VCF Operations Metrics

  • Outline the role of metrics in VCF Operations.

  • Create and configure views in VCF Operations.

  • Create and configure reports in VCF Operations.

  • Create and configure dashboards in VCF Operations.

  • Configure widget interactions.

  • Describe the purpose of using alerts.

  • Identify the components of an alert definition.

  • Create static symptom definitions.

13. vSphere Foundation Deployment

  • Prepare the infrastructure for VMware vSphere Foundation.

  • Identify the information required for the Planning and Preparation Workbook.

  • Explain the high-level steps to deploy vSphere Foundation.

  • Describe the procedure for downloading the software using online and offline modes.

  • Describe the vSphere Foundation workflow using the VCF Installer UI and JSON spec file.

  • Deploy and enable VCF Operations collector, VCF Operations for Logs, and VCF Operations Orchestrator

  • Deploy vCenter Server Appliance.

14. Managing the vSphere Foundation Lifecycle

  • Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner.

  • Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports.

  • Recognise features of VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager

  • Validate and update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager

  • Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, you should have:

  • Working experience and knowledge of VMware vSphere, VMware NSX, and vSAN environments

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