VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V7] (VSFT7)

 

Course Overview

This five-day, intensive course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere® 7 management skills. Building on the installation and configuration content from our best-selling course, you will also develop advanced skills needed to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you will install, configure and manage vSphere 7. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size using vSphere 7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 7 and VMware vCenter Server® 7.

Product Alignment

  • ESXi 7.0
  • vCenter Server 7.0

Who should attend

  • System administrators
  • System engineers

Certifications

This course is part of the following Certifications:

Prerequisites

This course has the following prerequisites:

  • System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
  • Describe the software-defined data center (SDDC)
  • Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure
  • Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
  • Install and configure VMware ESXi™ hosts
  • Deploy and configure VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™
  • Use VMware vSphere® Client™ to manage the vCenter Server inventory and the vCenter Server configuration
  • Manage, monitor, back up, and protect vCenter Server Appliance
  • Create virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
  • Describe the storage technologies supported by vSphere
  • Configure virtual storage using iSCSI and NFS storage
  • Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores
  • Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
  • Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library
  • Manage virtual machine resource use and manage resource pools
  • Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
  • Create and manage a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™
  • Create virtual networks with VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™ and enable distributed switch features
  • Discuss solutions for managing the vSphere life cycle
  • Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines
  • Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
  • Describe how vSphere storage APIs help storage systems integrate with vSphere
  • Configure and use virtual machine storage policies

Course Content

  • 1 Course Introduction
  • 2 Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center
  • 3 Virtual Machines
  • 4 vCenter Server
  • 5 Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
  • 6 Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
  • 7 Virtual Machine Management
  • 8 Resource Management and Monitoring
  • 9 vSphere Clusters
  • 10 Network Scalability
  • 11 vSphere Lifecycle Management
  • 12 Host and Management Scalability
  • 13 Storage Scalability

Prices & Delivery methods

Online Training

Duration
5 days

Price (excl. VAT)
  • CHF 5,450.—
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Duration
5 days

Price (excl. VAT)
  • Switzerland: CHF 5,450.—
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Schedule

Instructor-led Online Training:   Course conducted online in a virtual classroom.
FLEX Classroom Training (hybrid course):   Course participation either on-site in the classroom or online from the workplace or from home.

English

Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST)

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Classroom option: Bratislava Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST)
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Classroom option: Bratislava Time zone: Central European Time (CET)

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Classroom option: Dubai Time zone: Gulf Standard Time (GST)
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Classroom option: Dubai Time zone: Gulf Standard Time (GST)
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Classroom option: Dubai Time zone: Gulf Standard Time (GST)
Online Training
Classroom option: Dubai Time zone: Gulf Standard Time (GST)
Online Training
Classroom option: Dubai Time zone: Gulf Standard Time (GST)
Online Training
Classroom option: Dubai Time zone: Gulf Standard Time (GST)
Online Training
Classroom option: Dubai Time zone: Gulf Standard Time (GST)

3 hours difference

Online Training
Classroom option: Dubai Time zone: Gulf Standard Time (GST)
Online Training
Classroom option: Dubai Time zone: Gulf Standard Time (GST)

6 hours difference

Online Training Time zone: Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

7 hours difference

Online Training Time zone: Central Daylight Time (CDT)
Online Training Time zone: Central Daylight Time (CDT)
Online Training Time zone: Central Daylight Time (CDT)
Online Training Time zone: Central Daylight Time (CDT)
Online Training Time zone: Central Daylight Time (CDT)
Online Training Time zone: Central Daylight Time (CDT)
Online Training Time zone: Central Daylight Time (CDT)
Online Training Time zone: Central Daylight Time (CDT)
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FLEX Classroom Training (hybrid course):   Course participation either on-site in the classroom or online from the workplace or from home.

Switzerland

Basel
Bern
Zurich
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Bern
Zurich
Basel
Bern
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Austria

Vienna (iTLS) This is a FLEX course in German language. Time zone: Central European Time (CET)

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