VMware - VMware vSphere: Install, Configure,

Manage [V6.5] - On Demand

Code: EDU-VSICM65-EL
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This course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware
vSphere® 6.5, which includes VMware ESXi™ 6.5 and VMware vCenter Server® 6.5. This course prepares you to
administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. It is the foundation for most other VMware
technologies in the software-defined data center.

Skills Gained
1. Describe the software-defined data center

2. Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure

3. Deploy an ESXi host

4. Deploy VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™

5. Use a local content library as an ISO store and deploy a virtual machine

6. Describe vCenter Server architecture

7. Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host

8. Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware Host Client™ and VMware vSphere® Web Client

9. Describe virtual networks with vSphere standard switches

10. Configure standard switch policies

11. Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage: VMware vSphere® VMFS, NFS, iSCSI, and RDM

12. Examine the features and functions of Fibre Channel and VMware vSAN™

13. Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots

14. Create, clone, and deploy a vApp

15. Describe and use the content library

16. Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion®

17. Use VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® to migrate virtual machine storage

18. Monitor resource usage and manage resource pools

19. Use esxtop to identify and solve performance issues

20. Discuss the VMware vSphere® High Availability cluster architecture

21. Configure vSphere HA

22. Manage vSphere HA and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance

23. Use VMware vSphere® Replication™ and VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ to replicate virtual machines

and perform data recovery

24. Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters to improve host scalability

25. Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches and perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts,

virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations

Who Can Benefit

1. System administrators

2. System engineer

Prerequisites
System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Course Details

Course Introduction
1. Introductions and course logistics

2. Course objectives

3. Describe the content of this course

4. Gain a complete picture of the VMware certification system

5. Familiarize yourself with the benefits of the VMware Education Learning Zone

6. Identify additional resources

Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center

1. Describe the topology of a physical data center

2. Explain the vSphere virtual infrastructure

3. Define the files and components of virtual machines

4. Describe the benefits of using virtual machines

5. Explain the similarities and differences between physical architectures and virtual architectures

6. Define the purpose of ESXi

7. Define the purpose of vCenter Server

8. Explain the software-defined data center

9. Describe private, public, and hybrid clouds

Creating Virtual Machines

1. Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files

2. Identify the files that make up a virtual machine

3. Discuss the latest virtual machine hardware and its features

4. Describe virtual machine CPU, memory, disk, and network resource usage

5. Explain the importance of VMware Tools™

6. Discuss PCI pass-through, Direct I/O, remote direct memory access, and NVMe
7. Deploy and configure virtual machines and templates

8. Identify the virtual machine disk format

vCenter Server
1. Introduce the vCenter Server architecture

2. Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance

3. Use vSphere Web Client

4. Back up and restore vCenter Server

5. Examine vCenter Server permissions and roles

6. Explain the vSphere HA architectures and features

7. Examine the new vSphere authentication proxy

8. Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses

9. Access and navigate the new vSphere clients

Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

1. Describe, create, and manage standard switches

2. Configure virtual switch security and load-balancing policies

3. Contrast and compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches

4. Describe the virtual switch connection types

5. Describe the new TCP/IP stack architecture

6. Use VLANs with standard switches

Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

1. Introduce storage protocols and storage device types

2. Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage

3. Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores

4. Describe the new features of VMFS 6.5

5. Introduce vSAN

6. Describe guest file encryption

Virtual Machine Management

1. Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines

2. Modify and manage virtual machines

3. Clone a virtual machine

4. Upgrade virtual machine hardware to version 12

5. Remove virtual machines from the vCenter Server inventory and datastore

6. Customize a new virtual machine using customization specification files

7. Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations

8. Create and manage virtual machine snapshots

9. Create, clone, and export vApps

10. Introduce the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them
Resource Management and Monitoring
1. Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts

2. Explain virtual memory reclamation techniques

3. Describe virtual machine overcommitment and resource competition

4. Configure and manage resource pools

5. Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage

6. Use various tools to monitor resource usage

7. Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events

8. Describe and deploy resource pools

9. Set reservations, limits, and shares

10. Describe expandable reservations

11. Schedule changes to resource settings

12. Create, clone, and export vApps

13. Use vCenter Server performance charts and esxtop to analyze vSphere performance

vSphere HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance, and Protecting Data

1. Explain the vSphere HA architecture

2. Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster

3. Use vSphere HA advanced parameters

4. Define clusterwide restart ordering capabilities

5. Enforce infrastructural or intra-app dependencies during failover

6. Describe vSphere HA heartbeat networks and datastore heartbeats

7. Introduce vSphere Fault Tolerance

8. Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines

9. Support vSphere Fault Tolerance interoperability with vSAN

10. Examine enhanced consolidation of vSphere Fault Tolerance virtual machines

11. Introduce vSphere Replication

12. Use vSphere Data Protection to back up and restore data

vSphere DRS
1. Describe the functions and benefits of a vSphere DRS cluster

2. Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster

3. Work with affinity and anti-affinity rules

4. Describe the new capabilities for what-if analysis and proactive vSphere DRS

5. Highlight the evolution of vSphere DRS using predictive data from VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™

6. Perform preemptive actions to prepare for CPU or memory changes

7. Describe the vCenter Server embedded vSphere Update Manager, VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Image Builder CLI,

and VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy capabilities

8. Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together for business continuity

vSphere Update Manager

1. Describe the new vSphere Update Manager architecture, components, and capabilities

2. Use vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi, virtual machine, and vApp patching

3. Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in

4. Create patch baselines

5. Use host profiles to manage host configuration compliance

6. Scan and remediate hosts

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