
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
Online Training
Duration 5 days
Price (excl. tax)
- 4,250.— €
- VMware Training Credits: 65 VTC
Courseware language: English
Classroom Training
Duration 5 days
Price (excl. tax)
- Germany: 4,250.— €
- Switzerland: CHF 5,450.—
- VMware Training Credits: 65 VTC
- Coffee, Tea, Juice, Water, Soft drinks
- Pastry and Sweets
- Fresh fruits
- Lunch in a nearby restaurant
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Courseware language: English
Schedule
English
Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST) ±1 hour
2 hours difference
3 hours difference
7 hours difference
German
Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST) ±1 hour
Polish
Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST) ±1 hour
Italian
Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST) ±1 hour
Switzerland
Austria
Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST)
Europe
Italy
Time zone: Central European Time (CET)
Netherlands
Poland
United Kingdom
Middle East
Oman
Time zone: Gulf Standard Time (GST) Course language: English
Time zone: Gulf Standard Time (GST) Course language: English