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VMware vSphere: Advanced Administration Workshop [V7]

Course Summary:

This five-day course provides hands-on training to equip students with a range of skills: from performing routine VMware vSphere® 7 administrative tasks to complex vSphere operations and configurations. Through lab-based activities, students are immersed in real-life situations faced by VMBeans, a fictitious company. These situations expose students to real-life scenarios faced by companies that are building and scaling their virtual infrastructure. This course uses scenario-based lab exercises and does not provide guided step-by-step instructions. To complete the scenario-based lab exercises, you are required to analyze the task, research, and deduce the required solution. References and suggested documentation are provided. Approximately 90% of the class is application-focused and taught through labs. The course aligns fully with the VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization Deploy exam objectives. Formats • Classroom • Live Online • vFlex-ILT • Private Training

Course Duration: 5 Days

Course Content:

1 Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

Introduction to fictitious company: VMBeans

2 Creating and Configuring Management Clusters

Enable cluster features that help to improve resource allocation and availability of virtual machines
Use standard virtual switches to create networking in a cluster
Recognize when to use VMware vSphere® vMotion®
Recognize requirements for using iSCSI
Identify the purpose of iSCSI multipathing
Select the appropriate vSphere storage types to meet requirements
Recognize when to configure ESXi NTP support
Recognize ESXi user account best practices
Configure ESXi host settings
Use host profiles appropriately

3 Creating and Configuring Productions Clusters

Use Cluster Quickstart to create a vSAN enabled cluster
Configure advanced vSphere HA settings
Recognize the benefits of Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
Configure the vCenter Server identity provider
Assign specific permissions and roles to ADFS users
Recognize how Enhanced vMotion Compatibility benefits VM mobility
Perform a Cross vCenter Server Migration
Use content libraries to share virtual machine templates between sites

4 Troubleshooting vSphere and Backing Up Configurations

Troubleshoot ESXi connectivity issues
Troubleshoot iSCSI storage issues
Troubleshoot vSphere cluster resources
Troubleshoot VMware PowerCLI™ issues
Back up vCenter Server

5 Lifecycle Management

Troubleshoot upgrade-blocking issues
Increase logging levels on vCenter Server
Configure a VMware Tools™ shared repository
Upgrade vCenter Server
Upgrade ESXi
Upgrade VMware Tools
Upgrade Virtual Machine Compatibility
Work with VM placement rules

6 vSphere Security

Manage advanced virtual machine configurations
Configure a key management server
Encrypt virtual machines using vSphere VM encryption
Secure VMs in transit with encrypted vSphere vMotion
Identify and implement different ESXi CPU scheduler options
Apply security hardening guidelines to ESXi hosts
Replace vCenter Server certificates with trusted CA-signed certificates
Deploy a new vCenter Server instance
Reconfigure the primary network identifier for vCenter Server