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VMware vSphere Operate, Scale and Secure v8 Training

LevelIntermediate
Duration5 Days
Experience3 years: VMware
Average Salary$82,000
LabsYes

Offered to the Jacksonville and Northeast Florida community through UNF Professional and Lifelong Learning in partnership with Applied Technology Academy — live online or in person, taught by ATA's practitioner instructors.

Course Overview

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

  • Configure and manage a VMware Tools Repository
  • Configure vSphere Replication and recover replicated VMs
  • Manage VM resource usage with resource pools
  • Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
  • Configure vCenter High Availability
  • Use host profiles to manage VMware ESXi host compliance
  • Use the vSphere Client to manage certificates
  • Monitor the vCenter, ESXi, and VMs performance in the vSphere client
  • Secure vCenter, ESXi, and VMs in your vSphere environment
  • Use VMware vSphere Trust Authority to secure the infrastructure for encrypted VMs
  • Use Identity Federation to configure the vCenter to use external identity sources
Course Outline
  • 1. Course Introduction
    • Introductions and course logistics
    • Course objectives
  • 2. Virtual Machine Operations
    • Recognize the role of a VMware Tools™ Repository
    • Configure a VMware Tools Repository
    • Recognize the backup and restore solution for VMs
    • Identify the components in the VMware vSphere® Replication™ architecture
    • Deploy and configure vSphere Replication and VMware Site Recovery™ instances
    • Recover replicated VMs
  • 3. vSphere Cluster Operations
    • Create and manage resource pools in a cluster
    • Describe how scalable shares work
    • Describe the function of the vCLS
    • Recognize operations that might disrupt the healthy functioning of vCLS VMs
  • 4. Network Operations
    • Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
    • Describe how VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control enhances performance
    • Explain distributed switch features such as port mirroring and NetFlow
    • Define vSphere Distributed Services Engine
    • Describe the use cases and benefits of VMware vSphere® Distributed Services Engine™
  • 5. Storage Operations
    • Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies
    • Describe the architecture and requirements of vSAN configuration
    • Describe storage policy-based management
    • Recognize components in the VMware vSphere® Virtual Volumes™ architecture
    • Configure Storage I/O Control
  • 6. vCenter and ESXi Operations
    • Create a vCenter backup schedule
    • Recognize the importance of vCenter High Availability
    • Explain how vCenter Server High Availability works
    • Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
    • Recognize the benefits of using configuration profiles
    • Use the vSphere client and the command line to manage certificates
  • 7. vSphere Monitoring
    • Monitor the key factors that can affect a virtual machine’s performance
    • Describe the factors that influence vCenter performance
    • Use vCenter tools to monitor resource use
    • Create custom alarms in vCenter
    • Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline™
    • Recognize uses for VMware Skyline Advisor™ Pro
  • 8. vSphere Security and Access Control
    • Recognize strategies for securing vSphere components, such as vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines
    • Describe vSphere support for security standards and protocols
    • Describe identity federation and recognize its use cases
    • Configure identity federation to allow vCenter to use an external identity provider
  • 9. vSphere Trusted Environments and VM Encryption
    • Configure ESXi Host Access and Authentication
    • Describe virtual machine security features
    • Describe the components of a VM encryption architecture
    • Create, manage, and migrate encrypted VMs
    • List VM encryption events and alarms
    • Describe the benefits and use cases of vSphere Trust Authority
Intended Audience

Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification:

  • Attend VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]
  • Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter
  • Experience with working at the command line is highly recommended.
  • Who should attend?
  • Experienced system administrators
  • System engineers
  • System integrators
Prerequisites

This course requires the following:

  • Attend VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage v8
  • Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter
  • Experience with working at the command line is highly recommended