VMware vSphere 6.0: Install, Configure, Manage

Introduction to Software Defined Data Center

• Introduction to components of the Software-Defined Data Center
• Find where vSphere fits into cloud architecture
• Deploy and use vSphere client
• ESXI overview

Developing virtual machines

• Introduction to virtual machines
• Introduction to virtual machine hardware and its machine files
• Establish virtual machines
• Work with virtual machines

Introduction to vCenter Server in VMware

• Introduction to vCenter Server Architecture
• Implement vCenter Server appliance
• Configure vCenter Server appliance
• Install and make use of vSphere Web Client
• Manage Vcenter Server inventory objects
• Manage vCenter Server Inventory Licenses
• Understand benefits of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility

Virtual Networks Configuration and Management

• Develop and manage standard switches
• Alter properties of Standard Switch
• Virtual Switch Load-Balancing Algorithms configuration
• Establish, configure and manage vSphere Distributed Switches
• Establish, configure and manage Network Connections, and Port Groups

Virtual Storage configuration and management

• Understand storage protocols and names of Storage devices
• Discuss ESXI with fibre channel storage, NFS and iSCSI
• Develop and manage VMware vSphere VMFS datastores
• VMware Virtual SAN overview

Management of Virtual Machines

• Learn to use templates to deploy virtual machines
• Deploy Virtual Machines using cloning
• Virtual machines Alteration and management
• Perform vSphere Storage vMotion and vSphere vMotion migration
• Develop virtual machine snapshots
• Virtual Machine Snapshots management
• Create a vApp
• Understand various types of content libraries
• Effectively Deploy and use content libraries

Management and monitoring of Resources

• Overview of Virtual CPU
• Memory Concepts
• Resource pools configuration and management
• Enhance performance of CPU
• Optimise usage of memory
• Use VCenter Server Performance graphs
• Develop and use Alarms to report various events or conditions
• vRealize Operations Manager for Data Center Monitoring and Management Overview

vSphere HA and vSphere Fault Tolerance

• Introduction to vSphere HA Architecture
• vSphere HA Cluster configuration and management
• Use Advanced parameters of vSphere HA
• Overview of fault tolerance
• Deploy vSphere Fault Tolerance on Virtual Machines
• Overview of vSphere Replication
• To Back Up and Restore Data use vSphere Data Protection to

Host Scalability

• vSphere DRS Cluster functions
• vSphere DRS Cluster configuration and management
• Work with Anti-Affinity Rules and Affinity
• Use vSphere DRS and vSphere HA Together

 vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance

• To manage ESXi patching use vSphere Update Manager
• Install vSphere Update Manager
• Install plug-ins of vSphere Update Manager
• Develop Patch Baselines
• Manage ESXi Configuration Compliance using host compliance
• Scan hosts
• Remediate Hosts

Instal Components of VMware

• Install ESXi
• Boot-from-SAN Requirements
• Overview of vCenter Server Deployment Options
• Requirements of vCenter Server Hardware and Software
• vCenter Server Database Requirements
• Install vCenter Server Appliance
• Install vCenter Server Instance