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.

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.

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

• Configure and manage complex storage solutions in a vSphere environment (including NFS, iSCSI, and so on)
• Configure and manage complex, scalable vSphere networking operations (vSphere Standard Switch and Distributed Switches)
• Deploy, manage, and optimize virtual machines (advanced configuration, content library, latency-sensitive workloads, and more)
• Manage business continuity and operations in your vSphere environment (VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ file-based backup, VMware vCenter Server® profiles, host profiles, and so on)
• Plan and implement increased vSphere security (use a Key Provider, VM Encryption, CPU scheduler remediations, and so on)
• Troubleshoot the vSphere environment
• Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to upgrade to VMware ESXi™ hosts and virtual machines (VUM, image-based clusters, and so on)
• Implement vSphere cluster solutions (Cluster QuickStart wizard, VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™, VMware vSphere® High Availability, VMware vSAN™, and so on)
• Implement resource optimizations to streamline vSphere deployments
• Create an advanced configuration of vCenter Server (including an identity source)

• System administrators
• System engineer

This course requires the following prerequisites:

• Completion of VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7] course
• VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) certification
• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Introduction to fictitious company: VMBeans

2 Configure and Manage Your vSphere Environment

• Perform various vCenter Server configurations
• Configure an external identity source
• Configure virtual networking with advanced options
• Configure and manage advanced storage configurations
• Configure vSphere clusters (also using Cluster QuickStart)

3 Management and Operations in Your Data Center

• Collect vSphere log files
• Configure vCenter Server file-based backup
• Working with vCenter Server profiles
• Configure and manage advanced cluster settings
• Create and configure advanced host options
• Create and manage host profiles
• Manage and remediate clusters using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Create and configure a Content Library
• Update a managed virtual machine template
• Configure a central VMware ToolsTM installation repository
• Manage vSphere roles and permissions

4 Troubleshoot Your Data Center Environment

• Troubleshoot vSphere configuration issues
• Troubleshoot resource pool configuration issues
• Troubleshoot network and storage issues
• Troubleshoot ESXi host issues
• Troubleshoot vCenter Server resource issues

5 Increasing Security in Your Data Center

• Create and manage a Key Management solution
• Create an encrypted virtual machine
• Configure CPU scheduler options to achieve security remediations

6 Performance and Optimization in Your Data Center

• Manage advanced virtual machine configurations
• Identify and implement vSphere resource optimization opportunities