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

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
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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