VMware vSphere 6.5 Ultimate Bootcamp

Master VMware vSphere 6.5, the industry-leading virtualization platform, with our Ultimate Bootcamp designed for system administrators and engineers to enhance cloud computing skills efficiently.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Deploy and manage VMware vSphere 6.5 components effectively.

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Optimize vSphere infrastructure for maximum efficiency.

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Implement security measures to protect virtualization environments.

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Perform troubleshooting and maintenance of vSphere environments.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 5 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Experienced system administrators
  • Systems engineers
  • System integrators

Description

VMware vSphere® 6.5 is a vital component of the VMware vCloud Suite®. Currently it is the industry leading virtualization technology platform accelerating the shift to cloud computing. The Ultimate Bootcamp® has become known to be the most comprehensive VMware training course in the industry. This course combines several popular VMware vSphere classes into one concentrated delivery, saving time and money while providing an in depth look at VMware’s latest version release (6.5) in an accelerated learning format designed to immerse the student into the new features inherent to version 6.5. The VMware vSphere Ultimate Bootcamp course maximizes the students’ training experience with hands-on VMware vSphere labs based upon real-world scenarios and conducted with state-of-the art equipment. The Ultimate Bootcamp imparts students with the knowledge and skills necessary to maximize efficiency in the work place. The class will prepare the student to achieve the Certified Virtualization Expert 6.5 (CVE6.5) certification, which will demonstrate practical VMware vSphere knowledge and skills as a certified professional.

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Course Outline

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Course Introduction and Methodology

Virtualization Overview in vSphere 6.5

  1. Virtualization & Cloud Overview

  2. Other VMware and 3rd Party Virtualization Products

  3. What’s New in vSphere 6.5 Overview

Planning and Installing ESXi 6.5

  1. Planning ESXi 6.5 Host Deployment

  2. vSphere 6.5 Deployment Guidelines

  3. ESXi 6.5 Image Builder

  4. vSphere 6.5 Auto Deploy (GUI & Command Line)

  5. ESXi 6.5 Host Install

  6. Configuring Hostname Resolution and NTP

  7. Troubleshooting ESXi 6.5 Host

Using Tools to Administer a VMware Environment

  1. Overview of 3rd Party Tools

  2. ESXi Management

  3. Linux Command Review

  4. Troubleshooting the vSphere Client

vCenter Server 6.5 and Licensing

  1. Demystifying vSphere Licensing

  2. Planning vCenter Server 6.5 Deployment

  3. vCenter Server 6.5 Virtual Appliance & High Availability

  4. vCenter Server 6.5 Installation

  5. vSphere 6.5 Web Client & new vSphere Clients

  6. vCenter Server 6.5 Inventory

  7. Managing vCenter Server 6.5 & Backup/Restore

  8. Troubleshooting vCenter Server 6.5, License & Database

Configuring Networking

  1. Create & Modify Virtual Networks

  2. vSphere Distributed Virtual Switches & NIOC

  3. 3rd Party Distributed Switches

  4. Create & Modify Virtual Networks using CLI

Configuring Storage

  1. New Storage Features in vSphere 6.5

  2. Storage Concepts, Awareness & Profile Driven Storage

  3. iSCSI Storage

  4. Fibre Channel Storage & Software FCoE

  5. VMFS5 Datastores & new VMFS6 features

  6. NFS 3 & NFS 4.1 Datastores

  7. Raw Device Mapping

  8. Solid State Disks

  9. vSphere Flash Read Cache

  10. Storage & Management Solutions

  11. VMware Virtual SAN & vsanSparse snapshot

  12. VMware Virtual Volumes & VASA 3.0

VM Creation and Configuration & Snapshots

  1. Create a VM

  2. Create Multiple VMs, Templates & Clones

  3. Virtual Appliances

  4. Configuration & Use of vApps

  5. VMware vCenter Standalone Converter

  6. Manage VMs, PCI pass-through, Direct I/O, remote direct memory access, and NVMe

  7. Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown

  8. Virtual Machine Snapshots

  9. Troubleshooting Virtual Machines

Security and Permissions

  1. Controlling User Access and Passwords

  2. ESXi Lockdown Mode

  3. ESXi 6.5 AD Integration

  4. Managing ESXi 6.5 Firewalls

  5. VMware Certificate Authority & VMware Endpoint Certificate Services

Server and VM Monitoring

  1. Optimizing Resources

  2. Resource Pools

  3. Latency Sensitive Applications

  4. Performance Monitoring

  5. Configuring Alarms

  6. ESXi, vCenter Logs and syslog, NetFlow, Port Mirroring, esxtop

Advanced ESXi and vCenter Management

  1. Storage VMotion

  2. Configuring VMotion

  3. Distributed Resource Scheduler

  4. DRS Cluster Monitoring

  5. Storage Policy Based Management

  6. Storage Clusters & Storage DRS

  7. Host Profiles 6.5

  8. Enhanced Linked Mode

Patching and Upgrading vSphere vCenter ESXi

  1. Patching ESXi 6.5 & VCSA 6.5

  2. Patching with Update Manager

  3. Upgrading & Migrations from earlier vSphere versions to vSphere 6.5

Disaster Recovery, Backup and Deployment

  1. vSphere Replication 6.5

  2. Site Recovery Manager 6.5

  3. High Availability & Fault Domain Manager

  4. VM Fault Tolerance

  5. Microsoft Clustering

  6. Backup Strategies

  7. VMware Data Protection 6.5

  8. Third Party Backups

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