Mega Course – VMware vSphere 6.7 – 100% Hands-on Lab Demos

16+hrs of 100% hands-on lab demos for those who learn best by doing. For VMware certification, VCP/VCAP, building skills

Created by: Larry Karnis (Teaching VMware vSphere, ESXi and vCenter for 21+ years)
VMware vSphere Consultant / Trainer, VCP vSphere 2, 3, 4, 5

What Will I Learn?

• You will see how to install and configure ESXi 6.7 according to best practices
• How to create and configure Standard Virtual Switches
• How to work with advanced vSwitch settings like Security and Jumbo Frames
• Understand and configure NFS file shares according to best practices
• How to create Virtual Machines (VMs) starting with Virtual Hardware, how to install a Guest Operating system, how to add VMware Tools and how to customize the OS according to best practices
• How to install vCenter Server Appliance and how to do post install configuration tasks such as adding vCenter to Active Directory, how to configure inventory views and how to grant AD members administrator rights over vCenter
• You will learn how to build Template VMs and how to use Templates to rapidly deploy new Virtual Machine
• You will learn about the Permission Model in vSphere 6.7 including the purpose of Roles
• You will see how to connect your ESXi host to iSCSI Shared storage, how to scan for new SAN volumes and how to review those volumes within Web Client
• How to connect VMs directly to SAN volumes using Raw Device Maps
• You will learn how to create new VMFS datastores and how to expand VMFS datastores using LUN expansion and LUN spans
• You will see how to create, monitor and use vCenter Alarms to stay ahead of inventory health, capacity and state issues
• You will learn about resource delegations using Resource Pools, how to use Reservations, Shares and Limits to ensure that resources are delegated in a predictable manner
• You will learn how to perform VM migrations, including powered off "Cold" migrations, VMotion hot migrations and Storage VMotion data migrations
• You will learn how efficiently automate resource management with Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) load balanced clusters
• You will learn how to deliver 99.99+% VM uptime with VMware High Availability clusters
• How to deliver 100% VM uptime (zero unplanned downtime) with Fault Tolerance
• You will learn how keep your ESXi hosts fully patched and updated using VMware Update Manager
• How to create, configure and migrate to vSphere Distributed Virtual Switches
• How to assign storage capabilities to a datastore (speed, replication, etc.) and how to set VM storage placement rules to ensure that your VMs always reside on correct storage
• How to create Storage Load Balanced clusters to balance storage for capacity and I/O bandwidth
• How to use IOMeter to benchmark VMs for vNetwork and vDisk performance

Requirements

• I assume you have basic Windows or Linux system administration skills
• An understanding of basic networking including physical NICs and switches and IPv4 addressing
• An understanding of basic PC hardware including CPUs, memory, networking and storage hardware
• Prior experience with any virtualization platform is helpful but not required
• A desire to learn and a willingness to see the course through to the end

Target audience

• This course is designed and built for people who learn best by doing rather than just talking about IT
• System administrators who want to transition into a VMware vSphere operations or administration role
• Junior vSphere operators or administrators who want to skill up and take on new tasks
• Administrators with any experience using vSphere 5.x or 6.0 / 6.5, who want to see "how it works" using vSphere 6.7
• Any vSphere administrator who needss to see how to perform a task before they do it themselves
• Anyone who infrequently performs specific tasks and who wants a quick refresher before moving ahead with the task