This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 7, which includes VMware ESXiTM 7 and VMware vCenter Server® 7. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size.

This course is the foundation for most of the other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.

• Describe the software-defined data center (SDDC)

• Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure

• Install and configure ESXi hosts

• Deploy and configure VMware vCenter® Server ApplianceTM

• Use VMware vSphere® ClientTM to manage the vCenter Server inventory and the vCenter Server configuration

• Manage, monitor, back up, and protect vCenter Server Appliance

• Create virtual networks with vSphere standard switches

• Describe the storage technologies supported by vSphere

• Configure virtual storage using iSCSI and NFS storage

• Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores

• Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots

• Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library

• Manage virtual machine resource use

• Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®

• Create and manage a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource SchedulerTM

• Discuss solutions for managing the vSphere life cycle

• Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle ManagerTM to perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines

Module 1: Course Introduction

Module 2: Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center

Module 3: Virtual Machines

Module 4: vCenter Server

Module 5: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

Module 6: Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

Module 7: Virtual Machine Management

Module 8: Resource Management and Monitoring

Module 9: vSphere Clusters

Module 10: vSphere Lifecycle Management

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