VMware vSphere 5.5 Fast Track (VCP)

KEY FEATURES

During this VMware® vSphere 5.5 course you will learn everything from design, installation, configuration to performance monitoring and best practices.

What's Included

Your course package is designed to provide maximum learning and convenience. This is included in the price of your course:

• INSTRUCTOR-LED TRAINING
• ALL COURSE MATERIALS
• EXAM VOUCHER
• CERTIFICATION GUARANTEE
• INSTRUCTOR-LED TRAINING
• ACCOMMODATION
• ALL COURSE MATERIALS
• ALL MEALS
• EXAM VOUCHER
• CERTIFICATION GUARANTEE

EXAMS & CERTIFICATIONS

Your expert instructor will get you ready for the following exam and certification, which are included in your course package and covered by the Certification guarantee.

• Vmware Certified Professional- Data Center Virtualization (VCP550)
• VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV)

PREREQUISITES

You´ll have the perfect starting point for your training with these prerequisites:

- Two years of experience with Microsoft or Linux Servers
- Basic virtualisation or cloud computing knowledge

Full curriculum

Using our engaging learning methodology including a variety of tools, we’ll cover the entire curriculum.

Module 1 - Course Introduction

- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives

Module 2 - Introduction to VMware Virtualization

- Introduce virtualization and vSphere components
- Explain the concepts of server, network, and storage virtualization
- Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
- Install and use vSphere user interfaces
- Describe the ESXi architecture and configure various ESXi settings

Module 3 - Creating Virtual Machines

- Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
- Deploy a single virtual machine

Module 4 - VMware vCenter Server

- Introduce vCenter Server architecture
- Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses

Module 5 - Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

- Describe, create, and manage a standard switch
- Describe and modify standard switch properties
- Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms

Module 6 - Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

- Introduce storage protocols and device names
- Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores
- Introduce VMware vSphere® Storage Appliance

Module 7 - Virtual Machine Management

- Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
- Modify and manage virtual machines
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
- Perform VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® migrations
- Create a VMware vSphere® vApp™
- Use VMware® vCenter™ Converter™ Standalone to hot-clone a system

Module 8 - Access and Authentication Control

- Control user access through roles and permissions
- Discuss ESXi host access and authentication
- Integrate ESXi with Active Directory
- Introduce VMware® vShield™ products

Module 9 - Resourcing Management and Monitoring

- Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
- Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
- Configure and manage resource pools
- Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage

Module 10 - High Availability and Fault Tolerance

- Explain the vSphere HA architecture
- Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
- Set vSphere HA advanced parameters
- Enable FT on a virtual machine

Module 11 - Host Scalability

- Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
- Configure and manage a VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ cluster
- Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
- Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together
- Configure and manage VMware vSphere® Distributed Power Management™

Module 12 - Network Scalability

- Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches, network connections, and port groups
- Discuss distributed switch features, such as private VLANs, discovery protocols, VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control, NetFlow, and port mirroring

Module 13 - Storage Scalability

- Describe VMware vSphere® Storage APIs - Array Integration and Storage Awareness
- Explain profile-driven storage
- Add a storage policy to a virtual machine storage profile
- Introduce VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control
- Create a datastore cluster
- Configure Storage DRS

Module 14 - Data Protection

- Discuss a strategy for backing up ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
- Introduce VMware vSphere® Data Protection™
- Discuss solutions for efficiently backing up virtual machines

Module 15 - Patch Management

- Use Update Manager to manage ESXi patching
- Install Update Manager and the Update Manager plug-in
- Create patch baselines
- Scan and remediate hosts

Module 16 - VMware vSphere Management Assistant

- Describe vMA
- Configure vMA
- Discuss the VMware vSphere® Command-Line Interface command set
- Perform command-line operations for host management, network management, storage management, and performance monitoring

Module 17 - Installing VMware Components

- Describe vCenter Linked Mode to manage multiple vCenter Server inventories
- Introduce ESXi installation
- Describe boot-from-SAN requirements
- Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
- Install vCenter Server (Windows-based)
- Introduce vCenter Server Appliance
- Install and configure vCenter Server Appliance
- Use Image Builder to create an ESXi installation image
- Use VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to deploy a stateless ESXi host