Course
Digicomp Code VAAW
VMware vSphere: Advanced Administration V8 («VAAW»)
Course facts
- Configuring VMware vCenter® and VMware ESXi™
- Configuring and managing a vSphere cluster solution for vSphere HA, vSphere DRS, and vSAN
- Configuring vSphere storage and networking
- Performing lifecycle operations on vSphere components
- Troubleshooting vSphere infrastructure and connectivity issues
- Backing up vCenter configurations
- Implementing solutions for securing the vSphere infrastructure
Through lab-based activities, participants are placed in real-world situations at a fictional company, VMBeans. These situations familiarize students with real-world scenarios that companies face when building and scaling their virtual infrastructure.
This course uses scenario-based lab exercises and does not provide step-by-step instructions. To complete the scenario-based lab exercises, you must analyze the task, conduct research, and derive the required solution. References and documentation suggestions are provided. In this course, participants learn how to effectively navigate and manage vSphere through exercises.
1 Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
2 Creating and Configuring Management Clusters
- Create a vSphere cluster for management workloads
- Activate vSphere cluster features that help to improve resource allocation and availability of virtual machines
- Use standard virtual switches to create networking in a cluster
- Select the appropriate vSphere storage types to meet requirements
- Configure iSCSI storage
- Configure VMFS and NFS datastores
- Recognize when to configure ESXi NTP and PTP support
- Recognize ESXi user account best practices
- Configure ESXi host settings
- Use vSphere configuration profiles to maintain consistent ESXi host configurations
3 Creating and Configuring Production Clusters
- Use Cluster Quickstart to create a vSAN-activated cluster
- Configure advanced vSphere HA settings
- Configure the vCenter identity provider
- Assign specific permissions and roles to Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) users
- Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility on a cluster and a VM
- Perform a Cross vCenter Server migration
- Use content libraries to share virtual machine templates between sites
- Manage VM and ESXi host resources using resource pools, scalable shares, and vSphere DRS rules
4 Troubleshooting vSphere and Backing Up Configurations
- Troubleshoot ESXi connectivity issues
- Troubleshoot ESXi storage issues
- Troubleshoot vSphere cluster issues
- Troubleshoot PowerCLI issues
- Generate vCenter and ESXi log bundles
- Back up vCenter
- Create a vCenter profile to standardize configurations in the environment
5 Lifecycle Management
- Troubleshoot upgrade-blocking issues
- Increase logging levels on vCenter
- Configure a VMware Tools™ shared repository
- Upgrade vCenter
- Upgrade ESXi
- Upgrade VMware Tools
- Upgrade virtual machine hardware compatibility
6 vSphere Security
- Configure a key management server
- Encrypt virtual machines using vSphere VM encryption
- Secure VMs in transit with encrypted vSphere vMotion
- Identify and implement different ESXi CPU scheduler options
- Apply security hardening guidelines to ESXi hosts
- Replace vCenter certificates with trusted CA-signed certificates
- Reconfigure the primary network identifier for a vCenter instance
• System administrators
• System engineers
We recommend attending the following courses or require the following knowledge:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale, and Secure
- Practical knowledge of VMware vSAN™
- Experience in system administration under Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
The course is fully aligned with the exam objectives for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Virtualization Deploy certification.
Official «VMware by Broadcom» training in cooperation with ExperTeach