2-day Course 
Code: EDU-VSO6

Overview

This two-day technical classroom training course is designed to help operators and administrators who create and manage virtual machines. By combining lecture and hands-on labs the course will help you gain the skills required to work effectively with VMware virtual machines. This course is based on VMware ESXi™ 6.0 and VMware vCenter Server™ 6.0.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon successful completion of this course, students will:

• Describe virtualization, virtual machines, and vSphere components
• Describe the concepts of server, network, storage, and desktop virtualization
• Deploy, configure, clone, and manage virtual machines
• Use vCenter Server to monitor virtual machine resource usage
• Use VMware vSphere® vApp(s)™ to bundle and manage multiple interoperating virtual machines and software applications
• Use VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® to migrate virtual machines
• Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™, VMware vSphere® High Availability, VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance, VMware vSphere® Data Protection™, and VMware vSphere® Replication™ to optimize the performance of your vSphere virtual environment

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1 - Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course goals and objectives
• Online vSphere resources
• Location of online vSphere documentation

Module 2 - Introduction to VMware Virtualization

• Identify the differences between traditional and virtual architecture
• Identify the infrastructure components that can be virtualized
• Describe VMware virtualization concepts
• Describe the components and features of vSphere
• Describe inventory objects managed by vSphere
• Describe the features of vCenter Server

Module 3 - vSphere Client and vSphere Web Client

• Identify the differences between the VMware vSphere® Web Client and VMware vSphere® Client™ interfaces
• Access and navigate through the vSphere Web Client interface
• Use vSphere Web Client to monitor and manage vSphere objects
• Perform searches in vSphere Web Client
• Remove stored data from vSphere Web Client
• Apply roles and permissions to users and user groups

Module 4 - Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

• Create and manage virtual machines
• Install a guest operating system and VMware Tools™
• Explain how to use clones and templates to manage virtual machines
• Explain the importance of content libraries
• Configure virtual machines
• Manage virtual machines using snapshots
• Explain how raw device mapping (RDM) allows a virtual machine to directly access and use a storage device

Module 5 - Monitoring Virtual Machine Resources

• Explain virtual machine resource monitoring concepts
• Monitor virtual machine resource usage using vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms
• Describe and monitor tasks
• Describe, monitor, and manage events
• Describe, monitor, manage, and acknowledge alarms

Module 6 - Using vSphere vApp(s)

• Describe vApp(s)
• Explain the benefits of vApp(s)
• Create, edit, and manage a vApp
• Clone a vApp
• Manage the power status of a vApp

Module 7 - Migrating Virtual Machines

• Describe the types of migration
• Explain the importance of vSphere vMotion
• Identify the host and virtual machine requirements for vSphere vMotion
• Explain how to migrate virtual machines using vSphere vMotion
• Explain how to migrate storage with vSphere Storage vMotion
• Explain how to migrate virtual machines across virtual switches, vCenter Server systems, and long distances

Module 8 - Using vSphere for Scalability and Business Continuity

• Explain how vSphere DRS can be used to optimize the performance of the hosts and virtual machines in a cluster
• Explain how vSphere HA can be used to increase the availability of your virtual machines
• Explain how vSphere FT can be used for continuous availability of a virtual machine
• Explain how vSphere Data Protection and vSphere Replication can be used to replicate backup and restore data in your virtual environment