VMware vSphere 7: install, configure, manage [v7] VCTA

This vSphere 7 training course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 7, which includes VMware ESXi 7 and VMware vCenter Server 7. This course prepares students 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 centre.

Course objectives:

• Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure.
• Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline.
• Install and configure ESXi hosts.
• Deploy and configure VMware vCenter Server Appliance.
• Use VMware vSphere Client 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.
• VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler.
• Discuss solutions for managing the vSphere life cycle.
• Use VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager™ to perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines.