Delivery method: Instructor-led, online, virtual labs

Duration: 3 days (one day a week for three weeks, check bootcamp schedule page for dates)

Audience: Anyone that is technical or wants technical knowledge

Technology requirements: Computer with stable internet connection

Certification: Be recognized with a TelecomTRAIN certificate of completion

Pre-course survey: A quick optional survey that allows us to cater parts of the course to your needs

Post-course consultation: Arrange a 30 minute followup call about related technical issues or career guidance within 30 days of course delivery (if you would like)

▶ Construct virtual machines as per hardware specifications

▶ Install and deploy Windows or Linux based virtual machines

▶ Set up small scale virtual network using bridge, host-only and NAT networking techniques

Approximate day-by-day coverage

Module 1: Introduction to Software-Defined Data Center

Explain basic virtualization concepts
Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage
Recognize the user interfaces for accessing the vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts
Use VMware Host Client to access and manage ESXi host

Module 2: Virtual Machines

Create and remove a virtual machine
Provision a virtual machine with virtual devices
Identify the files that make up a virtual machine

Module 3: vCenter Server

Describe the vCenter Server architecture
Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
Use the vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory
Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server
Monitor vCenter Server tasks, events, and appliance health
Use vCenter Server High Availability to protect a vCenter Server Appliance

Module 4: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

Create and manage standard switches
Describe the virtual switch connection types
Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping and load-balancing policies
Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches

Module 5: Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

Identify storage protocols and storage device types
Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores
Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
Deploy virtual machines on a VMware vSAN datastore

Module 6: Virtual Machine Management

Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
Modify and manage virtual machines
Dynamically increase the size of a virtual disk
Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
Create and manage virtual machine snapshots

Module 7: vSphere Cluster

Describe options for making a vSphere environment highly available
Explain the vSphere HA architecture
Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance
Configure a vSphere cluster using ESXi Cluster Quickstart
Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
Create a vSphere DRS cluster

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