VMware vSphere: Advanced Administration [V8]

Course Certification

This course helps you prepare to take the:
VMware Certified Advanced Professional Data Center Virtualization Deploy 2024 (VCAP-DCV Deploy 2024) Exam;

Course Outline

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Introduction to fictitious company: VMBeans

Module 2: Creating and Configuring Management Clusters

• Enable cluster features that help to improve resource allocation and availability of virtual machines
• Use standard virtual switches to create networking in a cluster
• Recognize when to use VMware vSphere® vMotion®
• Recognize requirements for using iSCSI
• Identify the purpose of iSCSI multipathing
• Select the appropriate vSphere storage types to meet requirements
• Recognize when to configure ESXi NTP support
• Recognize ESXi user account best practices
• Configure ESXi host settings
• Use host profiles appropriately

Module 3: Creating and Configuring Productions Clusters

• Use Cluster Quickstart to create a vSAN enabled cluster
• Configure advanced vSphere HA settings
• Recognize the benefits of Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
• Configure the vCenter Server identity provider
• Assign specific permissions and roles to ADFS users
• Recognize how Enhanced vMotion Compatibility benefits VM mobility
• Perform a Cross vCenter Server Migration
• Use content libraries to share virtual machine templates between sites

Module 4: Troubleshooting vSphere and Backing Up Configurations

• Troubleshoot ESXi connectivity issues
• Troubleshoot iSCSI storage issues
• Troubleshoot vSphere cluster resources
• Troubleshoot VMware PowerCLI™ issues
• Back up vCenter Server

Module 5: Lifecycle Management

• Troubleshoot upgrade-blocking issues
• Increase logging levels on vCenter Server
• Configure a VMware Tools™ shared repository
• Upgrade vCenter Server
• Upgrade ESXi
• Upgrade VMware Tools
• Upgrade Virtual Machine Compatibility
• Work with VM placement rules

Module 6: vSphere Security

• Manage advanced virtual machine configurations
• 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 Server certificates with trusted CA-signed certificates
• Deploy a new vCenter Server instance
• Reconfigure the primary network identifier for vCenter Server

Course Mode

Instructor-Led Remote Live Classroom Training;

Trainers

Trainers are VMware Official Instructors and certified in other IT technologies, with years of hands-on experience in the industry and in Training.

Lab Topology

For all types of delivery, the Trainee can access real Cisco equipment and systems in our laboratories or directly at the Cisco data centers remotely 24 hours a day. Each participant has access to implement the various configurations thus having a practical and immediate feedback of the theoretical concepts.
Here are some VMware vSphere Labs topologies available: