VMware Vsphere: Install, Configure, Manage (SF) – (Synchronous e-learning)
Course Code:
TGS-2018501516
Duration:
5 Days
Next Available Course Date:
3 Mar 2025
Delivery Mode:
Instructor-led Training (ILT)
Fees:
$4,305.50

(Before Funding)

Other Available Course Dates:

*Note: Please enquire within for available Saturday schedules.

This five-day 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 you 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 center.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Introduction to vSphere and the 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
  • Describe the ESXi host architecture
  • Navigate the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) to configure an ESXi host
  • Recognize ESXi host user account best practices
  • Install an ESXi host
  • Use VMware Host Clientâ„¢ to configure ESXi host settings
  • Describe how to proactively manage your vSphere environment using
  • VMware Skyline
Lesson 2: Virtual Machines
  • Create and provision a virtual machine
  • Explain the importance of VMware Toolsâ„¢
  • Install VMware Tools
  • Identify the files that make up a VM
  • Recognize the components of a VM
  • Recognize virtual devices supported by a VM
  • Describe the benefits and use cases for containers
  • Identify the parts of a container system
Lesson 3: vCenter Server
  • Describe the vCenter Server architecture
  • Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
  • Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
  • Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory
  • Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server
  • Use roles and permissions to enable users to access objects in the vCenter Server inventory
  • Back up vCenter Server Appliance
  • Monitor vCenter Server tasks, events, and appliance health
  • Use VMware vCenter Server® High Availability to protect a vCenter Server Appliance
Lesson 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
Lesson 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
  • Recognize the components of a VMware vSANâ„¢ configuration
Lesson 6: Virtual Machine Management
  • Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
  • Modify and manage virtual machines
  • Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library
  • Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine
  • Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
  • Describe the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility feature
  • Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
  • Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Replicationâ„¢
  • Describe the benefits of VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Data Protection
Lesson 7: Resource Management and Monitoring
  • Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment
  • Describe what overcommitment of a resource means
  • Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
  • Use various tools to monitor resource use
  • Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events
Lesson 8: vSphere Clusters
  • Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
  • Create a vSphere DRS cluster
  • Monitor a vSphere cluster configuration
  • 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
  • Describe the function of the vSphere® Cluster Service
Lesson 9: vSphere Lifecycle Management
  • Recognize the importance of vCenter Server Update Planner
  • Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Managerâ„¢ works
  • Describe how to update ESXi hosts using baselines
  • Validate ESXi host compliance using a cluster image
  • Describe how to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware
  • Describe VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Managerâ„¢ and VMware vSANâ„¢ integration

Course Fee (inclusive of 9% GST)

Criteria Individual Company Sponsored (Non-SME) Company Sponsored (SME)
Full Course Fee
$4,305.50
SG Citizens aged 21 – 39 years old / PRs aged 21 years old and above
$2,330.50
$2,330.50
$1,540.50
SG Citizens age 40 years old and above
$1,540.50
$1,540.50
$1,540.50
Course Prerequisite
This course requires students to have experience with System administration on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating.
Important Notes
All Trainees must take note of the following:
  1. Must attend at least 75% of the course before being eligible to take the assessments.
  2. Dynamic QR Code Attendance Taking:
    a. Scan the QR Code that will be displayed by the Trainer on each session. Use your SingPass App to scan and submit your attendance. If you fail to do so, you will be deemed absent from that session.
    b. The QR Code is only accessible on:
    • Morning Session: between 9.00 am to 1.00 pm.
    • Afternoon Session: between 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm.
    c. Please take the attendance one at a time as the system can only register you one by one.
  3. Sign daily on the Attendance Sheet as a backup if any technical glitch happens.
  4. Submit Course Evaluation by the end of each module to help us improve the course and your future learning experience with us.
The course completion requirements for this course as follow:
  1. Attended at least 75% of the course.
  2. Declared as competent during the assessments: Written Assessment, Practical Performance 1, Practical Performance 2.
Who Should Attend?
  • System Administrators
  • System Engineers

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