VMware vSphere: Advanced Administration Workshop [V7]

Course Introduction

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

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

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

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

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

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