VMware vSphere Custom Troubleshooting Class
This class uses the standard VMware vSphere class outline as a base but adds additional focus on vSphere troubleshooting - giving students a more practical learning experience compared with the standard course introductory vSphere class.
Description
Overview
This powerful, fast paced 5-day class provides in-depth training on VMware vSphere 8.0. This course is intended for vSphere professionals who want to take their knowledge and skills to the next level. In this course, we assume that you already have a basic understanding of virtualization and work experience as a vSphere VM owner, as an operator or as a junior administrator. This could be on earlier versions of vSphere or on vSphere 8.0.
Now that Broadcom has completed its takeover of VMware and VMware prices have increased substantially, it is even more important than ever for you to maximize your ROI on your existing vSphere installation. This class will help you achieve that goal.
Who Should Attend
This course is popular with people who need to upgrade their VMware vSphere 8.0 knowledge and skills. People who attend this class do so because they want to:
- Go go deeper into vSphere features and capabilities
- Learn vSphere best practices
- Be able to diagnose vSphere issues
- Troubleshoot and fix common problems
- Upgrade vSphere 6.7 / 7.0 deployments to vSphere 8.0
- Learn how to use Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VM virtual hardware and VMware Tools
- Manage, review and configure ESXi hosts and vCenter from the command line
- Dig deep into performance issues with ESXtop
- Maximize scalability and performance while minimizing their spend on vSphere 8.0 subscription licenses
- Learn how to upgrade vCenter 6.7 or 7.0 to version 8.0
Course Objectives
The approach taken with this course is – Learn by doing as 45+% of class time is devoted to hands-on labs
By the end of the class, attendees will have learned practical, actionable skills in vSphere design, implementation, upgrading, sizing, scalability, performance optimization and troubleshooting.
Chapter List
Chapter 0 – Course Introduction
Chapter 1 – Install, Configure and Secure ESXi 8.0 (HoL1)
Chapter 2 – Virtual and Physical Networking (HoL1)
Chapter 3 – Advanced Virtual Networking (HoL1)
Chapter 4 – Connecting to NAS Shared storage (HoL1)
Chapter 5 – Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines (HoL1)
Chapter 6 – Upgrade and Configure vCenter Server Appliance (HoL1)
Chapter 7 – Virtual Machine Rapid Deployment (HoL1)
Chapter 8 – Upgrading ESXi hosts with Lifecycle Manager (HoL1)
Chapter 9 – Connecting ESXi to Shared Storage (HoL1)
Chapter 10 – Direct VM to SAN Access with Raw Device Maps (HoL1)
Chapter 11 – VMware File Systems (VMFS 6) (HoL1)
Chapter 12 – Storage Load Balancing with SDRS Clusters (HoL1)
Chapter 13 – VMotion Migration, Cold Migration, Storage Migration (HoL1)
Chapter 13 – Distributed Resource Scheduling Clusters (HoL1)
Chapter 15 – VMware High Availability Clusters (HoL1)
Chapter 16 – VMware Fault Tolerance (HoL1)
Chapter 17 – Distributed vSwitches Features and Scalability (HoL1)
Chapter 18 – Final Thoughts (HoL1)
Hands-On Labs
Attendees will complete the following hands-on lab tasks during the class:
- Install of ESXi 8.0 and perform post-install configuration steps
- Review ESXi services and configure ESXi firewall
- Enable ESXi Lockdown mode to prevent direct host configuration changes
- Create/update Standard vSwitch configurations
- Configure vSwitch Security Policies for Promiscuous Mode, MAC Address Changes and Forged Transmits
- Configure vSwitches, VMkernel NICs for Jumbo Frame use
- Configure and connect to NFS storage via GUI and CLI
- Create a new VM according to best practices
- Import and configure vCenter Server Appliance from the command line
- Perform an upgrade of vCenter Server Appliance to v8.0
- Use vCLI command line tools like esxcli, localcli, vmware-cmd and other commands to review, troubleshoot and configure your ESXi host
- Use esxtop to monitor resource use and pinpoint performance concerns
- Rapidly deploy VMs from Templates and Clones
- Review and size VM vCPU to maximize CPU performance
- Enable and use Hot-plug virtual hardware
- Monitor storage controller queue length and performance
- Monitor ESXi host and VM memory use
- Configure and use VMware Lifecycle Manager to update an ESXi host from ESXi 7.0 to ESXi 8.0
- Use VMware Lifecycle Manager to upgrade a VM’s virtual hardware
- Connect to an iSCSI SAN
- Create a new VMFS 6.0 file systems
- Create Storage DRS clusters and use Storage DRS to manage storage capacity and I/O load
- Expand VMFS 6.0 file systems using LUN Spanning and LUN expansion
- Create, configure and test vSphere High Availability Clusters
- Configure All Paths Down and Permanent Device Loss policies in an HA cluster
- Create a multi-core Fault Tolerant VM
- Create and test a VMware DRS compute load balancing cluster
- Create Distributed vSwitches
- Bulk migrate VMs from Standard to Distributed vSwitch networking
- Work with dvSwitch Configuration Backup Up and Restore
- Enable and use dvSwitch Health Management
- Using dvSwitch port shadowing
- Testing network health on dvSwitches
- Work with dvSwitch configuration roll back and recovery
1 HoL – Every attendee performs one or more Hands on Labs at the end of each chapter
Prerequisites
This is not a beginner level course. Attendees should have experience installing and configuring and administering earlier versions of vSphere such as vSphere 5.x, 6.x or 7.0.