Overview/Description Target Audience Expected Duration Lesson Objectives Course Number Overview/Description
vSphere 6.0 Part Two is a continuation of course 1. In course 1, we focused upon the basic understanding of virtualization, its installation and management within the confines of a small environment. In course two we expand out into a larger environment and explore some of the advanced feature that provide business continuity solutions. We also explore advanced resource management, vSphere monitoring, design frameworks, and upgrade management within this course.
Prerequisites
To benefit fully from this course, the following prerequisite courses, skills, and knowledge are strongly recommended:
Comptia N+ knowledge base (equivalent or greater)
Two years’ experience in server management (windows or other)
Nine months experience of shared storage infrastructure
Three months experience with ESXi or equivalent training
Skills
This course provides instruction in the use of the following hardware/software technologies:
vMotion Migration
High Availability Clusters (HA Clusters)
Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS)
Fault Tolerance
Shares, Limits, Reservation
Resource Pools
Alarms and Automating Tasks
Host Profiles and Storage Profiles
Monitoring and Reporting
Update Manager
Upgrading to vSphere 6.0
Outline
vSphere 6.0 ICM Part Two
Module 6: Clustering
Lesson 1: Clustering Basics
Basics
When to cluster
vMotion
Storage vMotion
vMotion Limitations
Lesson 2: Fault Tolerance
Basics
Requirements
Testing
Tips
Lesson 3: High Availability
Basics
Enabling HA
Host Monitoring
Admission Control
VM Monitoring
Datastore Heartbeating
Lesson 4: Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
Basics
Enabling DRS
Configuring Automation Levels
DRS Rules, Groups, and VM Overrides
DRS Scheduling
DRS Monitoring
DRS Power Management (DPM)
Storage DRS
Module 7: Monitoring and Profiles
Lesson 1: Monitoring and Reporting
Performance Charts
Tasks
Events
Hardware Status
Logs
Tags
Searches
Lesson 2: Alarms and Scheduled Tasks
Alarms
Configuration
Viewing
Clearing
Scheduled Tasks
Lesson 3: Profiles
Host Profiles
Overview
Creating
Attaching
Compliance
Remediation
Storage Policies
Create
Apply
Module 8: Advanced Resource Management and Basic Design
Lesson 1: Advanced Resource Management
Cluster Resources
Resource Pools
Resource Allocation
vApps
Resource Allocation
Resource Management
Lesson 2: Basic Design Principles
Discovery
Conceptual
Logical
Physical
Testing
Adjustments
Module 9: Patching and Upgrading vSphere
Lesson 1: Update Manager
Update Manager
Installation
Plug-in
Update Manager Interface
Lesson 2: Administrative View
Configurations Options:
Network Connectivity
Download Settings
Download Schedule
Notification Check
Virtual Machine Settings
ESXi Host Cluster Settings
Cluster Settings
PXE Boot
vApp
Lesson 3: Other Options for the Administrative View
Patch Repository
Imported ESXi Images
Events and Notifications
Baselines and Groups
Remediation
Module 10: Upgrading vSphere
Lesson 1: Update Requirements
Prerequisites
Licensing
Upgrade Path
System Requirements
Lesson 2: Manual Upgrade Process
ESXi Manual Upgrade
Process
Migration
Maintenance Mode
Media
Installation Options
Completion
Post Upgrade
Datastores
Lesson 3: vCenter Upgrade
General vCenter Upgrade Concerns
vCenter Server
vCenter Server Appliance
Host Client and Web client
Lesson 4: Update Manager Upgrades
Preconfiguration
Remediation
Actions
VM Tools and Hardware
Target Audience
This course is targeted towards systems engineers, system administrators, vSphere operators, ESXi operators and support personnel. The student should ideally be looking into virtualization technologies or have up to one year of experience dealing with a vSphere virtualized environment.