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Course Objectives
Instructor Introduction
Virtualization Overview and Resource Overcommit Benefits
VM Availability, Backup and Distaster Preparedness
Safe VM Testing / Upgrades and Safe Physical Server Refresh
Licensing Options for Windows VMs, vSphere and Home Labs
vSphere 6.7 - From Standalone Host to Full On Premises Private Cloud
vSphere On Premises Private Cloud Explained
VMware vSphere 6.7 Overview - End of Chapter Quiz
Introduction to ESXi 6.7 Hardware Requirements
Installing ESXi 6.7 - Part 1
Installing ESXi 6.7 - Part 2
Post Install Configuration Tasks - Set ESXi's Management Networking Properties
Troubleshooting Options - ESXi Console Shell, SSH and Restart Management Agents
Using ESXi Virtual Consoles - Command Line Log In and VMkernel Logs. Browsing Key ESXi Files
Introduction to Stand Alone ESXi 6.7 Host Management with Host Client
ESXi NICs, Service Management and Firewall Management
ESXi 6.7 Hardware Considerations
How to Install and Conofigure the VMware ESXi 6.7 Hypervisor - End of Chapter Quiz
Connecting to Our Lab Environment. Powering on and Installing ESXi 6.7
Powering On our ESXi host. Configure ESXi Host Management Networking using DCUI
Using the ESXi Shell Console. How to Browse ESXi Host Log, Configuration Files
How to Update ESXi Host Client Package Using FileZilla
How to Join ESXi to Active Directory. Working with Local and AD Users
Updating ESXi Settings. Network Time Protocol, Shell Warnings, Management Agents
Introduction to Virtual Networking with vSwitches and vNICs
vSwitch Local and Physical Packet Delivery
vSwitch Local and Physical Packet Delivery
How to Create a new vSwitch
VMkernel NICs and TCP/IP Stacks
Configuring Your vSwitch - Port Groups, pNIC Teams, CDP and pNICs
vSwitch Guidelines and vNIC Performance Tips
Untitled lesson
Standard vSwitches, VMkernel NICs, Port Groups and their Properties / Settings
Configuring vSwitch Security, Stand-by pNICs, Beacon Probing and Jumbo Frames
Introduction to NFS File Shares for ESXi
NFS Network Design, Defining NFS Shares, VMkernel NICs for NFS
Mounting NFS Shares from ESXi
Using NFS for ESXi - Pros and Cons
NFS Multipathing, Network Design and Best Practices
Configure ESXi Networking for NFS. Mounting and Using NFS Shares
Introduction to Virtual Machines and Virtual Hardware
Virtual Storage Controllers and Devices. Removable Media Devices
Installing Windows. Installing VMware Tools. Configuring Windows for Best Performance
Working with Virtual Machine Snapshots
Supported Operating Systems, vHardware Versions, vHardware Upgrade Procedures
Creating the Virtual Hardware Layer of a New Virtual Machine
Installing Windows Server Into Our New VM
Installing and Verifying VMware Tools, 3rd Party Software Into our New VM
More Guest OS Updates. Modifying IE So We Can Download a Modern Browser
Install Firefox, Adjust VM for Performance, Give Up / Take Ownership of a VM
Taking and Working with Virtual Machine Snapshots
Exporting and Importing VMs in Open Virtual Machine (OVF) / Archive (OVA) Format
Introduction to vCenter Services and vCenter Server Appliance
vCenter Server Appliance - Stage 1 Installer
vCenter Server Appliance - Stage 2 Installer
vCenter Clients - HTML 5 Client and Web Client
Configuring vCSA's Virtual Appliance Management Interface (VAMI)
vCenter Server Appliance Post Install Configuration Tasks. Adding an ESXi Host to vCenter
Certificate Management with VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA)
vCSA High Availability, Backing Up vCenter, Migrating from Windows to vCSA
Intro to vCenter Server Appliance. Launching The Installer, Completing Stage 1
Completing Stage 2 of the vCenter Server Appliance Installer
Guided Tour Through the vCenter Appliance Management Portal
How to Patch and Update vCenter Server Appliance
How to Join the Base vCenter Photon OS to Active Directory
Setting Up vCenter's Inventory. Grant AD User Permissions, Import an ESXi Host
Introduction to Virtual Machine Templates and Clones
Virtual Disk Formats - Thick Disk and Thin Disk
Converting vDisks Between Thin and Thick Disk
Creating New VMs from Templates and Clones and Customizing Guest OS Properties
Virtual Appliances - Pre-built Virtual Machines That You Can Download and Use
Introduction to Hotplug Virtual Hardware Including Hotplug CPUs and Hotplug RAM
Working with Hotplug RAM. VM Video Cards and Hotplugging Other Devices
Hot Adding and Hot Growing Virtual Disks
Creating a VM Template. Deploying a New VM from Template and Customizing It.
Clone a VM to a Template. Deploying a VM using a Save Guest Customization Spec.
Hot Adding and Hot Growing Secondary Virtual Disks (vDisks)
How to Hot Grow a System Volume (C Drive) on a Windows Server VM
Explore pCPU and vCPU Properties using the Free CPU-Z Tool
How to Hot-Add Additional vCPU Sockets and More vMemory to a Running VM
An Introduction to ESXi and vCenter Permission Model and Roles
Working With Roles and Permissions
How Permissions are Handled When Multiple Permission Assignments Are Present
vCenter Users and Groups
Working with ESXi Permissions. Permission Best Practices
Reviewing, Updating and Creating LocalOS and Domain Based Permission Assignments
Creating, Working With and Testing Custom Roles
Introduction to Shared Storage Features and Capabilities
Fibre Storage Area Network Overview
Hardware Runtime Paths Explained
Introduction to iSCSI Storage Area Networks
Scanning an iSCSI SAN for Volumes and Reviewing Volume Properties and Paths
iSCSI Pros and Cons. Storage Network Design Best Practices
NFS v4.1 Shared Storage Features and Limitations
Connecting ESXi to iSCSI Shared Storage. Configure iSCSI Software Initiator. Scan for SAN Volumes
Introduction to the VMware VMFS 6 Cluster File System
How to Create New VMFS 6 File Systems
VMFS 6 Properties Including Space Reclaim
Managing VMFS Capacity - LUN Spans and Growing VMFS Voluimes, Partitions, File Systems
VMware Active / Stand-by, Active / Active Multipath Policies
Shared Storage Tips, VAAI Explained, Storage Best Practices
How to Grow a VMFS Partition and Filesystem Into a Newly Expanded Storage Volume
How to Grow a VMFS by Adding Additional Storage Volumes - Creating a LUN Span
Upgrading a VMFS Path Selection Policy to Round Robin Active/Active Multipathing
Introduction to vSphere Infrastructure Monitoring with Stock and Custom Alarms
Configuring Alarms to Send E-mails, SNMP Traps. Alarm Tips and Best Practices
Installing an SNMP Receiver, Configuring vCenter, Creating a Custom vCPU Alarm
Update Local Windows Firewall to Allow Inbound SNMP Using UDP on Port 162
Launch a vCPU Intensive Application, Monitor VM Performance and Look for Traps
Virtual CPU Core Reservations, Shares and Limits
VM vMemory Resource Tunes Explained
How Shares Determine VM Resource Access Priority
Delegating vCPU, vRAM in Bulk with Resource Pools
Resource Pools Explored Including Tips and Best Practices
Using Custom Limits to Reduce vCPU Performance Inside a Virtual Machine
Testing VM Resource Settings and Performance Within a Resource Pool
Testing VM Resource Settings and Performance Across Resource Pools
Introduction to Virtual Machine Cold, Hot and Storage Migration
Live VM Compute State Migration with VMotion
VMotion ESXi Host and VM Requirements Explained
Storage VMotion and Long Distance VMotion
Virtual Cold Migration. Preparing for and Troubleshooting VMotion Migration
VMotion, Stress Test VMotion, Combined Computer+vDisk Storage VMotion Migration
Introduction to Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) Compute Load Balancing Clusters
Mixing Processor Families Using Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC)
Affinity and Anti-affinity Rules and Per-VM Overrides
Reviewing DRS Balancing, Adopting DRS, DRS Best Practices
Predictive DRS. Three New Load Balancing Algorithms. DRS Best Practices
Create a New Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) Cluster, add ESXi Hosts
Manually Unbalance the Cluster, Check for Recommendations, Rebalance the Cluster
Introduction to VMware High Availability Clusters
An Overview of Failures and HA Responses
VM Rapid Recovery After ESXi Host Failures
ESXi Host Isolation, Permanent Device Loss and All Paths Down Failures and Responses
Virtual Machine Failure Monitoring and Recovery
Responding to Correctable Host Hardware Issues With Proactive HA
Guaranteeing VM Compute Resource Availability with HA Admission Control
Configuring Heartbeat Datastores. Per-VM HA Overrides
Review Our HA Cluster. Maintenance Mode. HA With and Without DRS. HA Best Practices
Enable vSphere High Availability, Configure Failures and Responses Policies
vSphere HA: Update Proactive HA, Admission Control, Heartbeat Datastore Policies
Customize VM Restart Priority, Simulate a Host Failure and Monitor VM Recovery
Introduction to VMware Update Manager Features and Configuration
Creating Fixed or Dynamic Host Patch Baselines and Scanning ESXi for Patch Compliance
Applying Host Patches to Remediate Non-Compliant ESXi Hosts
Create a New ESXi 6.0 Host (to later upgrade with VMware Update Manager)
Configure VMware Update Manager, Import Host Upgrade Image, Upgrade Host to 6.7
Create and ESXi Host Update Patch Baseline, Test Host Compliance and Update ESXi
Create a VM Upgrade Patch Baseline. Use it to Upgrade VM vHardware, VMware Tools
ESXi 6.7 pCPU and vCPU Considerations
ESXi 6.7 pRAM and vRAM Considerations
Storage Considerations and Storage I/O Control (SIOCtl)
Using Performance Graphs to Investigate Performance Issues
CPU, RAM, Storage and Network Performance Considerations
Chaper Objectives. Place VMs on 2 ESXi Hosts. Install IOMeter on Both VMs
Create and Review a VM Based Disk I/O Workload Using IOMeter
Final Thoughts on Virtualization and Course Wrap Up
Course Introduction
Course Objectives
Preview
Instructor Introduction
Preview
VMware vSphere 6.7 Overview
Virtualization Overview and Resource Overcommit Benefits
Preview
VM Availability, Backup and Distaster Preparedness
Preview
Safe VM Testing / Upgrades and Safe Physical Server Refresh
Preview
Licensing Options for Windows VMs, vSphere and Home Labs
Preview
vSphere 6.7 - From Standalone Host to Full On Premises Private Cloud
Preview
vSphere On Premises Private Cloud Explained
Preview
VMware vSphere 6.7 Overview - End of Chapter Quiz
How to Install and Configure the VMware ESXi 6.7 Hypervisor
Introduction to ESXi 6.7 Hardware Requirements
Preview
Installing ESXi 6.7 - Part 1
Installing ESXi 6.7 - Part 2
Post Install Configuration Tasks - Set ESXi's Management Networking Properties
Troubleshooting Options - ESXi Console Shell, SSH and Restart Management Agents
Using ESXi Virtual Consoles - Command Line Log In and VMkernel Logs. Browsing Key ESXi Files
Introduction to Stand Alone ESXi 6.7 Host Management with Host Client
ESXi NICs, Service Management and Firewall Management
ESXi 6.7 Hardware Considerations
How to Install and Conofigure the VMware ESXi 6.7 Hypervisor - End of Chapter Quiz
Preview
How to Install and Configure ESXi 6.7 - Hands on Lab Demo
Connecting to Our Lab Environment. Powering on and Installing ESXi 6.7
Preview
Powering On our ESXi host. Configure ESXi Host Management Networking using DCUI
Preview
Using the ESXi Shell Console. How to Browse ESXi Host Log, Configuration Files
How to Update ESXi Host Client Package Using FileZilla
How to Join ESXi to Active Directory. Working with Local and AD Users
Updating ESXi Settings. Network Time Protocol, Shell Warnings, Management Agents
Introduction to Standard Virtual Switches
Introduction to Virtual Networking with vSwitches and vNICs
Preview
vSwitch Local and Physical Packet Delivery
vSwitch Local and Physical Packet Delivery
How to Create a new vSwitch
VMkernel NICs and TCP/IP Stacks
Configuring Your vSwitch - Port Groups, pNIC Teams, CDP and pNICs
vSwitch Guidelines and vNIC Performance Tips
Untitled lesson
Introduction to Standard Virtual Switches - Hands on Lab Demo
Standard vSwitches, VMkernel NICs, Port Groups and their Properties / Settings
Preview
Configuring vSwitch Security, Stand-by pNICs, Beacon Probing and Jumbo Frames
Connecting ESXi 6.7 to NFS Shares
Introduction to NFS File Shares for ESXi
Preview
NFS Network Design, Defining NFS Shares, VMkernel NICs for NFS
Mounting NFS Shares from ESXi
Using NFS for ESXi - Pros and Cons
NFS Multipathing, Network Design and Best Practices
Connecting ESXi 6.7 to NFS Shares - Hands on Lab Demo
Configure ESXi Networking for NFS. Mounting and Using NFS Shares
Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines. How to Create, Configure and Customize VMs
Introduction to Virtual Machines and Virtual Hardware
Preview
Virtual Storage Controllers and Devices. Removable Media Devices
Installing Windows. Installing VMware Tools. Configuring Windows for Best Performance
Working with Virtual Machine Snapshots
Supported Operating Systems, vHardware Versions, vHardware Upgrade Procedures
Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines - Hands on Lab Demo
Creating the Virtual Hardware Layer of a New Virtual Machine
Preview
Installing Windows Server Into Our New VM
Installing and Verifying VMware Tools, 3rd Party Software Into our New VM
More Guest OS Updates. Modifying IE So We Can Download a Modern Browser
Install Firefox, Adjust VM for Performance, Give Up / Take Ownership of a VM
Taking and Working with Virtual Machine Snapshots
Exporting and Importing VMs in Open Virtual Machine (OVF) / Archive (OVA) Format
Installing and Configuring vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)
Introduction to vCenter Services and vCenter Server Appliance
Preview
vCenter Server Appliance - Stage 1 Installer
vCenter Server Appliance - Stage 2 Installer
vCenter Clients - HTML 5 Client and Web Client
Configuring vCSA's Virtual Appliance Management Interface (VAMI)
vCenter Server Appliance Post Install Configuration Tasks. Adding an ESXi Host to vCenter
Certificate Management with VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA)
vCSA High Availability, Backing Up vCenter, Migrating from Windows to vCSA
Installing and Configuring vCSA - Hands on Lab Demo
Intro to vCenter Server Appliance. Launching The Installer, Completing Stage 1
Preview
Completing Stage 2 of the vCenter Server Appliance Installer
Guided Tour Through the vCenter Appliance Management Portal
How to Patch and Update vCenter Server Appliance
How to Join the Base vCenter Photon OS to Active Directory
Setting Up vCenter's Inventory. Grant AD User Permissions, Import an ESXi Host
Rapid VM Deployments with Clones and Templates. Hotplug Virtual hardware
Introduction to Virtual Machine Templates and Clones
Preview
Virtual Disk Formats - Thick Disk and Thin Disk
Converting vDisks Between Thin and Thick Disk
Creating New VMs from Templates and Clones and Customizing Guest OS Properties
Virtual Appliances - Pre-built Virtual Machines That You Can Download and Use
Introduction to Hotplug Virtual Hardware Including Hotplug CPUs and Hotplug RAM
Working with Hotplug RAM. VM Video Cards and Hotplugging Other Devices
Hot Adding and Hot Growing Virtual Disks
Rapid VM Deployment with Templates and Clones - Hands on Lab Demos
Creating a VM Template. Deploying a New VM from Template and Customizing It.
Preview
Clone a VM to a Template. Deploying a VM using a Save Guest Customization Spec.
Hot Adding and Hot Growing Virtual Disks - Hands on Lab Demos
Hot Adding and Hot Growing Secondary Virtual Disks (vDisks)
How to Hot Grow a System Volume (C Drive) on a Windows Server VM
Hot-Adding vCPU Sockets, vMemory - Hands on Lab Demos
Explore pCPU and vCPU Properties using the Free CPU-Z Tool
How to Hot-Add Additional vCPU Sockets and More vMemory to a Running VM
Working with vCenter Permissions
An Introduction to ESXi and vCenter Permission Model and Roles
Preview
Working With Roles and Permissions
How Permissions are Handled When Multiple Permission Assignments Are Present
vCenter Users and Groups
Working with ESXi Permissions. Permission Best Practices
Working with vCenter Permissions - Hands on Lab Demo
Reviewing, Updating and Creating LocalOS and Domain Based Permission Assignments
Creating, Working With and Testing Custom Roles
Connecting ESXi to iSCSI Shared Storage
Introduction to Shared Storage Features and Capabilities
Preview
Fibre Storage Area Network Overview
Hardware Runtime Paths Explained
Introduction to iSCSI Storage Area Networks
Scanning an iSCSI SAN for Volumes and Reviewing Volume Properties and Paths
iSCSI Pros and Cons. Storage Network Design Best Practices
NFS v4.1 Shared Storage Features and Limitations
Connecting ESXi to iSCSI Shared Storage - Hands on Lab Demo
Connecting ESXi to iSCSI Shared Storage. Configure iSCSI Software Initiator. Scan for SAN Volumes
VMware VMFS 6 Cluster File System
Introduction to the VMware VMFS 6 Cluster File System
Preview
How to Create New VMFS 6 File Systems
VMFS 6 Properties Including Space Reclaim
Managing VMFS Capacity - LUN Spans and Growing VMFS Voluimes, Partitions, File Systems
VMware Active / Stand-by, Active / Active Multipath Policies
Shared Storage Tips, VAAI Explained, Storage Best Practices
VMware VMFS 6 Cluster File System - Hands on Lab Demo
How to Grow a VMFS Partition and Filesystem Into a Newly Expanded Storage Volume
How to Grow a VMFS by Adding Additional Storage Volumes - Creating a LUN Span
Upgrading a VMFS Path Selection Policy to Round Robin Active/Active Multipathing
Monitoring vCenter Infrastructure with vCenter Alarms
Introduction to vSphere Infrastructure Monitoring with Stock and Custom Alarms
Preview
Configuring Alarms to Send E-mails, SNMP Traps. Alarm Tips and Best Practices
Monitoring vCenter Infrastructure with vCenter Alarms - Hands on Lab Demo
Installing an SNMP Receiver, Configuring vCenter, Creating a Custom vCPU Alarm
Update Local Windows Firewall to Allow Inbound SNMP Using UDP on Port 162
Launch a vCPU Intensive Application, Monitor VM Performance and Look for Traps
Compute Resouce Management with Resource Pools
Virtual CPU Core Reservations, Shares and Limits
VM vMemory Resource Tunes Explained
How Shares Determine VM Resource Access Priority
Delegating vCPU, vRAM in Bulk with Resource Pools
Resource Pools Explored Including Tips and Best Practices
Compute Resouce Management with Resource Pools - Hands on Lab Demo
Using Custom Limits to Reduce vCPU Performance Inside a Virtual Machine
Testing VM Resource Settings and Performance Within a Resource Pool
Testing VM Resource Settings and Performance Across Resource Pools
VM Cold Migration, Hot Migration and Storage Migration
Introduction to Virtual Machine Cold, Hot and Storage Migration
Preview
Live VM Compute State Migration with VMotion
VMotion ESXi Host and VM Requirements Explained
Storage VMotion and Long Distance VMotion
VM Cold Migration, Hot Migration and Storage Migration - Hands on Lab Demo
Virtual Cold Migration. Preparing for and Troubleshooting VMotion Migration
VMotion, Stress Test VMotion, Combined Computer+vDisk Storage VMotion Migration
Distributed Rescource Scheduling Clusters
Introduction to Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) Compute Load Balancing Clusters
Preview
Mixing Processor Families Using Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC)
Affinity and Anti-affinity Rules and Per-VM Overrides
Reviewing DRS Balancing, Adopting DRS, DRS Best Practices
Predictive DRS. Three New Load Balancing Algorithms. DRS Best Practices
Distributed Rescource Scheduling Clusters - Hands on Lab Demo
Create a New Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) Cluster, add ESXi Hosts
Manually Unbalance the Cluster, Check for Recommendations, Rebalance the Cluster
VMware High Availability Failure Recovery Clusters
Introduction to VMware High Availability Clusters
Preview
An Overview of Failures and HA Responses
VM Rapid Recovery After ESXi Host Failures
ESXi Host Isolation, Permanent Device Loss and All Paths Down Failures and Responses
Virtual Machine Failure Monitoring and Recovery
Responding to Correctable Host Hardware Issues With Proactive HA
Guaranteeing VM Compute Resource Availability with HA Admission Control
Configuring Heartbeat Datastores. Per-VM HA Overrides
Review Our HA Cluster. Maintenance Mode. HA With and Without DRS. HA Best Practices
VMware High Availability Failure Recovery Clusters - Hands on Lab Demo
Enable vSphere High Availability, Configure Failures and Responses Policies
vSphere HA: Update Proactive HA, Admission Control, Heartbeat Datastore Policies
Customize VM Restart Priority, Simulate a Host Failure and Monitor VM Recovery
Upgrading and Updating ESXi Hosts with VMware Update Manager
Introduction to VMware Update Manager Features and Configuration
Preview
Creating Fixed or Dynamic Host Patch Baselines and Scanning ESXi for Patch Compliance
Applying Host Patches to Remediate Non-Compliant ESXi Hosts
Upgrading and Updating ESXi Hosts with VMware Update Manager - Hands on Lab Demo
Create a New ESXi 6.0 Host (to later upgrade with VMware Update Manager)
Configure VMware Update Manager, Import Host Upgrade Image, Upgrade Host to 6.7
Create and ESXi Host Update Patch Baseline, Test Host Compliance and Update ESXi
Create a VM Upgrade Patch Baseline. Use it to Upgrade VM vHardware, VMware Tools
ESXi CPU, Memory and Storage Performance
ESXi 6.7 pCPU and vCPU Considerations
Preview
ESXi 6.7 pRAM and vRAM Considerations
Storage Considerations and Storage I/O Control (SIOCtl)
Using Performance Graphs to Investigate Performance Issues
CPU, RAM, Storage and Network Performance Considerations
ESXi CPU, Memory and Storage Performance - Hands on Lab Demo
Chaper Objectives. Place VMs on 2 ESXi Hosts. Install IOMeter on Both VMs
Create and Review a VM Based Disk I/O Workload Using IOMeter
Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts on Virtualization and Course Wrap Up
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