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Welcome to VMware vSphere 7 Boot Camp
Key Topics and Instructor Introduction
vSphere Compute and Workload Management
vSphere Storage Management and VM Backup and Replication
Easy ESXi Server Refreshes, Windows and vSphere Licensing Explained
Low Cost Non-Production License Options. Single Host to On Premise Private Cloud Deployments
Full vSphere On Premise Private Cloud Explained. vSphere Limits Over Time
Introduction to ESXi 7.0 Initial Install Steps
Working through ESXi 7 Install Steps
Configuring ESXi 7 using the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)
Console Command Line Access and Log File Browse / Review
Managing ESXi 7 using Host Client
ESXi 7 Compute, Network and Storage Resource Considerations
How to Connect to and Access ESXLab's Remote Access Lab Servers
Powering on Your ESXi Host and Launching the ESXi 7.0 Installer
Perform an Initial Install of ESXi 7.0
Set ESXi Management Network Properties with the Direct Console User Interface
How to Test Management Network Settings. Command Line Login
Configuring ESXi for Local User and Active Directory User Access and Permissions
How to Restart Management Agents. Review Logs / Configs with the Hosts URL
Introduction to Standard Virtual Switches
Isolated, Uplinked and Teamed vSwitches
Standard vSwitch Port Groups and VMkernel NICs
Creating and Updating vSwitches and vSwitch Settings
ESXi Networking Review. Create vSwitches, Port Groups, VMkernel NICs, pNIC Teams
Introduction to Advanced Virtual Networking
Advanced vSwitch Security Policies - Promiscuous Mode, Forged Transmits, MAC Address Changes
Traffic Bandwitdh Shaping. Introduction to pNIC Teaming
vSwitch pNIC Teams - Route by Originating Port, Route by MAC Address
vSwitch pNIC Teams - Route by IP Hash, Route by pNIC Load, Active / Stand-by Teams
Network Health Checks and vSwitch Best Practices
Advanced vNetworking - vSwitch Security, pNIC Teaming, Jumbo Frames
Introduction to File Shares and NFS
NFS Network Design. Connecting ESXi 7 to NFS Shares
NFS Use Cases, Pros, Cons and Best Practices
Connecting to and Using NAS Shared Storage
Building a New Virtual Machine from the Ground Up
Sizing and Customizing VM Virtual Hardware
Completing VM Virtual Hardware. Installing an Operating System into a VM
Virtual Machine Snapshots and Virtual Machine Files
How to Import and How to Build a Virtual Machine
Customizing the Hardware of Our New Windows 10 Virtual Machine
How to Give Up and Take Back Ownership of a VM. Working with VM Snapshots
Exporting a VM in OVF / OVA Format. Importing an OVF / OVA Format VM into ESXi 7
Introduction to vSphere Management with vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)
vCenter Appliance Stage 1 and Stage 2 Install Steps
Complete Post-Install Tasks with the vCenter Appliance Management Interface
Add ESXi Hosts to vCenter and a Quick Tour of vCenter
vCenter Certificate Authority and vCenter High Availability
vCenter Backup / Restore, Migrating vCenter for Windows to vCSA, vCenter Best Practices
Launch the vCenter Server Appliance Installer and Completing Stage 1
Completing Stage 2 of the vCenter Server Appliance Installer
Use Virtual Appliance Management Interface (VAMI) to Perform Post Install Tasks
Joining vCenter Server Appliance's Base Linux (Photon) OS to Active Directory
Importing an ESXi host into vCenter. A quick tour of vCenter
Virtual Machine Templates - Theory and Practice
Thick and Thin Format Virtual Disks and their Use Cases
How to Deploy New VMs from Clone or Template
Guest OS Customization, Virtual Appliances, Moving VMs to Other Platforms
How to Prepare a VM for Use as a Template
How to Consistently Deploy New VMs using Guest OS Customization Specifications
Working with Guest OS Customization Specifications
How to Clone an Existing Virtual Machine into a Template
How to Make Ad Hoc VM Copies with VM Cloning
Manage, Share VM Templates, ISOs, Scripts, etc. with vCenter Content Libraries
How to Create Content Libraries. How to Upload and Deploy VM Templates from a CL
Upgrade VM vHardware Any Time with Hot Plug Virtual Hardware
Compute Resource Overcommit, Hotplug vDisks, Upgrade vHardware
How to Hot Add vDisks to a Running VMs
How to Hot Grow vDisks including System Disks in a powered on VM
How to Hot Plug New vCPU Sockets and vRAM into a running VM
Why and How to Safely Upgrade Virtual Hardware in a Virtual Machine
ESXi and vCenter Roles, Priviledges and Permissions
Permissions in Action. Reviewing, Updating and Customizing Permissions on ESXi and vCenter
Add vCenter Administrator Permissions to the vCenter root User
Grant Limited vCenter Access to Active Directory Users
Creating and Working with Custom Roles
vSphere Shared Storage Options and Features
Fibre SAN Storage, Zoning and Runtime Hardware Paths
Intro to iSCSI, iSCSI Network Design, iSCSI Qualified Names and iSCSI Hardware Initiators
Connecting ESXi to an iSCSI SAN. iSCSI Pros and Cons
iSCSI Design Tips. NFS v4.1 Migration and Best Practices
Enable and Configure the ESXi 7.0 iSCSI Software Initiator
Assign Custom Names to SAN Volumes
How to Delegate and Use Virtual and Physical Raw Device Maps Including Best Practices and Use Cases
How to Create, Initialize, Partition, Format and Properly Delete a Raw Device
Introduction to VMware File System (VMFS)
Creating VMFS 6 Datastores
Managing VMFS Capacity with LUN Spans and by Growing LUNs
VMFS Native and Third Party Multipath Drivers
VMFS Tips and Best Practices
How to Upgrade a VMFS 5 Filesystem to VMFS 6
How to Create a VMFS 6 Datastore
How to In Place Grow a VMFS 6 File System into a Newly Expanded SAN Volume
How to Grow a VMFS Datastore Using a LUN Span
Change a Datastore's Path Selection Policy to Maximize Storage Network Bandwidth
vCenter Alarms
Working with Default and Custom Alarms. Alarms Best Practices
Install a Simple SNMP Trap Receiver. Configure vCenter to Send Traps
Create and Test a Virtual Machine High Compute Resource Use Alarm
Open Up Windows Firewall to Allow Inbound SNMP Traffic (UDP on Port 162)
Create High VM vCompute Load and View Traps In Our Windows Trap Receiver
Compute Resource Tunes with Reservations, Shares and Limits
Resource Pool Settings Explained
Resource Pool Use Cases, Administration and Best Practices
Create, Configure and Test a New Resource Pool with Artificial Limits
Prioritizing VM Compute Resource Delegations with Shares
Prioritizing Compute Resource Delegations in Bulk with Resource Pools
Introduction to VM Cold, Hot Compute and Hot Storage Migration
vSphere Requirements for VMotion. VMotion Validation and How VMotion Works
Checking pCPU Family VMotion Compatibility, Storage VMotion, Long Distance VMotion
Preparing for VM Migration. Powering on Host esx2 and Adding it to vCenter
Cold Migrate a Powered Off VM to a New Datastore
Hot VMotion Migrate the Running Compute State of a VM to a New ESXi 7 Host
Perform a Combined VM VMotion and Storage VMotion
How To Create and Configure a Distributed Resource Scheduling Load Balanced Cluster
VMotion Across CPU Generations with DRS Enhanced VMotion Compatibility
Per-VM EVC, DRS VM Overrides, VM Affinity and Anti-Affinity Rules
DRS Resource Utilization, Adopting DRS, Network Aware DRS and Predictive DRS
DRS Custom Balancing Policies, Power Management and Best Practices
How To Create, Configure a Distributed Resource Scheduling Load Balanced Cluster
Unbalancing the DRS Cluster and Watching DRS Automatically Rebalance the Cluster
Enable and Configure DRS Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC)
Overview of High Availability Clusters Features and Capabilities
HA Virtual Machine Restart Policy and Settings Explained
HA Policies Explained - Host Isolation, All Paths Down, Permanent Device Loss and VM Monitoring
Reserving Compute Resources with Admission Control. Proactive HA Explained
Per-VM Setting Overrides, HA Summary, HA and DRS, Maintenance Mode and Review
Enable and Configure vSphere High Availability Cluster Host Failures & Responses
Understand and Configure HA Admission Control Settings
Understand and Configure Heartbeat Datastores
How to Set Virtual Machine Custom Restart Priorities and Properties
Simulate an ESXi Host Failure and Watch HA Place and Restart Impacted VMs
Introduction to Continuous VM Availability using vSphere Fault Tolerance
Enabling and Testing Fault Tolerance. FT Operations
How to Create and Configure Our Fault Tolerant Logging Network
Review and Update VM vHardware for Fault Tolerance. Power On FT Protected VM
Review and Test a Fully Fault Tolerance Protected VM
Testing Fault Tolerance Operations - Test Failover, Test Restart Secondary
Patching and Updating ESXi hosts with VMware Lifecycle Manager
Patch Baselines and Baseline Groups
Remediating ESXi Hosts with VLM
Configure and Update VMware Lifecycle Manager
Create a Host Extenstion Patch Baseline and Attach it to an ESXi Host
Use VLM to Remediate the ESXi Host to Install All Selected Patches in a baseline
Introduction to dvSwitches, Features and Capabilities
How to Create a New dvSwitch and How to Add an ESXi 7.0 Host to a dvSwitch
Migrating Standard vSwitch VMkernel NICs and VMs to dvSwitches
Completing Standard vSwtich to dvSwitch Migrations. Private vLANs Explanation and Use Cases
Creating and Configuring a new dvSwitch. Adding an ESXi host to a dvSwitch
Migrating VM vNICs and ESXi host VMkernel NICs to our dvSwitch
Consolidating vNetworking from Standard vSwitches to dvSwitches
Adding a Second ESXi 7 Host to our dvSwitch. dvSwitch Backup and Recovery
Managing ESXi Host and VM CPU Performance
ESXi 7 Memory Management Features
ESXi 7 Memory Compression and Swapping. ESXi 7 and SSDs
Using Performance Charts to Monitor CPU, Memory and Storage. Performance Best Practices
Measuring Virtual Machine Disk I/O Performance Using IOMeter
Measuring Virtual Machine Network I/O Performance Using IOMeter
What to Virtualize, How to Protect VMs, Useful Resources and Class Wind Down
Welcome to VMware vSphere 7.0 Boot Camp
Welcome to VMware vSphere 7 Boot Camp
Preview
Key Topics and Instructor Introduction
Preview
Introduction to VMware vSphere 7.0
vSphere Compute and Workload Management
Preview
vSphere Storage Management and VM Backup and Replication
Preview
Easy ESXi Server Refreshes, Windows and vSphere Licensing Explained
Preview
Low Cost Non-Production License Options. Single Host to On Premise Private Cloud Deployments
Preview
Full vSphere On Premise Private Cloud Explained. vSphere Limits Over Time
Preview
How to Install and Configure ESXi 7.0
Introduction to ESXi 7.0 Initial Install Steps
Preview
Working through ESXi 7 Install Steps
Preview
Configuring ESXi 7 using the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)
Console Command Line Access and Log File Browse / Review
Managing ESXi 7 using Host Client
ESXi 7 Compute, Network and Storage Resource Considerations
Hands-on Lab Demo - How to Conntect to the ESXLab's vSphere 7.0 Remote Lab Environment
How to Connect to and Access ESXLab's Remote Access Lab Servers
Preview
Hands-on Lab Demo - How to Install and Configure ESXi 7.0
Powering on Your ESXi Host and Launching the ESXi 7.0 Installer
Perform an Initial Install of ESXi 7.0
Set ESXi Management Network Properties with the Direct Console User Interface
How to Test Management Network Settings. Command Line Login
Configuring ESXi for Local User and Active Directory User Access and Permissions
How to Restart Management Agents. Review Logs / Configs with the Hosts URL
Introduction to Virtual and Physical Networking
Introduction to Standard Virtual Switches
Preview
Isolated, Uplinked and Teamed vSwitches
Standard vSwitch Port Groups and VMkernel NICs
Creating and Updating vSwitches and vSwitch Settings
Hands-on Lab Demo - Introduction to Virtual and Physical Networking
ESXi Networking Review. Create vSwitches, Port Groups, VMkernel NICs, pNIC Teams
Advanced Virtual Networking
Introduction to Advanced Virtual Networking
Preview
Advanced vSwitch Security Policies - Promiscuous Mode, Forged Transmits, MAC Address Changes
Traffic Bandwitdh Shaping. Introduction to pNIC Teaming
vSwitch pNIC Teams - Route by Originating Port, Route by MAC Address
vSwitch pNIC Teams - Route by IP Hash, Route by pNIC Load, Active / Stand-by Teams
Network Health Checks and vSwitch Best Practices
Hands-on Lab Demo - Advanced Virtual Networking
Advanced vNetworking - vSwitch Security, pNIC Teaming, Jumbo Frames
Connecting to and Using NAS Shared Storage
Introduction to File Shares and NFS
NFS Network Design. Connecting ESXi 7 to NFS Shares
NFS Use Cases, Pros, Cons and Best Practices
Hands-on Lab Demo - Connecting to and Using NAS Shared Storage
Connecting to and Using NAS Shared Storage
Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines
Building a New Virtual Machine from the Ground Up
Preview
Sizing and Customizing VM Virtual Hardware
Completing VM Virtual Hardware. Installing an Operating System into a VM
Virtual Machine Snapshots and Virtual Machine Files
Hands-on Lab Demo - Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines
How to Import and How to Build a Virtual Machine
Preview
Customizing the Hardware of Our New Windows 10 Virtual Machine
How to Give Up and Take Back Ownership of a VM. Working with VM Snapshots
Exporting a VM in OVF / OVA Format. Importing an OVF / OVA Format VM into ESXi 7
How to Install, Configure and Administer vCenter Server Appliance
Introduction to vSphere Management with vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)
Preview
vCenter Appliance Stage 1 and Stage 2 Install Steps
Complete Post-Install Tasks with the vCenter Appliance Management Interface
Add ESXi Hosts to vCenter and a Quick Tour of vCenter
vCenter Certificate Authority and vCenter High Availability
vCenter Backup / Restore, Migrating vCenter for Windows to vCSA, vCenter Best Practices
Hands-on Lab Demo - How to Install, Configure and Administer vCenter Server Appliance
Launch the vCenter Server Appliance Installer and Completing Stage 1
Completing Stage 2 of the vCenter Server Appliance Installer
Use Virtual Appliance Management Interface (VAMI) to Perform Post Install Tasks
Joining vCenter Server Appliance's Base Linux (Photon) OS to Active Directory
Importing an ESXi host into vCenter. A quick tour of vCenter
Rapid Virtual Machine Deployment with VM Templates and Clones
Virtual Machine Templates - Theory and Practice
Preview
Thick and Thin Format Virtual Disks and their Use Cases
How to Deploy New VMs from Clone or Template
Guest OS Customization, Virtual Appliances, Moving VMs to Other Platforms
Hands-on Lab Demo - Rapid Virtual Machine Deployment with VM Templates and Clones
How to Prepare a VM for Use as a Template
How to Consistently Deploy New VMs using Guest OS Customization Specifications
Working with Guest OS Customization Specifications
How to Clone an Existing Virtual Machine into a Template
How to Make Ad Hoc VM Copies with VM Cloning
Template, Media and File Management with Content Libraries
Manage, Share VM Templates, ISOs, Scripts, etc. with vCenter Content Libraries
Hands-on Lab Demo - Template, Media and File Management with Content Libraries
How to Create Content Libraries. How to Upload and Deploy VM Templates from a CL
Configuring and Using VM Hotplug Hardware
Upgrade VM vHardware Any Time with Hot Plug Virtual Hardware
Compute Resource Overcommit, Hotplug vDisks, Upgrade vHardware
Hands-on Lab Demo - Working with Virtual Machine Hot Plug vHardware
How to Hot Add vDisks to a Running VMs
How to Hot Grow vDisks including System Disks in a powered on VM
How to Hot Plug New vCPU Sockets and vRAM into a running VM
Why and How to Safely Upgrade Virtual Hardware in a Virtual Machine
Working With ESXi and vCenter Permissions
ESXi and vCenter Roles, Priviledges and Permissions
Permissions in Action. Reviewing, Updating and Customizing Permissions on ESXi and vCenter
Hands-on Lab Demo - Working With ESXi and vCenter Permissions
Add vCenter Administrator Permissions to the vCenter root User
Grant Limited vCenter Access to Active Directory Users
Creating and Working with Custom Roles
Connecting ESXi to Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage
vSphere Shared Storage Options and Features
Preview
Fibre SAN Storage, Zoning and Runtime Hardware Paths
Intro to iSCSI, iSCSI Network Design, iSCSI Qualified Names and iSCSI Hardware Initiators
Connecting ESXi to an iSCSI SAN. iSCSI Pros and Cons
iSCSI Design Tips. NFS v4.1 Migration and Best Practices
Hands-on Lab Demo - Connecting ESXi to Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage
Enable and Configure the ESXi 7.0 iSCSI Software Initiator
Assign Custom Names to SAN Volumes
Direct VM to SAN LUN Access with Raw Device Maps
How to Delegate and Use Virtual and Physical Raw Device Maps Including Best Practices and Use Cases
Hands-on Lab Demo - Direct VM to SAN LUN Access with Raw Device Maps
How to Create, Initialize, Partition, Format and Properly Delete a Raw Device
VMFS - VMware's Cluster File System
Introduction to VMware File System (VMFS)
Creating VMFS 6 Datastores
Managing VMFS Capacity with LUN Spans and by Growing LUNs
VMFS Native and Third Party Multipath Drivers
VMFS Tips and Best Practices
Hands-on Lab Demo - VMFS - VMware's Cluster File System
How to Upgrade a VMFS 5 Filesystem to VMFS 6
Preview
How to Create a VMFS 6 Datastore
How to In Place Grow a VMFS 6 File System into a Newly Expanded SAN Volume
How to Grow a VMFS Datastore Using a LUN Span
Change a Datastore's Path Selection Policy to Maximize Storage Network Bandwidth
Infrastructure Monitoring with vCenter Alarms
vCenter Alarms
Working with Default and Custom Alarms. Alarms Best Practices
Hands-on Lab Demo - Infrastructure Monitoring with vCenter Alarms
Install a Simple SNMP Trap Receiver. Configure vCenter to Send Traps
Create and Test a Virtual Machine High Compute Resource Use Alarm
Open Up Windows Firewall to Allow Inbound SNMP Traffic (UDP on Port 162)
Create High VM vCompute Load and View Traps In Our Windows Trap Receiver
Compute Resource Management with Resource Pools
Compute Resource Tunes with Reservations, Shares and Limits
Resource Pool Settings Explained
Resource Pool Use Cases, Administration and Best Practices
Hands-on Lab Demo - Compute Resource Management with Resource Pools
Create, Configure and Test a New Resource Pool with Artificial Limits
Prioritizing VM Compute Resource Delegations with Shares
Prioritizing Compute Resource Delegations in Bulk with Resource Pools
VM Cold Migration, VMotion Migration and Storage Migration
Introduction to VM Cold, Hot Compute and Hot Storage Migration
vSphere Requirements for VMotion. VMotion Validation and How VMotion Works
Checking pCPU Family VMotion Compatibility, Storage VMotion, Long Distance VMotion
Hands-on Lab Demo - VM Cold Migration, VMotion Migration and Storage Migration
Preparing for VM Migration. Powering on Host esx2 and Adding it to vCenter
Cold Migrate a Powered Off VM to a New Datastore
Hot VMotion Migrate the Running Compute State of a VM to a New ESXi 7 Host
Perform a Combined VM VMotion and Storage VMotion
Distributed Resource Scheduling Compute Load Balanced Clusters
How To Create and Configure a Distributed Resource Scheduling Load Balanced Cluster
VMotion Across CPU Generations with DRS Enhanced VMotion Compatibility
Per-VM EVC, DRS VM Overrides, VM Affinity and Anti-Affinity Rules
DRS Resource Utilization, Adopting DRS, Network Aware DRS and Predictive DRS
DRS Custom Balancing Policies, Power Management and Best Practices
Hands-on Lab Demo - Distributed Resource Scheduling Compute Load Balanced Clusters
How To Create, Configure a Distributed Resource Scheduling Load Balanced Cluster
Unbalancing the DRS Cluster and Watching DRS Automatically Rebalance the Cluster
Enable and Configure DRS Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC)
Rapid VM Failure Recovery with High Availability Clusters
Overview of High Availability Clusters Features and Capabilities
HA Virtual Machine Restart Policy and Settings Explained
HA Policies Explained - Host Isolation, All Paths Down, Permanent Device Loss and VM Monitoring
Reserving Compute Resources with Admission Control. Proactive HA Explained
Per-VM Setting Overrides, HA Summary, HA and DRS, Maintenance Mode and Review
Hands-on Lab Demo - Rapid VM Failure Recovery with High Availability Clusters
Enable and Configure vSphere High Availability Cluster Host Failures & Responses
Understand and Configure HA Admission Control Settings
Understand and Configure Heartbeat Datastores
How to Set Virtual Machine Custom Restart Priorities and Properties
Simulate an ESXi Host Failure and Watch HA Place and Restart Impacted VMs
Continuous VM Availability with Fault Tolerance
Introduction to Continuous VM Availability using vSphere Fault Tolerance
Enabling and Testing Fault Tolerance. FT Operations
Hands-on Lab Demo - Continuous VM Availability with Fault Tolerance
How to Create and Configure Our Fault Tolerant Logging Network
Review and Update VM vHardware for Fault Tolerance. Power On FT Protected VM
Review and Test a Fully Fault Tolerance Protected VM
Testing Fault Tolerance Operations - Test Failover, Test Restart Secondary
Patch Management with VMware Lifecycle Manager
Patching and Updating ESXi hosts with VMware Lifecycle Manager
Patch Baselines and Baseline Groups
Remediating ESXi Hosts with VLM
Hands-on Lab Demo - Patch Management with VMware Lifecycle Manager
Configure and Update VMware Lifecycle Manager
Create a Host Extenstion Patch Baseline and Attach it to an ESXi Host
Use VLM to Remediate the ESXi Host to Install All Selected Patches in a baseline
Introduction to vNetwork Distributed Virtual Switches
Introduction to dvSwitches, Features and Capabilities
How to Create a New dvSwitch and How to Add an ESXi 7.0 Host to a dvSwitch
Migrating Standard vSwitch VMkernel NICs and VMs to dvSwitches
Completing Standard vSwtich to dvSwitch Migrations. Private vLANs Explanation and Use Cases
Hands-on Lab Demo - Introduction to vNetwork Distributed Virtual Switches
Creating and Configuring a new dvSwitch. Adding an ESXi host to a dvSwitch
Migrating VM vNICs and ESXi host VMkernel NICs to our dvSwitch
Consolidating vNetworking from Standard vSwitches to dvSwitches
Adding a Second ESXi 7 Host to our dvSwitch. dvSwitch Backup and Recovery
Managing vSphere Scalability and Performance
Managing ESXi Host and VM CPU Performance
ESXi 7 Memory Management Features
ESXi 7 Memory Compression and Swapping. ESXi 7 and SSDs
Using Performance Charts to Monitor CPU, Memory and Storage. Performance Best Practices
Hands-on Lab Demo - Managing vSphere Scalability and Performance
Measuring Virtual Machine Disk I/O Performance Using IOMeter
Measuring Virtual Machine Network I/O Performance Using IOMeter
Final Thoughts
What to Virtualize, How to Protect VMs, Useful Resources and Class Wind Down
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