18-19 Jul 2022

14-15 Nov 2022

vSphere administrators, architects, system engineers, and systems integrators who are responsible for the deployment or management of Site Recovery Manager

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Summarize the components of Site Recovery Manager architecture
• Deploy and configure the Site Recovery Manager appliance
• Describe the principal disaster recovery topologies that are used with Site Recovery Manager
• Configure inventory and resource mappings
• Describe the storage replication options that are used with Site Recovery Manager
• Configure Site Recovery Manager to leverage array-based replication
• Describe VMware vSphere® Replication™ functionality
• Describe the vSphere Replication architecture
• Deploy and configure vSphere Replication for use with Site Recovery Manager
• Build Site Recovery Manager protection groups based on vSphere Replication
• Build, edit, execute, test, and remove a recovery plan
• Perform a planned migration
• Perform reprotect and failback using Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication

• Outline the necessary information to effectively undertake this course
• Identify resources for additional information

• Discuss Site Recovery Manager architecture
• Examine disaster recovery options with Site Recovery Manager
• Describe Site Recovery Manager integration with VMware vSphere® ClientTM
• Discuss Site Recovery Manager features
• Analyze Site Recovery Manager storage policies and integration options
• Discuss how Site Recovery Manager supports several disaster recovery topologies
• Identify use cases for Site Recovery Manager across various scenarios
• Describe how VMware Site Recovery™ for VMware Cloud™ on AWS integrates with Site Recovery Manager.

• Identify the requirements to deploy Site Recovery Manager
• Discuss the benefits of the Site Recovery Manager appliance
• Explore vSphere deployment models
• Deploy the Site Recovery Manager appliance
• Navigate the Site Recovery Manager configuration user interface
• Describe the process to register Site Recovery Manager with VMware vCenter Server®
• Configure site pairing
• Identify how to perform updates to the Site Recovery Manager appliance

• Outline the importance of inventory mappings
• Examine configuration options for inventory mappings
• Outline the importance of placeholders

• Describe array-based replication
• Discuss the role of the Storage Replication Adapter (SRA)
• Explore the relationship between devices, consistency groups and datastore groups
• Configure array pairs

• Explore vSphere Replication architecture
• Examine vSphere Replication functionality
• Formulate use cases for vSphere Replication
• Deploy a vSphere Replication appliance
• Configure vSphere Replication appliance settings
• Configure a vSphere Replication appliance connection
• Deploy a vSphere Replication server
• Register a vSphere Replication server

• Configure vSphere Replication for virtual machines
• Explain the importance of datastore mappings
• Describe vSphere Replication recovery point objective scheduling
• Describe the vSphere Replication disk transfer protocol

• Define protection group functionality
• Examine the differences between array-based protection groups, protection groups based on vSphere Replication, and storage profile protection groups
• Create a protection group
• Discuss protection group settings
• Remove protection from a virtual machine
• Create a storage profile protection group

• Discuss recovery plan concepts
• List recovery plan steps
• Discuss network planning
• Discuss customization options in recovery planning
• Outline how to implement a recovery plan
• Investigate recovery plan options

• Discuss use cases for Site Recovery Manager
• Describe planned migration
• Identify Site Recovery Manager workflows
• Discuss the importance of VMware vSphere® VMFS resignaturing
• Examine Site Recovery Manager integration with various vSphere technologies
• Outline how to conduct a recovery plan test
• Perform recovery plan test execution
• Identify the effects on the storage layer during recovery steps
• Explain a recovery plan execution in planned migration or disaster recovery mode
• Understand storage layer changes for plan execution types
• Identify the recovery steps for each execution type
• Describe how to reprotect a data center
• Examine failback steps

• Discuss Site Recovery Manager alarms
• Explore Site Recovery Manager history reports
• Configuring advanced Site Recovery Manager settings
• Describe how to modify logging levels
• Explain how to collect log bundles
• Identify key log locations

23-27 Aug 2021

• System administrators
• System integrators

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
•  Introduce troubleshooting principles and procedures
•  Use command-line interfaces, log files, and the vSphere Client to diagnose and resolve problems in the vSphere environment
•  Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
•  Explain the purpose of key vSphere log files
•  Identify networking problems based on reported symptoms, validate, and troubleshoot the reported problem, identify the root cause, and implement the appropriate resolution
•  Analyze storage failure scenarios using a logical troubleshooting methodology, identify the root cause, and apply the appropriate resolution to resolve the problem
•  Troubleshoot vSphere cluster failure scenarios and analyze possible causes
•  Diagnose common VMware vSphere® High Availability problems and provide solutions
•  Identify and validate VMware ESXi™ host and VMware vCenter Server® problems, analyze failure scenarios, and select the correct resolution
•  Troubleshoot virtual machine problems, including migration problems, snapshot problems, and connection problems
•  Troubleshoot performance problems with vSphere components

•  Introductions and course logistics
•  Course objectives

•  Define the scope of troubleshooting
•  Use a structured approach to solve configuration and operational problems
•  Apply a troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency

•  Use command-line tools (such as ESXCLI) to identify and troubleshoot vSphere problems
•  Identify important vSphere log files and interpret the log file contents
•  Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
•  Explain how VMware Skyline works
•  Identify uses for Skyline Advisor

•  Analyze and resolve standard switch and distributed switch problems
•  Analyze virtual machine connectivity problems and fix them
•  Examine common management network connectivity problems and restore configurations

•  Troubleshoot and resolve storage (iSCSI, NFS, and VMware vSphere® VMFS) connectivity and
   configuration problems
•  Analyze and resolve common VM snapshot problems
•  Identify and resolve multipathing-related problems, including common causes of permanent device loss
   (PDL) and all paths down (APD) event problems

•  Identify and recover from problems related to vSphere HA
•  Analyze and resolve VMware vSphere® vMotion® configuration and operational problems
•  Analyze and resolve common VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ problems

•  Identify, analyze, and solve virtual machine snapshot problems
•  Troubleshoot virtual machine power-on problems
•  Identify possible causes and troubleshoot virtual machine connection state problems
•  Diagnose and recover from VMware Tools™ installation failures

•  Analyze and fix problems with vCenter Server services
•  Diagnose and troubleshoot vCenter Server database problems
•  Examine ESXi host and vCenter Server failure scenarios and resolve the problems

29 Jan 2024 - 2 Feb 2024

15-19 Apr 2024

1-5 Jul 2024

7-11 Oct 2024

• Experienced system administrators
• Systems engineers
• System integrators

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Configure and manage a VMware Tools Repository
• Configure vSphere Replication and recover replicated VMs
• Manage VM resource usage with resource pools
• Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
• Configure VMware vCenter Server® High Availability
• Use host profiles to manage VMware ESXi 8 host compliance
• Use the vSphere Client and the command line to manage certificates
• Monitor the vCenter, ESXi, and VMs performance in the vSphere client
• Secure VMware vCenter 8, ESXi, and VMs in your vSphere environment
• Use Identity Federation to configure the vCenter to use external identity sources
• Use VMware vSphere® Trust AuthorityTM secure the infrastructure for encrypted VMs

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

• Recognize the role of a VMware ToolsTM Repository
• Configure a VMware Tools Repository
• Recognize the backup and restore solution for VMs
• Identify the components in the VMware vSphere® ReplicationTM architecture
• Deploy and configure vSphere Replication and VMware Site RecoveryTM instances
• Recover replicated VMs

• Create and manage resource pools in a cluster
• Describe how scalable shares work
• Describe the function of the vCLS
• Recognize operations that might disrupt the healthy functioning of vCLS VMs

• Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
• Describe how VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control enhances performance
• Explain distributed switch features such as port mirroring and NetFlow
• Define vSphere Distributed Services Engine
• Describe the use cases and benefits of VMware vSphere® Distributed Services EngineTM

• Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies
• Describe the architecture and requirements of vSAN configuration
• Describe storage policy-based management
• Recognize components in the VMware vSphere® Virtual VolumesTM architecture
• Configure Storage I/O Control

• Create a vCenter backup schedule 

• Recognize the importance of vCenter High Availability

• Explain how vCenter Server High Availability works

• Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance

• Recognize the benefits of using configuration profiles

• Use the vSphere client and the command line to manage certificates

• Monitor the key factors that can affect a virtual machine's performance
• Describe the factors that influence vCenter performance
• Use vCenter tools to monitor resource use
• Create custom alarms in vCenter
• Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware SkylineTM
• Recognize uses for VMware Skyline AdvisorTM Pro

• Recognize strategies for securing vSphere components, such as vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines
• Describe vSphere support for security standards and protocols
• Describe identity federation and recognize its use cases
• Configure identity federation to allow vCenter to use an external identity provider

• Configure ESXi Host Access and Authentication
• Describe virtual machine security features
• Describe the components of a VM encryption architecture
• Create, manage, and migrate encrypted VMs
• List VM encryption events and alarms
• Describe the benefits and use cases of vSphere Trust Authority

8-12 Jan 2024

19-23 Feb 2024 (Penang Date)

4-8 Mar 2024

13-17 May 2024

10-14 Jun 2024

22-26 Jul 2024

19-22 Aug 2024 (Penang Date)

9-13 Sep 2024

18-22 Nov 2024

9-13 Dec 2024 (Penang Date)

• System administrators
• Systems engineers

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Install and configure ESXi hosts
• Deploy and configure vCenter
• Use the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users
• Create virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches
• Create and configure datastores using storage technologies supported by vSphere
• Use the vSphere® ClientTM to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
• Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines
• Manage virtual machine resource allocation
• Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
• Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware
vSphere® Distributed Resource SchedulerTM
• Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

• Explain basic virtualization concepts
• Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
• Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
• Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs

• Install an ESXi host
• Recognize ESXi user account best practices
• Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client

• Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter
• Deploy vCenter Server Appliance
• Configure vCenter settings
• Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys
• Create and organize vCenter inventory objects
• Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions
• View vCenter logs and events 

• Configure and view standard switch configurations
• Configure and view distributed switch configurations
• Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches
• Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches 

• Recognize vSphere storage technologies

• Identify types of vSphere datastores

• Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing

• Describe iSCSI components and addressing

• Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi

• Create and manage VMFS datastores

• Configure and manage NFS datastores

• Create and provision VMs
• Explain the importance of VMware Tools
• Identify the files that make up a VM
• Recognize the components of a VM
• Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options
• Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources
• Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them
• Clone VMs
• Create customization specifications for guest operating systems
• Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries
• Deploy VMs from content libraries
• Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries 

• Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances
• Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion
• Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations
• Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion
• Take a snapshot of a VM
• Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots
• Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment
• Describe how VMs compete for resources
• Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits

• Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
• View information about a vSphere cluster
• Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster
• Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings
• Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster
• Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures
• Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster
• Recognize vSphere HA design considerations
• Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings
• Configure a vSphere HA cluster
• Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance

• Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
• Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner
• Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports
• Recognize features of VMware vSphere® Lifecycle ManagerTM
• Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images
• Describe how to update hosts using baselines
• Describe ESXi images
• Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and update ESXi hosts
• Update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations
• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware