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During this five-day, intensive course, you gain the knowledge, skills, and tools to plan and deploy a VMware vSAN™ cluster. You learn about managing and operating vSAN. This course focuses on building the required skills for common Day-2 vSAN administrator tasks such as vSAN node management, cluster maintenance, security operations, and advanced vSAN cluster operations.
You also focus on learning the tools and skills necessary to troubleshoot vSAN 7 implementations and gain practical experience with vSAN troubleshooting concepts through the completion of instructor-led activities and hands-on lab exercises.
This course is a combination of the following courses: VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy, VMware vSAN: Management and Operations, and VMware vSAN: Troubleshooting.
10-14 Apr 2023
Storage and virtual infrastructure consultants, solution architects, and administrators who are responsible for production support and administration of VMware vSAN [v7]
Completion of the following course is required:
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent knowledge
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Describe vSAN concepts
• Detail the underlying vSAN architecture and components
• Explain the key features and use cases for vSAN
• Identify requirements and planning considerations for vSAN clusters
• Describe the different vSAN deployment options
• Explain how to configure vSAN fault domains
• Detail how to define and create a VM Storage policy
• Discuss the impact of vSAN storage policy changes
• Describe vSAN storage space efficiency
• Explain how vSAN encryption works
• Identify requirements to configure vSAN iSCSI target
• Detail HCI Mesh technology and architecture
• Detail vSAN file service architecture and configuration
• Explain the use cases of vSAN Direct
• Describe how to setup stretched and two-node vSAN clusters
• Explain the importance vSAN node hardware compatibility
• Describe the use of VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to automate driver and firmware installations
• Detail vSAN resilience and data availability
• Discuss the vSAN cluster backup methodology
• Describe the vSAN maintenance mode and data evacuation options
• Define the steps to shut down a vSAN cluster for maintenance
• Explain how to use proactive tests to check the integrity of a vSAN cluster
• Use VMware Skyline Health™ for monitoring vSAN health
• Apply a structured approach to troubleshoot vSAN cluster configuration and operational problems
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Describe vSAN architecture
• Describe the vSAN software components: CLOM, DOM, LSOM, CMMDS, and RDT
• Identify vSAN objects and components
• Describe the advantages of object-based storage
• Describe the difference between All-Flash and Hybrid vSAN architecture
• Explain the key features and use cases for vSAN
• Discuss the vSAN integration and compatibility with other VMware technologies
• Identify requirements and planning considerations for vSAN clusters
• Apply vSAN cluster planning and deployment best practices
• Determine and plan for storage consumption by data growth and failure tolerance
• Design vSAN hosts for operational needs
• Identify vSAN networking features and requirements
• Describe ways of controlling traffic in a vSAN environment
• Recognize best practices for vSAN network configurations
• Recognize the importance of hardware compatibility
• Ensure the compatibility of driver and firmware versioning
• Use tools to automate driver validation and installation
• Apply host hardware settings for optimum performance
• Use vSphere Life Cycle Manager to perform upgrades
• Deploy and configure a vSAN Cluster using Cluster Quickstart wizard
• Manually configure a vSAN Cluster using vSphere Client
• Explain and configure vSAN fault domains
• Using vSphere HA with vSAN
• Understand vSAN Cluster maintenance capabilities
• Describe the difference between implicit and explicit fault domains
• Create explicit fault domains
• Describe a vSAN Object
• Describe how objects are split into components
• Explain the purpose of witness components
• Explain how vSAN stores large objects
• View object and component placement on the vSAN Datastore
• Explain how storage policies work with vSAN
• Define and create a virtual machine storage policy
• Apply and modify virtual machine storage policies
• Change virtual machine storage policies dynamically
• Identify virtual machine storage policy compliance status
• Describe and configure the Object Repair Timer advanced option
• Plan disk replacement in a vSAN cluster
• Plan maintenance tasks to avoid vSAN object failures
• Recognize the importance of managing snapshot utilization in a vSAN cluster
• Discuss Deduplication and Compression techniques
• Understand Deduplication and Compression overhead
• Discuss Compression only mode
• Configure Erasure Coding
• Configure swap object Thin Provisioning
• Discuss Reclaiming Storage Space with SCSI UNMAP
• Configure TRIM/UNMAP
• Identify differences between VM encryption and vSAN encryption
• Perform ongoing operations to maintain data security
• Describe the workflow of Data-in Transit encryption
• Identify the steps involved in replacing Key Management Server
• Identify requirements to configure vSAN iSCSI target
• Detail HCI Mesh technology and architecture
• Detail vSAN File Service architecture and configuration
• Explain the use cases of vSAN Direct
• Perform typical vSAN maintenance operations
• Describe vSAN maintenance modes and data evacuation options
• Assess the impact on cluster objects of entering maintenance mode
• Determine the specific data actions required after exiting maintenance mode
• Define the steps to shut down and reboot hosts and vSAN clusters
• Use best practices for boot devices
• Replace vSAN Nodes
• Describe the architecture and uses case for stretched clusters
• Detail the deployment and replacement of a vSAN Witness node
• Describe the architecture and uses case for twonode clusters
• Explain the benefits of vSphere HA and vSphere Site Recovery Manager in a vSAN stretched cluster
• Explain storage policies for vSAN stretched cluster
• Describe how the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) enables VMware to improve products and services
• Use vSphere Skyline Health for monitoring vSAN Cluster Health
• Manage alerts, alarms, and notifications related to vSAN in vSphere Client
• Create and configure custom alarms to trigger vSAN health issues
• Use IO Insight metrics for monitoring vSAN performance
• Analyse vsantop performance metrics
• Use vSAN Proactive Test to detect and diagnose cluster issues
• Use a structured approach to solve configuration and operational problems
• Apply troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and optimize troubleshooting efficiency
• Use Skyline Health for vSAN to identify and correct issues in VMware vSAN
• Discuss the ways to run various command-line tools
• Discuss the ways to access VMware vSphere ESXi Shell
• Use commands to view, configure, and manage your VMware vSphere environment
• Discuss the esxcli vsan namespace commands
• Use log files to help vSAN troubleshooting
In this two-day course, you focus on learning the tools and skills necessary to troubleshoot VMware vSAN™ 7 implementations. You gain practical experience with vSAN troubleshooting concepts through the completion of instructorled activities and hands-on lab exercises.
3-5 Jul 2023
Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators who want to be able to perform initial troubleshooting on their softwaredefined storage with vSAN
Before taking this course, students should take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge and experience:
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy
• VMware vSAN: Management and Operations
The course presumes that a student can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling:
• Use VMware vSphere® Client™ for common operations
• Create and manage VMware vCenter Server® objects, such as data centers, clusters, hosts, and virtual machines
• Create and modify a standard switch
• Modify a distributed switch
• Create a VMware vSphere® VMFS datastore
• Use a wizard or a template to create a virtual machine
• Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Describe the vSAN architecture and components
• Describe the policy-driven, object-based vSAN storage environment
• Describe the CLOM, DOM, LSOM, CMMDS, and RDT vSAN software components
• Explain the relationship between objects and components
• Determine how specific storage policies affect components
• Describe component placement
• Use a structured approach to solve configuration and operational problems
• Apply troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and optimize troubleshooting efficiency
• Discuss VMware Skyline Health and the associated service
• Describe the use of VMware Skyline Health to identify and correct problems in VMware vSAN
• Apply information presented by vSAN Health online towards problem-solving
• Use vsantop to view vSAN performance metrics
• Discuss the ways to run commands from the vCenter Server and ESXi command lines
• Discuss the ways to access vSphere ESXi Shell
• Use commands to view, configure, and manage your vSphere environment
• Discuss the esxcli vsan namespace commands
• Discuss when to use Ruby vSphere Console (RVC) commands
• Explain which log files are useful for vSAN troubleshooting
• Use log files to help troubleshoot vSAN problems
In this three-day course, you learn about managing and operating VMware vSAN™ 7. This course focuses on building the required skills for common Day-2 vSAN administrator tasks such as, vSAN node management, cluster maintenance, security operations and advanced vSAN cluster operations. You also gain practical experience through the completion of instructorled activities and hands-on lab exercises.
20-22 Sep 2023
Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators who are responsible for production support and administration of VMware vSAN 7.
Completion of the following courses is required:
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [v7] or equivalent knowledge
• VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy [v7]
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Define the tasks involved in vSAN node management
• Updating and upgrading vSAN using VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager™
• Explain vSAN resilience and data availability features
• Reconfigure vSAN storage policies and observe the cluster-wide impact
• Perform vSAN cluster scale-out and scale-up operations
• Describe common vSAN cluster maintenance operations
• Control vSAN resync operations
• Manage two-node cluster and stretched cluster advance operations
• Configure vSAN storage efficiency and reclamation features
• Use VMware Skyline™ Health to monitor cluster health, performance, and storage capacity
• Describe vSAN security operations
• Configure vSAN Direct for cloud native applications
• Configure remote vSAN datastore and vSAN native file services
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Recognize the importance of hardware compatibility
• Ensure the compatibility of driver and firmware versioning
• Use tools to automate driver validation and installation
• Apply host hardware settings for optimum performance
• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to perform upgrades
• Describe vSAN storage policies
• Recognize the impact of a vSAN storage policy change
• Describe and configure the Object Repair Timer advanced option
• Plan disk replacement in a vSAN cluster
• Plan maintenance tasks to avoid vSAN object failures
• Recognize the importance of managing snapshot utilization in a vSAN cluster
• Configure the vSAN fault domains
• Perform typical vSAN maintenance operations
• Describe vSAN maintenance modes and data evacuation options
• Assess the impact on cluster objects of entering maintenance mode
• Determine the specific data actions required after exiting maintenance mode
• Define the steps to shut down and reboot hosts and vSAN clusters
• Use best practices for boot devices
• Replace vSAN nodes
• Discuss the use cases for Remote vSAN
• Understand the high-level architecture
• Describe remote datastore operations
• Discuss the network requirement
• Interoperability between Remote vSAN and VMware vSphere-High Availability
• Describe the architecture for stretched clusters and two-node clusters
• Understand the importance of Witness Node
• Describe how stretched cluster storage policies affect vSAN objects
• Create and apply a vSAN stretched cluster policy to meet specific needs
• Discuss stretched cluster failure scenarios and responses
• Discuss Deduplication and Compression techniques
• Understand Deduplication and Compression overhead
• Discuss Compression only mode
• Configure Erasure Coding
• Configure swap object Thin Provisioning
• Discuss Reclaiming Storage Space with SCSI UNMAP
• Configure TRIM/UNMAP
• Identify differences between VM encryption and vSAN encryption
• Perform ongoing operations to maintain data security
• Describe the workflow of Data-in Transit encryption
• Identify the steps involved in replacing Key Management Server
• Describe how the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) enables VMware to improve products and services
• Use vSphere Skyline Health for monitoring vSAN Cluster Health
• Manage alerts, alarms, and notifications related to vSAN in vSphere Client
• Create and configure custom alarms to trigger vSAN health issues
• Use IO Insight metrics for monitoring vSAN performance
• Analyse vsantop performance metrics
• Use vSAN Proactive Test to detect and diagnosecluster issues
• Discuss the use cases for vSAN Direct
• Understand the overall architecture of vSAN Direct
• Describe the workflow of vSAN Direct datastore creation
• Explore how vSAN Direct works with storage policy tagging
• Discuss the use cases for vSAN file service
• Understand the high-level architecture of vSAN file service
• Discuss the authentication model
• Configure file shares
• Monitor file share health and capacity utilization
This two-day, hands-on training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and tools to plan and deploy a VMware vSAN™ cluster. In this course, you are taught the many considerations that the vSAN configuration has on the initial planning of the vSAN datastore. You also manually configure a vSAN cluster.
29-30 May 2023
1-2 Jun 2023
Experienced VMware vSphere® administrators
You should have the following understanding or knowledge:
• Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course
• Knowledge of basic storage concepts
• Experience using vSphere Client to perform administrative tasks on vSphere clusters
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Explain the key features and use cases for vSAN
• Detail the underlying vSAN architecture and components
• Describe the different vSAN deployment options
• Detail vSAN cluster requirements and considerations
• Apply recommended vSAN design considerations and capacity sizing practices
• Explain the influence of vSAN objects and components on the initial cluster plan
• Determine and plan for storage consumption by data growth and failure tolerance
• Design vSAN hosts for operational needs
• Explain Maintenance Mode use and its impacts on vSAN
• Apply best practices for vSAN network configurations
• Manually configure a vSAN cluster using VMware vSphere® Client™
• Explain and configure vSAN fault domains
• Understand and apply vSAN storage policies
• Define encryption in the vSAN cluster
• Describe the architecture and use cases for stretched clusters
• Configure a stretched cluster
• Understand the steps involved in creating the vSAN iSCSI target services
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Describe vSAN architecture
• Describe the advantages of object-based storage
• Describe the difference between All-Flash and Hybrid vSAN architecture
• Explain the key features and use cases for vSAN
• Discuss the vSAN integration and compatibility with other VMware technologies
• Identify vSAN objects and components
• Describe a vSAN object
• Describe how objects are split into components
• Explain the purpose of witness components
• Explain how vSAN stores large objects
• View object and component placement on the vSAN datastore
• Identify requirements and planning considerations for vSAN clusters
• Apply vSAN cluster planning and deployment best practices
• Determine and plan for storage consumption by data growth and failure tolerance
• Design vSAN hosts for operational needs
• Identify vSAN networking features and requirements
• Describe ways of controlling traffic in a vSAN environment
• Recognize best practices for vSAN network configurations
• Deploy and configure a vSAN cluster using the Cluster QuickStart wizard
• Manually configure a vSAN cluster using vSphere Client
• Explain and configure vSAN fault domains
• Using VMware vSphere® High Availability with vSAN
• Understand vSAN cluster maintenance capabilities
• Describe the difference between implicit and explicit fault domains
• Create explicit fault domains
• Explain how storage policies work with vSAN
• Explain the role of storage policies in planning a vSAN cluster
• Define and create virtual machine storage policies
• Apply and modify virtual machine storage policies
• Change virtual machine storage policies dynamically
• Identify virtual machine storage policy compliance status
• Define and configure compression and deduplication in the vSAN cluster
• Define and configure encryption in the vSAN cluster
• Understand the remote vSAN datastore topology
• Identify the operations involved in managing the remote vSAN datastore
• Configure the vSAN iSCSI target service
• Describe the architecture and use cases for stretched clusters
• Detail the deployment and replacement of a vSAN witness node
• Describe the architecture and use cases for twonode clusters
• Explain the benefits of vSphere HA and VMware Site Recovery Manager™ in a vSAN stretched cluster
• Explain storage policies for vSAN stretched cluster
In this 2-day course, you will explore the new features and enhancements in VMware vCenter® 8.0, VMware ESXi™ 8.0, and VMware vSphere® 8.0. Through use-case scenarios, demonstrations, labs, and simulations, you develop skills to implement and configure vSphere 8.0.
Available Upon Request
System architects, system administrators, IT managers, VMware partners, and individuals responsible for implementing and managing vSphere architectures who want to deploy vSphere 8.0 into their existing vSphere environment.
This course requires completion of one of the following courses, or equivalent knowledge, plus administration experience
with ESXi and vCenter Server:
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Recognize the importance of key features and enhancements in vSphere 8.0
• Describe the purpose of VMware vSphere® Distributed Services Engine™
• Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to update an ESXi host that has a data processing unit (DPU)
• Identify devices supported for system storage on ESXi 8.0
• Recognize enhancements to VM hardware compatibility settings
• Recognize changes related to vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation that improve VMware vSphere®
Distributed Resource Scheduler™
• Describe the new virtual non-uniform memory access (vNUMA) topology settings in the VMware vSphere® Client™
• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager and VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to manage configuration specifications for hosts in a cluster
• Recognize vSphere Lifecycle Manager and Auto Deploy enhancements in vSphere 8.0
• Describe new cluster management features in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0
• Recognize the cloud benefits that VMware vSphere+ brings to on-premises workloads
• Identify discontinued or deprecated features and technology in vSphere 8.0
VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage is a five-day combination course of VMware Horizon 8: Skills for Virtual Desktop Management & VMware Horizon 8: Infrastructure Administration. This training collection gives you the hands-on skills to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single virtual desktop infrastructure platform. You will build on your skills in configuring and managing VMware Horizon® 8 through a combination of lecture and hands-on labs. You learn how to configure and deploy pools of virtual machines and how to provide a customized desktop environment to end-users. Additionally, you will learn how to install and configure a virtual desktop infrastructure platform. You learn how to install and configure VMware Horizon® Connection Server™, VMware Unified Access Gateway™, how to configure a load balancer for use with Horizon, and how to establish Cloud Pod Architecture.
11-15 Sep 2023
Operators, administrators, and architects for VMware Horizon should enroll in this course. These individuals are responsible for the creation, maintenance, and or delivery of remote and virtual desktop services. Additional duties can include the implementation, support, and administration of an organization's end-user computing infrastructure.
Customers attending this course should have, at a minimum, the following skills:
Attendees should also have the following Microsoft Windows system administration experience:
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
This five-day, fast-paced course provides comprehensive training on how to install, configure, and manage a VMware NSX-T™ Data Center environment. This course covers key NSX-T Data Center features and functionality offered in the NSX-T Data Center 3.0 release, including the overall infrastructure, logical switching, logical routing, networking and security services, micro-segmentation and firewalls, and more.
Access to a software-defined data center environment is provided through hands-on labs to reinforce the skills and concepts presented in the course.
3-7 Oct 2022
Experienced system administrators or network administrators
• Good understanding of TCP/IP services and network security and working experience with firewalls
• Working experience with enterprise switching and routing
Solid understanding of concepts presented in the following courses:
• VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals
• VMware Introduction to Network Virtualization with NSX
• VMware Network Virtualization Fundamentals
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Describe VMware Virtual Cloud Network and the NSX-T Data Center architecture
• Describe the NSX-T Data Center components and main functions
• Explain the NSX-T Data Center key features and benefits
• Deploy and configure NSX-T Data Center infrastructure
• Configure layer 2 logical switching and bridging
• Explain the tiered routing architecture and configure gateways
• Configure advanced services such as VPN and load balancing
• Describe the NSX-T Data Center security model with micro-segmentation
• Configure Distributed Firewall and Gateway Firewall to protect east-west and north-south traffic
• Explain advanced security enforcement with URL analysis, IDS, and partner service insertion
• Integrate VMware Identity ManagerTM or LDAP with NSX-T Data Center and configure role-based access control
• Describe NSX-T Data Center Federation use-cases and architecture for switching, routing, and security.
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Introduce VMware’s Virtual Cloud Network vision
• Discuss NSX-T Data Center solutions, use cases, and benefits
• Explain NSX-T Data Center architecture and components
• Describe VMware NSX® product portfolio and features
• Explain the management, control, data, and consumption planes and function
• Describe NSX Management Cluster
• Deploy VMware NSX® Manager™ nodes on VMware ESXi and KVM hypervisors
• Navigate through the NSX Manager UI
• Explain data-plane components such as N-VDS, transport nodes, transport zones, profiles, and more
• Perform transport node preparation and establish the data center infrastructure
• Verify transport node status and connectivity
• Introduce key components and terminology in logical switching
• Describe the function and types of L2 segments
• Explain tunneling and the GENEVE encapsulation
• Configure logical segments and attach hosts using NSX Manager UI
• Describe the function and types of segment profiles
• Create segment profiles and apply them to segments and ports
• Explain the function of MAC, ARP, and TEP tables used in packet forwarding
• Demonstrate L2 unicast packet flow
• Explain ARP suppression and BUM traffic handling
• Describe the logical routing function and use cases
• Introduce the two-tier routing architecture, topologies, and components
• Explain the Tier-0 and Tier-1 Gateway functions
• Describe the logical router components: Service Router and Distributed Router
• Discuss the architecture and function of VMware NSX® Edge™ nodes
• Discuss deployment options of NSX Edge nodes
• Configure NSX Edge nodes and create NSX Edge clusters
• Configure Tier-0 and Tier-1 Gateways
• Examine the single-tier and multitier packet flow
• Configure static routing and dynamic routing
• Enable ECMP on Tier-0 Gateway
• Describe NSX Edge HA, failure detection, and failback modes
• Describe the function of logical bridging
• Discuss the logical bridging use cases
• Compare routing and bridging solutions
• Explain the components of logical bridging
• Create bridge clusters and bridge profiles
• Introduce the NSX-T Data Center security approach and model
• Describe the micro-segmentation benefits and use cases
• Describe the Distributed Firewall architecture, components, and function
• Configure Distributed Firewall sections and rules
• Describe the Gateway Firewall architecture, components, and function
• Configure Gateway Firewall sections and rules
• Describe URL analysis and distributed intrusion system importance and use-cases.
• Describe the service insertion functionality for eastwest and north-south security
• Discuss the integration and benefits of partner security solutions with NSX-T Data Center
• Describe NSX-T Data Center services
• Explain and configure Network Address Translation (NAT) and NAT 64
• Explain and configure DNS and DHCP services
• Describe the load-balancing function, topologies, components, and use cases
• Configure L4-L7 load balancing
• Discuss the IPSec VPN and L2 VPN function and use case
• Configure IPSec VPN and L2 VPN using NSX Manager UI
• Explain the importance and functionality of VMware NSX® Intelligence™
• Navigate through the NSX Topology UI and identify the various key elements in the UI
• Discuss the importance and use-cases of alarms and events
• Describe the function and benefits of VMware Identity Manager in NSX-T Data Center
• Integrate VMware Identity Manager with NSX-T Data Center
• Integrate LDAP with NSX-T Data Center
• Identify the various types of users, authentication policies, and permissions
• Use role-based access control to restrict user access
• Explain the built-in roles in VMware Identity Manager and role assignment to users
• Introduce the NSX-T Data Center Federation key concepts, terminology, and use-cases.
• Explain the onboarding process of NSX-T Data Center Federation
• Describe the NSX-T Data Center Federation switching and routing functions.
• Describe the NSX-T Data Center Federation security concepts and routing functions
In this five-day course, you will configure and secure unified endpoint activation, registration, and authentication. You will learn how to integrate industry-recognized enterprise technologies with VMware Workspace ONE®. Through a combination of hands-on labs, simulations, and interactive lectures, you learn how to configure and manage the endpoint lifecycle. The principles of enterprise mobility, unified endpoint, and identity management are addressed throughout the course. You will leave the training empowered with the foundational skills and knowledge needed to effectively implement Workspace ONE.
Available upon request
Workspace ONE administrators, experienced mobility and identity administrators, account managers, solutions architects, solutions engineers, sales engineers, and consultants
This course has no prerequisites.
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
This two-day, hands-on training course gives experienced VMware vSphere® administrators the knowledge to install, configure, and manage VMware Site Recovery Manager™ 8.2. This course also shows you how to write and test disaster recovery plans that use Site Recovery Manager.
This course is also available in an On Demand format. For more information, select this link: VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.2] - On Demand.
Product Alignment
• VMware Site Recovery Manager [V8.2]
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
This class requires completion of one of the following courses:
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x]
• VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6.x]
• VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5.5 to V6.x]
• VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Workshop [V6.x]
Or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with VMware ESXi™ and VMware vCenter Server™.
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
This five-day, hands-on training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competence in operating and troubleshooting the VMware NSX® 6.4 environment. In this course, you are introduced to several operational, management, and troubleshooting tools. You will be presented with various types of technical problems, which you will identify, analyze, and solve through a systematic process.
Available upon request
Network professionals who work with enterprise networks and VMware Sphere® 6.x
• Knowledge and working experience of computer networking, including:
o Switching and routing technologies (L2-3)
o Network and application delivery services (L4-7)
• Knowledge and working experience of vSphere
• Knowledge and working experience of NSX installation, configuration, management, and operations
Before taking this course, you ought to take either the VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage course or the VMware NSX for Internetworking Experts Fast Track course.
The VMware Certified Professional 6 – Network Virtualization (VCP6-NV) certification is recommended.
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Establish and apply a structured troubleshooting approach and methodology
• Explain the native NSX tools, VMware vRealize® Suite tools, and partner tools that are useful for
monitoring, troubleshooting, and operations
• Explain the NSX infrastructure components and the communications between them
• Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to the NSX management, control, and data planes
• Identify, analyze and troubleshoot problems related to NSX logical switching, logical routing, and
VMware
NSX® Edge™ services
• Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot network security problems related to the NSX distributed firewall and
the NSX Edge firewall
Certifications
This course prepares you for the following certification:
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional 6 – Network Virtualization Deployment (VCAP6-NV Deploy)
• Introduction and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Resources and references
• Learning paths and certifications
• Develop a structured troubleshooting approach
• Differentiate between symptoms and root causes
• Identify and isolate problems residing in various areas
• Apply an appropriate methodology and procedure to troubleshooting
• Discuss NSX operational requirements
• Use the native NSX tools (such as the central CLI, the NSX dashboard, and Application Rule Manager) to
solve various types of problems
• Use vRealize Network Insight to identify and analyze problems
• Use VMware vRealize® Log Insight™ Content Pack for NSX in troubleshooting and operations
• Explain the NSX infrastructure and component communications
• Troubleshoot VMware NSX® Manager™ and the management plane
• Troubleshoot VMware NSX® Controller™ and the control plane
• Troubleshoot problems in host preparation
• Explain VXLAN and logical switching components
• Verify the VXLAN and logical switch configuration and status
• Identify and troubleshoot common layer 2 configuration errors
• Use the GUI, the CLI, packet capture, traceflow, and other tools to troubleshoot logical switching problems
• Describe the NSX logical routing architecture
• Explain routing components, functions, and communications
• Verify logical router configuration settings
• Use packet capture on routers and perform packet walk
• Use the GUI, the CLI, traceflow, and other tools to troubleshoot logical routing problems
• Verify edge services (such as DHCP and DNS) configuration settings and operational status
• Troubleshoot various types of VPN services (SSL VPN-Plus, L2 VPN, and IPsec VPN)
• Verify the configuration and status of logical load balancers
• Troubleshoot common load-balancing and high availability scenarios
• Discuss the NSX distributed firewall architecture, components, communication channels, and features
• Use the CLI and other tools to troubleshoot the configuration and operations of the NSX distributed firewall
and the NSX Edge firewall
• Explain and troubleshoot the Service Composer components and architecture
• Troubleshoot common problems related to Identity Firewall
• Examine Guest Introspection architecture, components, services, and operations
• Verify Guest Introspection deployment configuration and functions, and troubleshoot common problems
This comprehensive, fast-paced training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware NSX®. This course presents VMware NSX as a part of the software-defined data center. You will learn how to use logical switching in VMware NSX to virtualize your switching environment. The course also details logical routing to enable you to dynamically route between different virtual environments. And you will learn how to take use gateway services, firewall configurations, and security services to help secure and optimize your VMware NSX environment.
Access to a software-defined data center environment is provided through hands-on labs to reinforce the skills and concepts presented in the course.
Experienced system or network administrators
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Describe the evolution of the software-defined data center
• Describe VMware vSphere®
• Describe VMware NSX
• Understand the management, control, and data planes
• Describe VMware NSX® Manager™
• Describe the VMware NSX® Controller™ cluster
• Describe Ethernet fundamentals
• Describe VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™
• Describe switch link aggregation
• Describe VLAN
• Describe VXLAN logical switch networks
• Describe VMware NSX Controller replication
• Discuss routing protocols
• Describe the VMware NSX logical router
• Describe the NSX Edge services gateway
• Understand L2 bridging and use cases
• Describe L2 software bridging
• Describe L2 hardware bridging
• Describe network address translation
• Describe load balancing
• Describe high availability
• Describe virtual private networking
• Configure L2 VPN
• Configure IPsec VPN
• Configure SSL VPN-Plus
• Describe the NSX Edge firewall
• Describe the VMware NSX distributed firewall
• Describe VMware NSX data security
• Describe the Service Composer
• Describe the identity-aware firewall
• Understand the cross-vCenter VMware NSX feature
• Identify the benefits of the cross-vCenter VMware NSX feature
• Configure the cross-vCenter VMware NSX feature
• Discuss the deployment models for cross-vCenter VMware NSX
During this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vRealize® Automation™. You learn about how vRealize Automation can be used to automate the delivery of virtual machines, applications, and personalized IT services across different data centers and hybrid cloud environments.
The course covers how to manage both on-premise systems and cloud services. The course covers how vRealize Automation Service Broker can aggregate content in native formats from multiple clouds and platforms into a common catalog.
This course also covers interfacing vRealize Automation with other systems using VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™ and how to use vRealize Automation to manage Kubernetes systems and leverage other systems. The course also covers integrating with Terraform and using SaltStack as a configuration management tool.
This course makes heavy use of hands-on labs. Students can run 39 labs during the 5-day course.
Product Alignment
21-25 Aug 2023
20-24 Nov 2023
Experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for designing and implementing vRealize Automation
This course requires completion of one of the following courses:
Experience working at the command line is helpful.
This course requires that a student be able to perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:
If you cannot perform all of these tasks, VMware recommends that you complete one of the prerequisite courses before enrolling in VMware vRealize Automation: Install, Configure, Manage.
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Describe the purpose and functionality of vRealize Automation
• Describe the vRealize Automation architecture
• Describe the use of VMware Workspace ONE® AccessTM
• Describe the relationship between Kubernetes clusters, containers, and vRealize Automation services
• Describe CLI commands for vRealize Automation 8 cluster management
• Describe Cloud Assembly
• Describe Service Broker
• Describe Code Stream
• List the different vRealize Automation deployment types
• Describe the purpose of vRealize easy installer
• Describe the vRealize Automation installation process
• Identity the steps involved in integrating Workspace One with Active Directory
• Describe features of Workspace One
• Describe the user roles available in vRealize Automation
• Identify the key tasks performed by each user role
• Define custom roles
• Configure branding and multitenancy
• Quickly create a basic configuration with a cloud account, cloud zone, project, flavor mapping, and image mapping.
• Configure and deploy a basic cloud template
• Create cloud templates that can run on any cloud
• Use cloudConfig to run commands, install software, and create users
• Use YAML for inputs, variables, and conditional deployments
• Configure tags
• Describe different types of tags
• Manage tags
• Configure storage profiles
• Use tags and storage profiles
• List the capabilities and use cases of NSX-T Data Center
• Describe the NSX-T Data Center architecture and components
• Integrate NSX-T Data Center with vRealize Automation
• List the supported network profiles in vRealize Automation
• Use NSX-T Data Center components to design a multitier application Cloud Template
• Identify the network and security options available in design canvas
• Create and manage on-demand networks and security groups
• Configure NSX-T day 2 actions
• Configure and use VMware Cloud Foundation accounts
• Configure and use an AWS cloud account
• Configure and use an Azure cloud account
• Configure and use a Google Cloud Platform cloud account
• Release a VMware Cloud Template™
• Define content source and content sharing
• Define Service Broker policy enforcement
• Use custom forms for catalog items
• Describe Extensibility
• Use event topics
• Create a subscription
• Call a vRealize Orchestrator workflow
• Create ABX actions
• Introduction to Code Stream
• The CI/CD process
• Integrate GitLab with Code Stream and Cloud Assembly
• Use Code Stream to install software
• Integrate Cloud Assembly with Terraform
• Use Terraform with a VMware Cloud Template
• Use Terraform with Code Stream
• Introduction to Kubernetes
• Connect to an existing Kubernetes Cluster
• Integrate VMware Tanzu™ Grid Integrated Edition
• Create a Supervisor Namespace as a catalog item
• Introduction SaltStack with vRealize Automation
• Use SaltStack for software deployment
• Use SaltStack for configuration management
• Use SaltStack with event-driven orchestration
• Location of logs
• Using Activity
• Monitoring deployment history
• Basic troubleshooting
• CLI commands
• Collecting logs (VAMI console)
• Integration with VMware vRealize® Log Insight™
• Integration with vRealize Operations
• Migrating vRealize Automation 7.x to 8
This five-day, hands-on training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere® 7.x environment. This workshop increases your skill and competence in using the command-line interface, VMware vSphere® Client™, log files, and other tools to analyze and solve problems.
23-27 Aug 2021
This course requires completion of one of the following prerequisites:
Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server
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
This course, equivalent to 5 days of training, teaches you advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you configure and optimize the VMware vSphere 8 features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure.
You also discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. Attend this course to deepen your understanding of vSphere and learn how its advanced features and controls can benefit your organization.
7-11 Aug 2023
This course requires the following:
• Attend VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]
• Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter
• Experience with working at the command line is highly recommended
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
• 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