Training is not a commodity – all training centres are not the same. Iverson Associates Sdn Bhd is the most established, the most reputable, and the top professional IT training provider in Malaysia. With a large pool of experienced and certified trainers, state-of-the-art facilities, and well-designed courseware, Iverson offers superior training, a more impactful learning experience and highly effective results.
At Iverson, our focus is on providing high-quality IT training to corporate customers, meeting their learning needs and helping them to achieve their training objectives. Iverson has the flexibility to provide training solutions whether for a single individual or the largest corporation in a well-paced or accelerated training programme.
Our courses continue to evolve along with the fast-changing technological advances. Our instructor-led training services are available on a public and a private (in-company) basis. Some of our courses are also available as online, on demand, and hybrid training.
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.
5-9 Sep 2022
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
1-5 Aug 2022
21-25 Nov 2022
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.
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
In this three-day, hands-on training course, you explore the new features and enhancements in VMware vCenter Server® 7.0 and VMware ESXi™ 7.0. Real-world use-case deployment scenarios, hands-on lab exercises, and lectures teach you the skills that you need to effectively implement and configure VMware vSphere® 7.
This course is recommended for customers who want to deploy vSphere 7 in their existing vSphere environment.
25-27 Jan 2021 (Penang Date)
22-24 Feb 2021
14-16 Jun 2021
21-23 Jul 2021 (Penang Date)
4-6 Oct 2021
System architects, system administrators, IT managers, VMware partners, and individuals responsible for implementing and managing vSphere architectures
This course requires completion of one the following courses or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server:
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale
• VMware vSphere: Fast Track
• VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting
The course material presumes that you can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:
• Install and configure ESXi
• Install vCenter Server
• Create vCenter Server objects, such as data centers and folders
• Create and manage vCenter Server roles and permissions
• Create and modify a standard switch
• Create and modify a distributed switch
• Connect an ESXi host to NAS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel storage
• Create a VMware vSphere® VMFS datastore
• Use a content library template to create a virtual machine
• Modify a virtual machine’s hardware
• Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
• Configure and manage a VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ cluster
• Configure and manage a VMware vSphere® High Availability cluster
• Use VMware vSphere® Update ManagerTM to apply patches and perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and VMs
If you cannot complete these tasks, VMware recommends that you instead take the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] course.
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 6.7 update releases and vSphere 7
• Migrate a vCenter Server system for Windows to VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ 7.0
• Upgrade a vCenter Server instance to vSphere 7
• Describe vCenter Server, VMware ESXi™, storage, network, virtual machine, and security enhancements in vSphere 7
• Update templates in the content library
• Use Identity Federation to configure vCenter Server to use external identity sources
• Use the VMware vSphere® Client™ to manage certificates
• Use VMware vSphere® Trust Authority™ to secure the infrastructure for encrypted VMs
• Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to manage vSphere deployments and updates
• Describe the cloning and migration operations on encrypted VMs
• Describe the purpose of scalable shares and the improvements to vSphere DRS
• Describe how to change the IP address or FQDN of vCenter Server
• Identify new hardware device support in ESXi 7.0
• Recognize the enhancements available with VM compatibility version 17
• Recognize the importance of containers and Kubernetes in a modern data center
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Describe the new vCenter Server Appliance deployment model
• Upgrade a vCenter Server Appliance instance to vCenter Server Appliance 7.0
• Migrate a Windows vCenter Server instance to vCenter Server Appliance 7.0
• Identify enhancements to vCenter Server Appliance
• Upgrade an ESXi host to version 7.0
• Recognize how to create and apply vCenter Server profiles
• Identify the scaling and performance improvements for vCenter Server Appliance
• Describe the support provided for dynamic DNS
• Recognize how to change the IP address or FQDN of vCenter Server
• Identify enhancements to the vCenter Server filebased backup
• Identify enhancements to tools provided by the vSphere Client Developer Center
• Describe prefix-based MAC address allocation
• Identify VMware NSX-T™ logical switches and their properties in the vSphere Client
• Describe version control and management of VM templates in Content Library
• Perform a VM template in-place update in Content Library
• Describe identity federation and recognize its use cases
• Configure identity federation
• Manage certificates using the vSphere Client
• Explain the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline™
• Recognize the enhancements made to ESXi security
• Identify hardware support updates in ESXi 7.0
• Recognize layout changes in the ESXi 7.0 system storage partitions
• Describe the enhancements made to ESXi timekeeping options in vSphere 7
• Identify the characteristics of VM compatibility level for ESXi 7.0
• Describe the support provided for new virtual devices in vSphere 7
• Recognize improvements to guest customization
• Migrate VMs with attached devices
• Describe the enhancements to NVMe support
• Describe the enhancements to VMware Pluggable Storage Architecture
• Describe the purpose of the High-Performance Plug-in
• Describe the support for iSER in vSphere 7
• Describe support for iSER in vSphere 7
• Identify VMware vSAN™ enhancements for vSphere 7
• Describe the enhancements to cloning, migration, and encryption operations
• Identify the enhancements to the VM encryption architecture in vSphere 7
• Recognize new VM encryption events and alarms
• Describe the benefits and use cases of VMware vSphere® Trust Authority™
• Explain the general architecture of vSphere Trust Authority
• Configure vSphere Trust Authority
• Recognize how to configure clusters using the vSphere Cluster Quickstart workflow
• Recognize improvements to vSphere DRS
• Identify improvements to vSphere ESX Agent Manager
• Describe scalable shares
• Configure VMware vSphere® DirectPath I/O™
• Describe features of vCenter Server Update Planner
• Run vCenter Server upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports
• Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Compare vSphere Lifecycle Manager to vSphere Update Manager
• Identify the components of an ESXi image
• Define a cluster image and update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Differentiate between containers and virtual machines
• Identify the parts of a container system
• Recognize the steps in a basic Docker workflow
• Explain the importance of Kubernetes
• Recognize the basic architecture of Kubernetes
• Describe a basic Kubernetes workflow
This training course, for experienced VMware vSphere® personnel, teaches advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. The course is based on VMware® ESXi™ 5.5 and VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.5.
This course prepares the student for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Datacenter Administration [V5] certification (VCAP5-DCA). Completion of this course also satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware® Certified Professional 5 exam.
22-26 Aug 2022
Completion of one of the following courses:
Or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server Experience working at the command prompt is highly recommended. Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course or VCA-DCV certification
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Note: About one-third of the VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5.5] course content is repeated in this course. The scalability topics in VMware vSphere: Fast Track are repeated in this course.
This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 7 and VMware vCenter Server® 7. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size.
This course is the foundation for most of the other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.
7-22 Mar 2022
11-15 Apr 2022
23-27 May 2022
13-17 Jun 2022
18-22 Jul 2022
22-26 Aug 2022
26-30 Sep 2022
17-21 Oct 2022
21-25 Nov 2022
5-9 Dec 2022
System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Describe the software-defined data center (SDDC)
• Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure
• Install and configure ESXi hosts
• Deploy and configure VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™
• Use VMware vSphere® Client™ to manage the vCenter Server inventory and the vCenter Server configuration
• Manage, monitor, back up, and protect vCenter Server Appliance
• Create virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
• Describe the storage technologies supported by vSphere
• Configure virtual storage using iSCSI and NFS storage
• Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores
• Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
• Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library
• Manage virtual machine resource use
• Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
• Create and manage a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™
• Discuss solutions for managing the vSphere life cycle
• Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Explain basic virtualization concepts
• Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
• Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage
• Recognize the user interfaces for accessing the vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts
• Describe the ESXi host architecture
• Navigate the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) to configure an ESXi host
• Recognize ESXi host user account best practices
• Install an ESXi host
• Use VMware Host Client™ to configure ESXi host settings
• Create and provision a virtual machine
• Explain the importance of VMware Tools™
• Install VMware Tools
• Identify the files that make up a VM
• Recognize the components of a VM
• Recognize virtual devices supported by a VM
• Describe the benefits and use cases for containers
• Identify the parts of a container system
• Describe the vCenter Server architecture
• Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
• Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
• Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory
• Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server
• Use roles and permissions to enable users to access objects in the vCenter Server inventory
• Back up vCenter Server Appliance
• Monitor vCenter Server tasks, events, and appliance health
• Use VMware vCenter Server® High Availability to protect a vCenter Server Appliance
• Create and manage standard switches
• Describe the virtual switch connection types
• Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping, and load-balancing policies
• Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches
• Identify storage protocols and storage device types
• Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores
• Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• Recognize the components of a VMware vSAN™ configuration
• Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
• Modify and manage virtual machines
• Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library
• Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine
• Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
• Describe the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility feature
• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
• Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Replication™
• Describe the benefits of VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Data Protection
• Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment
• Describe what overcommitment of a resource means
• Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
• Use various tools to monitor resource use
• Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events
• Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
• Create a vSphere DRS cluster
• Monitor a vSphere cluster configuration
• Describe options for making a vSphere environment highly available
• Explain the vSphere HA architecture
• Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
• Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
• Recognize the importance of vCenter Server Update Planner
• Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works
• Describe how to update ESXi hosts using baselines
• Validate ESXi host compliance using a cluster image
• Describe how to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware