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VMware vSphere 6.5 Ultimate Bootcamp Course Information
Course Length: 5 Days
VMware vSphere 6.5 is here!
VMware vSphere® 6.5 is a vital component of the VMware vCloud Suite®. Currently it is the industry leading virtualization technology platform accelerating the shift to cloud computing. The Ultimate Bootcamp® has become known to be the most comprehensive VMware training course in the industry. This course combines several popular VMware vSphere classes into one concentrated delivery, saving time and money while providing an in depth look at VMware's latest version release (6.5) in an accelerated learning format designed to immerse the student into the new features inherent to version 6.5.
The VMware vSphere Ultimate Bootcamp course maximizes the students' training experience with hands-on VMware vSphere labs based upon real-world scenarios and conducted with state-of-the art equipment. The Ultimate Bootcamp imparts students with the knowledge and skills necessary to maximize efficiency in the work place. The class will prepare the student to achieve the Certified Virtualization Expert 6.5 (CVE6.5) certification, which will demonstrate practical VMware vSphere knowledge and skills as a certified professional.
Course Objectives
- Describe the software-defined data center
- Deploy an ESXi host and create virtual machines
- Describe the vCenter Server architecture
- Deploy a VMware vCenter Server™ Appliance™
- Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host
- Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with NEW VMware
vSphere® Client™, NEW vSphere® Host
Client and VMware vSphere® Web Client
- Configure virtual networks with vSphere® standard
switches
- Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host
storage
- Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, vApps and
snapshots
- Describe new enhancements to NFS 4.1, VSAN 6.5 &
Virtual Volumes
- Describe and use the content library
- Manage changes to the vSphere environment
- Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion®
- Use VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® to migrate virtual
machine storage
- Monitor resource usage and manage resource pools
- Manage VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware
vSphere® Fault Tolerance
- Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™
clusters to improve host scalability
- Describe Proactive HA, VM-level encryption, Network
Aware DRS & Predictive DRS
- Use vSphere® distributed switches to improve network
scalability
- Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage for a
sophisticated enterprise
- Optimize the performance of all vSphere components
- Harden the vSphere® environment against security
threats
- Use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Shell to manage vSphere
- Describe BC/DR solutions vSphere® Replication 6.5 &
Site Recovery Manager
- Use NEW web based Sphere® Update Manager™ to apply
patches
- Use vSphere® Data Protection appliance to backup and
restores virtual machines
- Describe proper steps and pathways for upgrades of
previous versions of vSphere® to 6.5
- Perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual
machines, and vCenter Server operations
Pre-requisites
- System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
- Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course for VCA-DCV certification
Intended Audience
- Experienced system administrators
- Systems engineers
- System integrators
Sample VMware vSphere 6.5 Ultimate Bootcamp Course Outline
Chapter 1: Course
Introduction and Methodology (HOL)
Chapter 2: Virtualization
Overview in vSphere 6.5
1. Virtualization & Cloud
Overview
2. Other VMware and 3rd
Party Virtualization Products
3. What’s New in vSphere 6.5
Overview
Chapter 3: Planning and
Installing ESXi 6.5 (VMware vSphere Hypervisor)
1. Planning ESXi 6.5 Host
Deployment
2. vSphere 6.5 Deployment
Guidelines
3. ESXi 6.5 Image Builder
4. vSphere 6.5 Auto Deploy
(GUI & Command Line)
5. ESXi 6.5 Host Install
(HOL)
6. Configuring Hostname
Resolution and NTP (HOL)
7. Troubleshooting ESXi 6.5
Host
Chapter 4: Using Tools to
Administer a VMware® Environment
1. Overview of 3rd Party
Tools
2. ESXi Management (vSphere
Client, NEW V6.5 esxcli, vCLI, vMA, Putty, PowerCLI, Web) (HOL)
3. Linux Command Review
4. Troubleshooting the
vSphere Client
Chapter 5: vCenter™
Server 6.5 and Licensing
1. Demystifying vSphere
Licensing
2. Planning vCenter Server 6.5
Deployment
3. vCenter Server 6.5
Virtual Appliance & vCenter High Availability (VCHA)
4. vCenter Server 6.5
Installation (HOL)
5. vSphere 6.5 Web Client &
new 6.5 vSphere Clients (HOL)
6. vCenter Server 6.5
Inventory (HOL)
7. Managing vCenter Server 6.5
& new File based Backup/Restore (HOL)
8. Troubleshooting vCenter
Server 6.5, License & Database
Chapter 6: Configuring Networking
1. Create & Modify
Virtual Networks (HOL)
2. vSphere Distributed
Virtual Switches & NIOC (HOL)
3. 3rd Party
Distributed Switches
4. Create & Modify
Virtual Networks using CLI (HOL)
Chapter 7: Configuring
Storage
1. New Storage Features in
vSphere 6.5
2. Storage Concepts, Storage
Awareness & Profile Driven Storage
3. iSCSI Storage (GUI &
Command Line) (HOL)
4. Fibre Channel Storage
& Software FCoE (GUI & Command Line)
5. VMFS5 Datastores &
new VMFS6 features like SEsparse (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
6. NFS 3 & NFS 4.1
Datastores (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
7. Raw Device Mapping (RDM)
(HOL)
8. Solid State Disks (SSD)
9. vSphere Flash Read Cache
10. Storage & Management
Solutions
11. VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN)
6.5/6.1/6.2/6.5 & vsanSparse snapshot
12. VMware Virtual Volumes &
VASA 3.0 (VVols)
Chapter 8: VM Creation
and Configuration & Snapshots
1. Create a VM (HOL)
2. Create Multiple VMs,
Templates & Clones (HOL)
3. Virtual Appliances (HOL)
4. Configuration & Use
of vApps
5. VMware vCenter™
Standalone Converter (P2V, V2V) (HOL)
6. Manage VMs, PCI pass-through, Direct I/O, remote direct
memory access, and NVMe (HOL)
7. Virtual Machine
Startup/Shutdown (HOL)
8. Virtual Machine Snapshots
(HOL)
9. Troubleshooting Virtual
Machines
Chapter 9: Security and
Permissions
1. Controlling User Access
and Passwords (HOL)
2. ESXi Lockdown Mode
3. ESXi 6.5 AD Integration
(HOL)
4. Managing ESXi 6.5
Firewalls (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
5. VMware Certificate
Authority (VCA) & VMware Endpoint Certificate Services
Chapter 10: Server and VM
Monitoring
1. Optimizing Resources
2. Resource Pools
3. Latency Sensitive
Applications
4. Performance Monitoring (HOL)
5. Configuring Alarms (HOL)
6. ESXi, vCenter™ Logs and
syslog, NetFlow, Port Mirroring, esxtop (HOL)
Chapter 11: Advanced ESXi
and vCenter™ Management
1. Storage VMotion (HOL)
2. Configuring VMotion
(Enhanced, Cross-vCenter, Long Distance) (HOL)
3. Distributed Resource
Scheduler (DRS) (HOL)
4. DRS Cluster Monitoring
(HOL)
5. Storage Policy Based
Management
6. Storage Clusters &
Storage DRS (SDRS) (HOL)
7. Host Profiles 6.5 (HOL)
8. Enhanced Linked Mode
Chapter 12: Patching and
Upgrading vSphere™ vCenter™ ESXi
1. Patching ESXi 6.5 &
VCSA 6.5 (HOL)
2. Patching with Update
Manager (HOL)
3. Upgrading &
Migrations from earlier vSphere versions to vSphere 6.5
Chapter 13: Disaster
Recovery, Backup and Deployment
1. vSphere Replication 6.5
2. Site Recovery Manager 6.5
(SRM)
3. High Availability (HA)
& Fault Domain Manager (FDM) (HOL)
4. VM Fault Tolerance
5. Microsoft Clustering
6. Backup Strategies
7. VMware Data Protection 6.5
(VDP includes Advanced) (HOL)
8. Third Party Backups (HOL)
VMware vSphere 6.5 Ultimate Bootcamp Certification Information
Certified Virtualization Expert® 6.5
Certification
can lead to better visibility, opportunities, and jobs. In today's increasingly
complex and highly-specialized economy, credentials are everything. Sure, the
student knows that he/she has the skills to do the job, but how do
they convince potential customers and employers? For many career-minded
professionals, certification is often the answer.
For
IT professionals, it is recognized as a valuable way to prove professional
credentials to employers and the general public. For others, the topic can
generate a puzzled response. Why become certified? Isn't a college degree
and/or years of practical hands-on experience enough to establish one's
credentials? Either response of yes or no is correct, depending on your
clientele and colleagues.
Certified Virtualization Expert Objective
The
objective of the Certified Virtualization Expert designation is to confirm upon
the certificate holder the best of breed of virtual infrastructure professional
certifications. The CVE conveys that the individual who achieves the
certification not only has the certificate, but more importantly possesses the
in-depth knowledge related to virtual design, maintenance, and infrastructure
management, is a subject matter expert in the field of virtualization, and that
his/her training is current, relevant, and complete.
Certified Virtualization Expert Candidates
Candidates
for this exam typically work in a Virtual Infrastructure environment where they
are responsible for the implementation and configuration of virtualized servers
using VMware ESXi Server and VMware vCenter Server. Their organizations use
VMware vSphere to reduce the number of physical servers required to run their
business through the virtualization of existing servers, reducing space
requirements and the cost of electricity and cooling, due to the reduction in
the number physical servers.
Candidates
should have six months to a year of experience in monitoring, analyzing, and
planning the use of VMware vSphere in a medium-size to enterprise-size
computing environment.
The
qualified candidate for this exam will have learned all aspects of planning,
architecting, installation, configuration, deployment, analyzing, backing up,
monitoring, and securing a VMware Virtual Infrastructure consisting of ESXi
Servers and the virtual machines created on them. Candidates become qualified
to take this certification exam by attending one of the VMware Ultimate
Bootcamps worldwide.
Why Should Individuals Get Certified?
Certification
can lead to better visibility, opportunities, and jobs. In today's increasingly
complex and highly-specialized economy, credentials are everything. Sure, the
student knows that he/she has the skills to do the job, but how do
they convince potential customers and employers? For many career-minded
professionals, certification is often the answer.
How to Get Your CVE Certification
- Attend an Official Ultimate
Bootcamp prior to taking the test
- Purchase an Exam Voucher
- Pass the CVE exam with a score
of 75% or better
- A certificate suitable for
framing and a letter explaining certification benefits will arrive 8-10
weeks after receiving a passing score on the exam
The
CVE exam is 2 hours in length, consists of 80 questions covering critical
virtualization technologies in use today, and is offered every Friday at the
conclusion of qualifying classes and bootcamps. Each student is given a 2 hour
window to complete it on Friday.
Once
the exam is completed the student learns on the spot if they passed the exam.
"Second Shot Free" policy
A
second chance to pass the exam is only offered to students who take the
exam on Friday of the class. If a student elects to take the exam at a
later date, they get one shot at it.
Certification Price
The cost of the Certified Virtualization Expert® 6.5 certification is $195.00. Testing is available at authorized VMTraining testing centers throughout the world. Click here to purchase a certification exam voucher.