Summary & Schedule

VMware VSphere: Fast Track V6 Course Information

Course Length: 5 Days

This intensive, extended-hours course combines instructor training with hands-on labs to focus on how to install, configure, manage, and troubleshoot VMware vSphere® 6, including VMware ESXi™ 6 and VMware vCenter Server™ 6. This course combines the content of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course with training in the troubleshooting skills needed for maintaining highly available and scalable vSphere environments. Students gain practical experience with these concepts through the completion of hands-on labs.

Completion of this course satisfies the course requirement for the VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV) certification.

Students who complete this course can enroll in more advanced vSphere courses. For advanced course options, go to www.vmware.com/education.


Course Objectives

  • Deploy an ESXi host and create virtual machines
  • Deploy a vCenter Server instance or VMware vCenter™ Server Appliance™
  • Configure and manage the vSphere infrastructure with VMware vSphere® Client™ and VMware vSphere® Web Client
  • Configure vSphere standard and distributed switches
  • Describe and use a content library
  • Migrate virtual machines and storage with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
  • Use VMware vRealize™ Operations Manager™ to identify and solve issues through analytics and alerts
  • Manage VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
  • Use VMware vSphere® Replication™ and VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ to replicate virtual machines and perform data recovery
  • Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters to improve host scalability
  • Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches
  • Perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, vCenter Server, virtual networking, virtual storage, and other vSphere 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 or VCA-DCV certification

Intended Audience

New and experienced system administrators, systems engineers, and system integrators seeking superior vSphere skills with minimal time away from the office

Outline

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