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VCP – VMware vSphere 6: Install, Configure, Manage

In this hands-on training course, you will explore installation, configuration, and management of VMware vSphere, which consists of VMware ESXi and VMware vCenter Server. Troubleshooting guidance, best practices, and lab exercises are interspersed throughout, and upon completion of the course, you can take the examination to become a VMware Certified Professional 6. You will be using ESXi Server 6.0 and vCenter 6.0.

We are a VMware IT Academy; once you have completed your training you will be eligible to take the VCP examination.

Skills You Will Gain

Course Introduction

Software-Defined Data Center:

  • Introduce components of the software-defined data center
  • Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
  • Install and use vSphere Client
  • Overview of ESXi

Creating Virtual Machines:

  • Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
  • Create and work with virtual machines

vCenter Server:

  • Introduce the vCenter Server architecture
  • Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
  • Install and use vSphere Web Client
  • Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
  • Explain the benefits of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility

Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks:

  • Describe, create, and manage standard switches
  • Describe and modify standard switch properties
  • Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms
  • Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches, network connections, and port groups

Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage:

  • Introduce storage protocols and storage device names
  • Discuss ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
  • Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores
  • Introduce VMware Virtual SAN™

Virtual Machine Management:

  • Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
  • Modify and manage virtual machines
  • Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
  • Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
  • Create a vApp
  • Introduce the various types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them

Resource Management and Monitoring:

  • Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
  • Configure and manage resource pools
  • Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
  • Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage
  • Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events
  • Introduce vRealize Operations Manager for data center monitoring and management

vSphere HA and vSphere Fault Tolerance:

  • Explain the vSphere HA architecture
  • Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
  • Use vSphere HA advanced parameters
  • Introduce vSphere Fault Tolerance
  • Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines
  • Introduce vSphere Replication
  • Use vSphere Data Protection to back up and restore data

Host Scalability:

  • Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
  • Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster
  • Work with affinity and anti-affinity rules
  • Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together

vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance:

  • Use vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi patching
  • Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in
  • Create patch baselines
  • Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
  • Scan and remediate hosts

Installing VMware Components:

  • Introduce ESXi installation
  • Describe boot-from-SAN requirements
  • Introduce vCenter Server deployment options
  • Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
  • Discuss installation of vCenter Server Appliance and a vCenter Server instance
Qualification Overview
EXAM CODE TITLE
VCP-6 VMware VCP6 Certification Exam

On completion of the VCP-6 exam you will become a VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 6 (VCP6-DCV)

Additional Support;

>Access to supplementary VMware e-learning content

>Out of class remote lab access

Job Prospects
  • VMware Infrastructure Administrator
  • VMware Infrastructure Consultant
  • Virtualisation Specialist
Progression
  • VCAP – Datacenter Administration
  • VCAP – Datacenter Design
Prerequisite
  • Systems administration experience on Windows or Linux
Schedule

Quarterly – Classroom Based

Cost and Duration

Cost – £1699 £1099 – Inc Exam – Enrolments before 10 Oct 2015 only.
8 weeks – Part Time (Evenings or Weekends)

This course may form part of a Apprenticeship Programme of study*

This course may form part of a 19+ Loans Programme of study*

*eligibility criteria applies

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