Mega Course – VMware vSphere 6.7 – 100% Hands-on Lab Demos

Mega Course – VMware vSphere 6.7 – 100% Hands-on Lab Demos, available at $84.99, has an average rating of 4.85, with 65 lectures, based on 245 reviews, and has 1819 subscribers.

You will learn about You will see how to install and configure ESXi 6.7 according to best practices How to create and configure Standard Virtual Switches How to work with advanced vSwitch settings like Security and Jumbo Frames Understand and configure NFS file shares according to best practices How to create Virtual Machines (VMs) starting with Virtual Hardware, how to install a Guest Operating system, how to add VMware Tools and how to customize the OS according to best practices How to install vCenter Server Appliance and how to do post install configuration tasks such as adding vCenter to Active Directory, how to configure inventory views and how to grant AD members administrator rights over vCenter You will learn how to build Template VMs and how to use Templates to rapidly deploy new Virtual Machine You will learn about the Permission Model in vSphere 6.7 including the purpose of Roles You will see how to connect your ESXi host to iSCSI Shared storage, how to scan for new SAN volumes and how to review those volumes within Web Client How to connect VMs directly to SAN volumes using Raw Device Maps You will learn how to create new VMFS datastores and how to expand VMFS datastores using LUN expansion and LUN spans You will see how to create, monitor and use vCenter Alarms to stay ahead of inventory health, capacity and state issues You will learn about resource delegations using Resource Pools, how to use Reservations, Shares and Limits to ensure that resources are delegated in a predictable manner You will learn how to perform VM migrations, including powered off "Cold" migrations, VMotion hot migrations and Storage VMotion data migrations You will learn how efficiently automate resource management with Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) load balanced clusters You will learn how to deliver 99.99+% VM uptime with VMware High Availability clusters How to deliver 100% VM uptime (zero unplanned downtime) with Fault Tolerance You will learn how keep your ESXi hosts fully patched and updated using VMware Update Manager How to create, configure and migrate to vSphere Distributed Virtual Switches How to assign storage capabilities to a datastore (speed, replication, etc.) and how to set VM storage placement rules to ensure that your VMs always reside on correct storage How to create Storage Load Balanced clusters to balance storage for capacity and I/O bandwidth How to use IOMeter to benchmark VMs for vNetwork and vDisk performance This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is designed and built for people who learn best by doing rather than just talking about IT or System administrators who want to transition into a VMware vSphere operations or administration role or Junior vSphere operators or administrators who want to skill up and take on new tasks or Administrators with any experience using vSphere 5.x or 6.0 / 6.5, who want to see "how it works" using vSphere 6.7 or Any vSphere administrator who needss to see how to perform a task before they do it themselves or Anyone who infrequently performs specific tasks and who wants a quick refresher before moving ahead with the task It is particularly useful for This course is designed and built for people who learn best by doing rather than just talking about IT or System administrators who want to transition into a VMware vSphere operations or administration role or Junior vSphere operators or administrators who want to skill up and take on new tasks or Administrators with any experience using vSphere 5.x or 6.0 / 6.5, who want to see "how it works" using vSphere 6.7 or Any vSphere administrator who needss to see how to perform a task before they do it themselves or Anyone who infrequently performs specific tasks and who wants a quick refresher before moving ahead with the task.

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Summary

Title: Mega Course – VMware vSphere 6.7 – 100% Hands-on Lab Demos

Price: $84.99

Average Rating: 4.85

Number of Lectures: 65

Number of Published Lectures: 65

Number of Curriculum Items: 65

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 65

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

You will see how to install and configure ESXi 6.7 according to best practices
How to create and configure Standard Virtual Switches
How to work with advanced vSwitch settings like Security and Jumbo Frames
Understand and configure NFS file shares according to best practices
How to create Virtual Machines (VMs) starting with Virtual Hardware, how to install a Guest Operating system, how to add VMware Tools and how to customize the OS according to best practices
How to install vCenter Server Appliance and how to do post install configuration tasks such as adding vCenter to Active Directory, how to configure inventory views and how to grant AD members administrator rights over vCenter
You will learn how to build Template VMs and how to use Templates to rapidly deploy new Virtual Machine
You will learn about the Permission Model in vSphere 6.7 including the purpose of Roles
You will see how to connect your ESXi host to iSCSI Shared storage, how to scan for new SAN volumes and how to review those volumes within Web Client
How to connect VMs directly to SAN volumes using Raw Device Maps
You will learn how to create new VMFS datastores and how to expand VMFS datastores using LUN expansion and LUN spans
You will see how to create, monitor and use vCenter Alarms to stay ahead of inventory health, capacity and state issues
You will learn about resource delegations using Resource Pools, how to use Reservations, Shares and Limits to ensure that resources are delegated in a predictable manner
You will learn how to perform VM migrations, including powered off "Cold" migrations, VMotion hot migrations and Storage VMotion data migrations
You will learn how efficiently automate resource management with Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) load balanced clusters
You will learn how to deliver 99.99+% VM uptime with VMware High Availability clusters
How to deliver 100% VM uptime (zero unplanned downtime) with Fault Tolerance
You will learn how keep your ESXi hosts fully patched and updated using VMware Update Manager
How to create, configure and migrate to vSphere Distributed Virtual Switches
How to assign storage capabilities to a datastore (speed, replication, etc.) and how to set VM storage placement rules to ensure that your VMs always reside on correct storage
How to create Storage Load Balanced clusters to balance storage for capacity and I/O bandwidth
How to use IOMeter to benchmark VMs for vNetwork and vDisk performance

Who Should Attend

This course is designed and built for people who learn best by doing rather than just talking about IT
System administrators who want to transition into a VMware vSphere operations or administration role
Junior vSphere operators or administrators who want to skill up and take on new tasks
Administrators with any experience using vSphere 5.x or 6.0 / 6.5, who want to see "how it works" using vSphere 6.7
Any vSphere administrator who needss to see how to perform a task before they do it themselves
Anyone who infrequently performs specific tasks and who wants a quick refresher before moving ahead with the task

Target Audiences

This course is designed and built for people who learn best by doing rather than just talking about IT
System administrators who want to transition into a VMware vSphere operations or administration role
Junior vSphere operators or administrators who want to skill up and take on new tasks
Administrators with any experience using vSphere 5.x or 6.0 / 6.5, who want to see "how it works" using vSphere 6.7
Any vSphere administrator who needss to see how to perform a task before they do it themselves
Anyone who infrequently performs specific tasks and who wants a quick refresher before moving ahead with the task

About This Course

Are you the kind of person who learns best by doing? Do courses with just Power Point voice-overs leave you cold? If so, then this course is for you, because the only Power Points you’ll see are in the introduction and end of class lectures.

In this course, I cover vSphere 6.7 from a build it, configure it, administer it, run it , scale it perspective. 100% of this course is Hands-on Lab demos of an actual VMware vSphere 6.7 installation. In this course, I’ll take you from first-principles (powering on a new server) to a completed, working Compute Load Balancing / Storage Load Balancing / Failure Recovery cluster and everything in between.

I’ve organized this course into Sections– that focus on major aspects of vSphere 6.7. In each Section, lectures are composed of one or more Hands-on Lab demo videos… with voice overs to explain what I am doing and why I am doing it. I also include narrative covering best practices, things to watch out for, issues / concerns, etc. and much more.

There are 6 free-preview lectures (first lecture of Sections 1-6) offering over 70 minutes of free content. I encourage you to watch these lectures to see if this course is for you.

Please note that this course does not provide access to live labs but does include video demonstrations of how to complete tasks using vSphere 6.7.

How to Use This Course

If you are new to vSphere or are wondering how all of the vSphere pieces fit together, start at the beginning and see how it’s done. If you have vSphere experience, jump to the Sectionthat covers exactly what you need to know.

The nice thing about this approach is that you can use it for many purposes:

Learn how to install, configure and administer a complete, working vSphere 6.7 system
Use individual lessons to learn how to do specific tasks (perhaps before you do them at work)
Compare what I’ve done in my environment to your environment to see if there are vSphere features that you could be using (but aren’t)
Is your environment well designed and implemented? Is it configured consistently, is it scalable and is it redundant? All three are critically important and I explain as I go what you can do to achieve these objectives

What Does This Course Cover?

Basics: ESXi, vCenter installation, configuration
Networking: Introductory and advanced vSwitch networking including security, jumbo frames, pNIC teaming and dvSwitches
Virtual Machines: Build, configure, hot clone, rapid deployment, hot-plug vHardware and more
Storage: NFS, iSCSI, VMFS, Raw Device Maps, Profile Driven Storage, Load balanced Storage DRS clusters
Administration: ESXi and vCenter permissions and Infrastructure monitoring with Alarms
Resource Management: Resource Pools, VMotion and Storage VMotion, DRS load balanced clusters
Maximizing VM availability: vSphere HA clusters, Continuously available Fault Tolerant protected VMs

How Will This Course Benefit You?

If you are new to vSphere 6.7

See tasks in the order they are normally done
See how to do each task, step-by-step
Explanations as you go help build knowledge

If you are experienced with legacy versions of vSphere

See how to complete common tasks in vSphere 6.7 using Web interfaces
Learn about new vSphere 6.7 features and capabilities

Are you an experienced vSphere 6.7 administrator

Use this course as a vSphere 6.7 how-to-do-it reference guide
Go directly to advanced topics that you need to learn now
Review / refresh yourself before you perform tasks in production

Your Ultimate vSphere 6.7 Reference Guide

Just go to the section where I cover the material you need to learn, watch how it is done and pay attention to the best practices, tips or pitfalls I explain while I’m doing the task.

My goal in developing this course is to for you to view it as an indispensable how-to-get-it-done reference guide. So sign up and let me know if I’ve succeeded!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome to VMware vSphere 6.7 Boot Camp 100% Hands-on Labs

Lecture 1: Welcome to this Course

Chapter 2: How to Install and Configure the VMware ESXi 6.7 Hypervisor

Lecture 1: Connecting to Our Lab Environment. Powering on and Installing ESXi 6.7

Lecture 2: Powering On our ESXi host. Configure ESXi Host Management Networking using DCUI

Lecture 3: Using the ESXi Shell Console. How to Browse ESXi Host Log, Configuration Files

Lecture 4: How to Update ESXi Host Client Package Using FileZilla

Lecture 5: How to Join ESXi to Active Directory. Working with Local and AD Users

Lecture 6: Updating ESXi Settings. Network Time Protocol, Shell Warnings, Management Agents

Chapter 3: Introduction to Standard Virtual Switches

Lecture 1: Standard vSwitches, VMkernel NICs, Port Groups and their Properties / Settings

Lecture 2: Configuring vSwitch Security, Stand-by pNICs, Beacon Probing and Jumbo Frames

Chapter 4: Connecting ESXi Hosts to and Using NFS Shared Storage

Lecture 1: Configure ESXi Networking for NFS. Connect to and Browse NFS Datastores

Chapter 5: Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines. How to Create Configure and Customize VMs

Lecture 1: Creating the Virtual Hardware Layer of a New Virtual Machine

Lecture 2: Installing Windows Server Into Our New VM

Lecture 3: Installing and Verifying VMware Tools, 3rd Party Software Into our New VM

Lecture 4: More Guest OS Updates. Modifying IE So We Can Download a Modern Browser

Lecture 5: Install Firefox, Adjust VM for Performance, Give Up / Take Ownership of a VM

Lecture 6: Taking and Working with Virtual Machine Snapshots

Lecture 7: Exporting and Importing VMs in Open Virtual Machine (OVF) / Archive (OVA) Format

Chapter 6: Installing and Configuring vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)

Lecture 1: Intro to vCenter Server Appliance. Launching The Installer, Completing Stage 1

Lecture 2: Completing Stage 2 of the vCenter Server Appliance Installer

Lecture 3: Guided Tour Through the vCenter Appliance Management Portal

Lecture 4: How to Patch and Update vCenter Server Appliance

Lecture 5: How to Join the Base vCenter Photon OS to Active Directory

Lecture 6: Setting Up vCenter's Inventory. Grant AD User Permissions, Import an ESXi Host

Chapter 7: Rapid VM Deployment with Virtual Machine Templates and Guest OS Customization

Lecture 1: Creating a VM Template. Deploying a New VM from Template and Customizing It.

Lecture 2: Clone a VM to a Template. Deploying a VM using a Save Guest Customization Spec.

Chapter 8: Virtual Hardware – Hot Adding and Hot Growing Virtual Disks

Lecture 1: Hot Adding and Hot Growing Secondary Virtual Disks (vDisks)

Lecture 2: How to Hot Grow a System Volume (C Drive) on a Windows Server VM

Chapter 9: Hot-Adding Additional vCPU Sockets, vMemory into a Running VM

Lecture 1: Explore pCPU and vCPU Properties using the Free CPU-Z Tool

Lecture 2: How to Hot-Add Additional vCPU Sockets and More vMemory to a Running VM

Chapter 10: Working with vCenter Permissions

Lecture 1: Reviewing, Updating and Creating LocalOS and Domain Based Permission Assignments

Lecture 2: Creating, Working With and Testing Custom Roles

Chapter 11: Connecting ESXi Hosts to iSCSI Shared Storage

Lecture 1: Configuring ESXi Software iSCSI Initiator, Scanning the SAN, Reviewing Volumes

Chapter 12: Connecting VMs Directly to SAN Volumes Using Raw Device Maps

Lecture 1: Add a Raw Device Map to a VM. Initialize, Format, Use and Safely Delete the RDM

Chapter 13: VMware File System v6 – Creating, Managing Capacity and Managing Paths

Lecture 1: How to Grow a VMFS Partition and Filesystem Into a Newly Expanded Storage Volume

Lecture 2: How to Grow a VMFS by Adding Additional Storage Volumes – Creating a LUN Span

Lecture 3: Upgrading a VMFS Path Selection Policy to Round Robin Active/Active Multipathing

Chapter 14: Monitoring vCenter Infrastructure with vCenter Alarms

Lecture 1: Installing an SNMP Receiver, Configuring vCenter, Creating a Custom vCPU Alarm

Lecture 2: Update Local Windows Firewall to Allow Inbound SNMP Using UDP on Port 162

Lecture 3: Launch a vCPU Intensive Application, Monitor VM Performance and Look for Traps

Chapter 15: Compute Resouce Management and Delegation with Resource Pools

Lecture 1: Using Custom Limits to Reduce vCPU Performance Inside a Virtual Machine

Lecture 2: Testing VM Resource Settings and Performance Within a Resource Pool

Lecture 3: Testing VM Resource Settings and Performance Across Resource Pools

Chapter 16: VM Cold Migration, Hot VMotion Migration and Storage VMotion Migration

Lecture 1: Virtual Cold Migration. Preparing for and Troubleshooting VMotion Migration

Lecture 2: VMotion, Stress Test VMotion, Combined Computer+vDisk Storage VMotion Migration

Chapter 17: Distributed Rescource Scheduling (Compute Resource) Load Balancing Clusters

Lecture 1: Create a New Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) Cluster, add ESXi Hosts

Lecture 2: Manually Unbalance the Cluster, Check for Recommendations, Rebalance the Cluster

Chapter 18: Deliver 99.99% VM Uptime with High Availability Failure Recovery Clusters

Lecture 1: Enable vSphere High Availability, Configure Failures and Responses Policies

Lecture 2: vSphere HA: Update Proactive HA, Admission Control, Heartbeat Datastore Policies

Lecture 3: Customize VM Restart Priority, Simulate a Host Failure and Monitor VM Recovery

Chapter 19: Deliver 100% VM Uptime (Zero Unplanned Downtime) with vSphere HA Fault Tolerance

Lecture 1: Build Your Fault Tolerance Logging Network. Enable VM Fault Tolerance

Lecture 2: Test Fault Tolerance Protected VM and Verify VM Continued Operation

Chapter 20: Upgrading ESXi Hosts, Updating ESXi Hosts and VMs with VMware Update Manager

Lecture 1: Create a New ESXi 6.0 Host (to later upgrade with VMware Update Manager)

Lecture 2: Configure VMware Update Manager, Import Host Upgrade Image, Upgrade Host to 6.7

Lecture 3: Create and ESXi Host Update Patch Baseline, Test Host Compliance and Update ESXi

Lecture 4: Create a VM Upgrade Patch Baseline. Use it to Upgrade VM vHardware, VMware Tools

Chapter 21: Introduction to vNetwork Distributed Switches

Lecture 1: Create a New vNetwork Distributed Switch. Configure dvUplinks and VM Port Groups

Lecture 2: Create and Migrate dvSwitch VMKnics. Migrate Over VM Networking, VMkernel NICs

Lecture 3: Migrating pNICs to Our dvSwitch. Backup/Recover a dvSwitch. Create Port Shadows

Chapter 22: Using Storage Profiles to Declare Datastore Capabilities, Enforce VM Placement

Lecture 1: How to Configure and Implement Profile Driven Storage Using Tag Based Storage

Lecture 2: Create VM Storage Policies. Storage VMotion a VM to Policy Compliant Storage

Chapter 23: Datastore Clusters and Storage Distributed Load Balanced (SDRS) Clusters

Lecture 1: How to Create, Configure and Load Balance Storage with Storage DRS

Chapter 24: Measuring Virtual Machine Disk I/O and Network I/O Performance Using IOMeter

Lecture 1: Chapter Objectives. Place VMs on 2 ESXi Hosts. Install IOMeter on Both VMs

Lecture 2: Create and Review a VM Based Disk I/O Workload Using IOMeter

Lecture 3: Perform an Intra-VM Network Throughput Test

Lecture 4: Perform an Inter-VM (VM to VM) Network Throughput Test using IOMeter

Instructors

Larry Karnis (Teaching VMware vSphere, ESXi and vCenter for 18+ years)
VMware vSphere Consultant / Trainer, VCP vSphere 2, 3, 4, 5

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2 stars: 6 votes
3 stars: 18 votes
4 stars: 77 votes
5 stars: 141 votes

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