Description

This training course will give you the skills you need to build a highly available VMware vSphere 8 infrastructure. You'll discover how to deploy VMware VM clusters and guarantee continuous VM uptime with VMware Multiprocessor Fault Tolerance.

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

For system administrators and architects with experience of VMware vSphere who want to deepen their knowledge.

Prerequisites

Training objectives

Implement a high-availability VMware vSphere 8 infrastructure

Guarantee continuous availability of virtual machines with VMware Fault Tolerance

Optimize VM file distribution to avoid disk bottlenecks

Configure an advanced VMware DRS cluster

Reduce the energy consumption of your VMware infrastructure with Distributed Power Management

Deploy ESXi servers via PXE with VMware Auto Deploy

Training program

• Continuity of service
  • Network and storage redundancy.
  • High availability: maintenance of ESXi and storage, virtual machines and vCenter.
  • Disaster Recovery Plan .
• Setting up clusters
  • Supported VM cluster architectures.
  • Configuration of a VMware cluster.
  • Practical work Configuration of VM clusters.
• Clusters VMware High Availability
  • Architecture and operation of vSphere HA.
  • VMware HA cluster: configuration, monitoring.
  • Management and calculation of slot sizes.
  • Managing admission policies.
  • Practical work Using the HA function in a VM cluster.
  • Configuring VMware HA Admission Control Policies.
  • Monitoring VMware HA.
• VMware Fault Tolerance
  • Presentation, implementation and configuration.
  • Best practices.
  • Practical work Implementation of Fault Tolerance technology for the protection of VMs .
• Storage resource management
  • How the different virtual hard disk formats work.
  • Dynamic management of VMFS volumes.
  • The vStorage API for Array Integration primitives.
  • Setting up storage profiles for VMs.
  • Presentation and creation of Datastore clusters.
  • Setting up and configuring VMware Storage DRS.
  • Practical work Implementation of VMware Storage DRS.
• Clusters VMware DRS
  • Detailed operation of VMware DRS.
  • Setting up and configuring a DRS cluster.
  • Configuring VM affinity rules, DRS groups and DPM.
  • Practical work Optimization of load and energy consumption via vSphere DRS.
• VMware Enhanced VMotion
  • VMotion between vCenter servers.
  • VMotion between virtual switches.
  • Long distance VMotion.
  • Practical work Using Enhanced VMotion .
• Deploying ESXi servers
  • VMware Host Profile: Maintaining ESXi Compliance.
  • Creating Custom ESXi Installation Packages with Image Builder.
  • VMware Auto Deploy: Automated Deployment of ESXi.
  • Practical work Deployment of ESX/ESXi servers with Host profiles and Auto Deploy.