C O U R S E D A T A S HE E T

VMware vSphere:
Advanced Administration
Workshop

Course Overview
This five-day course provides hands-on training to equip students with a range of skills: from performing routine VMware
vSphere® 7 administrative tasks to complex vSphere operations and configurations. Through lab-based activities,
students are immersed in real-life situations faced by VMBeans, a fictitious company. These situations expose students to
real-life scenarios faced by companies that are building and scaling their virtual infrastructure.
This course uses scenario-based lab exercises and does not provide guided step-by-step instructions. To complete the
scenario-based lab exercises, you are required to analyze the task, research, and deduce the required solution.
References and suggested documentation are provided.
Approximately 90% of the class is application-focused and taught through labs. The course aligns fully with the VMware
Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization Deploy exam objectives.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Enable cluster features and configure vSphere storage and networking
• Use host profiles to automate host configurations
• Use Cluster Quickstart to create a VMware vSAN™ enabled cluster
• Configure the VMware vCenter Server® identity provider
• Troubleshoot host connectivity and storage connectivity
• Perform lifecycle operations on vSphere components
• Implement security hardening guidelines to vSphere and virtual machines
Target Audience
• System administrators
• System engineer
Prerequisites
This course requires the following prerequisites:

• Completion of VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7] course

• VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) certification
• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

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Course Delivery Options Product Alignment

• Classroom • VMware ESXi™ 7
• Live Online • VMware vCenter Server 7
• Onsite

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Course Modules 5 Lifecycle Management

1 Course Introduction • Troubleshoot upgrade-blocking issues
• Introductions and course logistics • Increase logging levels on vCenter Server
• Course objectives • Configure a VMware Tools™ shared repository
• Introduction to fictitious company: VMBeans • Upgrade vCenter Server
• Upgrade ESXi
2 Creating and Configuring Management Clusters • Upgrade VMware Tools
• Enable cluster features that help to improve • Upgrade Virtual Machine Compatibility
resource allocation and availability of virtual • Work with VM placement rules
machines
• Use standard virtual switches to create networking 6 vSphere Security
in a cluster • Manage advanced virtual machine configurations
• Recognize when to use VMware vSphere® • Configure a key management server
vMotion® • Encrypt virtual machines using vSphere VM
• Recognize requirements for using iSCSI encryption
• Identify the purpose of iSCSI multipathing • Secure VMs in transit with encrypted vSphere
• Select the appropriate vSphere storage types to vMotion
meet requirements • Identify and implement different ESXi CPU
• Recognize when to configure ESXi NTP support scheduler options
• Recognize ESXi user account best practices • Apply security hardening guidelines to ESXi hosts
• Configure ESXi host settings • Replace vCenter Server certificates with trusted
• Use host profiles appropriately CA-signed certificates
• Deploy a new vCenter Server instance
3 Creating and Configuring Productions Clusters • Reconfigure the primary network identifier for
• Use Cluster Quickstart to create a vSAN enabled vCenter Server
cluster
• Configure advanced vSphere HA settings
• Recognize the benefits of Active Directory
Federation Services (ADFS)
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• Configure the vCenter Server identity provider If you have questions or need help registering for this
• Assign specific permissions and roles to ADFS users course, click here.
• Recognize how Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
benefits VM mobility
• Perform a Cross vCenter Server Migration
• Use content libraries to share virtual machine
templates between sites

4 Troubleshooting vSphere and Backing Up

Configurations
• Troubleshoot ESXi connectivity issues
• Troubleshoot iSCSI storage issues
• Troubleshoot vSphere cluster resources
• Troubleshoot VMware PowerCLI™ issues
• Back up vCenter Server

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