Mega Course - vSphere 7.0 Boot Camp 100% Lab Demos w. Ebook

Learn how to install, configure, administer VMware vSphere 7 with 14+hrs, with 73 hands-on lab demo videos + ebook

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Feb 2022
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What you will learn

Install and configure ESXi 7.0 from scratch

Install and configure vCenter Server appliance 7.0 from scratch

Create and configure basic and advanced Standard and Distributed vSwitches

Create, size, deploy and mange Virtual Machines including Hot Plug vHardware

Connect to and use NFS and iSCSI Shared Storage

Work with VMFS volumes including manage capacity and review / set multipathing

Design and implement VMotion and Load Balanced DRS Clusters

Provide 99.99+% VM uptime with VMware High Availability Clusters

Provide 100% VM uptime with VMware Fault Tolerance

Patch and Update ESXi hosts with VMware Lifecycle Manager

Description

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 offers 14+ hours and 73 videos of lab task demonstrations - the equivalent of attending a 5-day vSphere 7.0 Boot Camp course at a fraction of the price. I'll show you how to build, configure, administer, run, scale vSphere 7.0. I'll also show you how to deliver better than 99.99% service availability.

This course consists exclusively of 100% Hands-on Lab demos videos of a real VMware vSphere 7.0 installation. 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 the most important vSphere 7.0 features. Each Section has one or more step-by-step Hands-on Lab demo video(s)... with voice overs to explain what I am doing and why I am doing it. I cover best practices, things to watch out for, issues / concerns, bugs in VMware's software 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. You also get our free sample vSphere 7.0 Boot Camp Lab PDF ebook.


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 are more experienced, jump to the Section that 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 7.0 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

  • Review your installation. Is it well designed and well implemented? Is it configured consistently? Is it scaleable? Is it redundant? 
    These are critically important questions. Use this course to get the answers

What Does This Course Cover?

   Basics: ESXi, vCenter installation, configuration
   NetworkingIntroductory, advanced vSwitch networking, jumbo frames, pNIC teaming, dvSwitches
   Virtual Machines: Build, configure, right size, deploy, VMware Tools snapshot, hot-plug vHardware
   Rapid VM Deployment: Guest OS Customization, cold clone, hot clone, rapidly deploy
   Storage: NFS, iSCSI, VMFS, Multipathing, Capacity Mgt, Raw Device Maps, Content Libraries
   Administration: ESXi and vCenter permissions. Infrastructure monitoring with Alarms
   Compute Resource Management: Resource Pools, Cold Migrate, VMotion, Storage VMotion, DRS clusters
   Maximize VM availability: vSphere High Availability clusters, Fault Tolerant protected VMs


How Will This Course Benefit You? 


If you are new to vSphere 7.0

  • 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 73 tasks in vSphere 7.0 using VMware's updated interface

  • Learn about new vSphere 7.0 features and capabilities

Are you an experienced vSphere 7.0 administrator

  • Use this course as a vSphere 7.0 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 7.0 How-to Reference Guide

Go to any section whenever you need to review or brush up on your skills on how to get the job done. See exactly, step-by-step how to complete each task. Note the best practices, tips or pitfalls I explain while I'm taking you through each 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!

Caveats

This course includes all of the lab recordings of our Mega Course - VMware vSphere 7.0 Boot Camp Parts 1, 2 and 3. If you have already purchased those courses, you do not need to purchase this course.

This course does not include access to live labs.

Content

Introduction

Introduction

How to Install and Configure ESXi 7.0

How to Connect to and Access ESXLab's Remote Access Lab Servers
Powering on Your ESXi Host and Launching the ESXi 7.0 Installer
Perform an Initial Install of ESXi 7.0
Set ESXi Management Network Properties with the Direct Console User Interface
How to Test Management Network Settings. Command Line Login
Configuring ESXi for Local User and Active Directory User Access and Permissions
How to Restart Management Agents. Review Logs / Configs with the Hosts URL

ESXi 7.0 Introductory and Advanced Virtual and Physical Networking

ESXi Networking. Create vSwitches, Port Groups, VMkernel NICs, pNIC Teams
Advanced vNetworking - vSwitch Security, pNIC Teaming, Jumbo Frames

Connecting to and Using NAS Shared Storage

Connecting to and Using NAS Shared Storage

Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines

How to Import and How to Build a Virtual Machine
Customizing the Hardware of Our New Windows 10 Virtual Machine
How to Give Up and Take Back Ownership of a VM. Working with VM Snapshots
Exporting a VM in OVF / OVA Format. Importing an OVF / OVA Format VM into ESXi 7

How to Install, Configure and Administer vCenter Server Appliance

Launch the vCenter Server Appliance Installer and Completing Stage 1
Completing Stage 2 of the vCenter Server Appliance Installer
Use Virtual Appliance Management Interface (VAMI) to Perform Post Install Tasks
Joining vCenter Server Appliance's Base Linux (Photon) OS to Active Directory
Importing an ESXi host into vCenter. A quick tour of vCenter

Rapid Virtual Machine Deployment with VM Templates and Clones

How to Prepare a VM for Use as a Template
How to Consistently Deploy New VMs using Guest OS Customization Specifications
Working with Guest OS Customization Specifications
How to Clone an Existing Virtual Machine into a Template
How to Make Ad Hoc VM Copies with VM Cloning

Template, Media and File Management with Content Libraries

How to Create Content Libraries. How to Upload and Deploy VM Templates from a CL

Working with Virtual Machine Hot Plug vHardware

How to Hot Add vDisks to a Running VMs
How to Hot Grow vDisks including System Disks in a powered on VM
How to Hot Plug New vCPU Sockets and vRAM into a running VM
Why and How to Safely Upgrade Virtual Hardware in a Virtual Machine

Working With ESXi and vCenter Permissions

Add vCenter Administrator Permissions to the vCenter root User
Grant Limited vCenter Access to Active Directory Users
Creating and Working with Custom Roles

Connecting ESXi to Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage

Enable and Configure the ESXi 7.0 iSCSI Software Initiator
Assign Custom Names to SAN Volumes

Direct VM to SAN LUN Access with Raw Device Maps

How to Create, Initialize, Partition, Format and Properly Delete a Raw Device

VMFS - VMware's Cluster File System

How to Upgrade a VMFS 5 Filesystem to VMFS 6
How to Create a VMFS 6 Datastore
How to In Place Grow a VMFS 6 File System into a Newly Expanded SAN Volume
How to Grow a VMFS Datastore Using a LUN Span
Change a Datastore's Path Selection Policy to Maximize Storage Network Bandwidth

Infrastructure Monitoring with vCenter Alarms

Install a Simple SNMP Trap Receiver. Configure vCenter to Send Traps
Create and Test a Virtual Machine High Compute Resource Use Alarm
Open Up Windows Firewall to Allow Inbound SNMP Traffic (UDP on Port 162)
Create High VM vCompute Load and View Traps In Our Windows Trap Receiver

Compute Resource Management with Resource Pools

Create, Configure and Test a New Resource Pool with Artificial Limits
Prioritizing VM Compute Resource Delegations with Shares
Prioritizing Compute Resource Delegations in Bulk with Resource Pools

VM Cold Migration, VMotion Migration and Storage Migration

Preparing for VM Migration. Powering on Host esx2 and Adding it to vCenter
Cold Migrate a Powered Off VM to a New Datastore
Hot VMotion Migrate the Running Compute State of a VM to a New ESXi 7 Host
Perform a Combined VM VMotion and Storage VMotion

Distributed Resource Scheduling Load Balanced Clusters

How To Create, Configure a Distributed Resource Scheduling Load Balanced Cluster
Unbalancing the DRS Cluster and Watching DRS Automatically Rebalance the Cluster
Enable and Configure DRS Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC)

Rapid VM Failure Recovery with High Availability Clusters

Enable and Configure vSphere High Availability Cluster Host Failures & Responses
Understand and Configure HA Admission Control Settings
Understand and Configure Heartbeat Datastores
How to Set Virtual Machine Custom Restart Priorities and Properties
Simulate an ESXi Host Failure and Watch HA Place and Restart Impacted VMs

Patch Management with VMware Lifecycle Manager

Configure and Update VMware Lifecycle Manager
Create a Host Extenstion Patch Baseline and Attach it to an ESXi Host
Use VLM to Remediate the ESXi Host to Install All Selected Patches in a baseline

Introduction to vNetwork Distributed Virtual Switches

Creating and Configuring a new dvSwitch. Adding an ESXi host to a dvSwitch
Migrating VM vNICs and ESXi host VMkernel NICs to our dvSwitch
Consolidating vNetworking from Standard vSwitches to dvSwitches
Adding a Second ESXi 7 Host to our dvSwitch. dvSwitch Backup and Recovery

Managing vSphere Scalability and Performance

Measuring Virtual Machine Disk I/O Performance Using IOMeter
Measuring Virtual Machine Network I/O Performance Using IOMeter

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Reviews

Robert
May 26, 2022
Very useful information and found the pace was good for me as well. And definitely applicable to the "real world".
Randall
May 12, 2022
Easy to understand. Wish there was a transcript like Pluralsight offers I would like to see the following topics covered: VM Versioning Host Profiles Auto Deploy VM Replication (for Templates) vCenter Upgrade (not just patching) vCenter Linked Mode Larry mentioned a topic was included Advanced Courses; I could not find them.

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