Virtualization
- Understanding the Need of Virtualization.
- Introduction to VMware Virtualization and vSphere components
- Learn about Hypervisor
- Know about Hyper-V and Nutanix
- Understanding Virtualization and Cloud
VMware vSphere vCenter
- Install and Configure VMware vSphere 8.0 and 7.0
- Upgrade vSphere vCenter 7.0 to 8.0
- Monitoring vCenter
- Understand, Deploy and Configure vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA).
- vCenter Patch management
- Resource Management and Monitoring.
- Learn about vCenter VAMI page 5480
- Understand functions and benefits of a vSphere DRS cluster.
- Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster.
- Understand vSphere HA architecture.
- Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster.
- Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
- Understanding Update manager VUM and Lifecycle manager (LCM)
- VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager to apply ESXI patches and ESXI upgrade
- Understand Difference between vSphere 7.0 and 8.0
- Learn about vCenter features
- VMware Virtual Machine Backup solutions and Restore
- Disaster management
- Know about HCI and vSAN
Migrations
- Manage vSphere vMotion migrations
- manage vSphere SvMotion Storage migrations
- vMotion Conditions and Prerequisites
- P2V and V2V Migrations
- Cluster to Cluster VM Migrations
- vCenter to vCenter Migrations
- Understand Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
- Troubleshoot VM Migration issues
Manage ESXI Host
- ESXI host Hardware Compatibility check
- ESXI Host build process
- Installing and Configuring ESXI
- ESXI Host commissioning and Decommissioning
- Upgrade ESXI host 7.0 to 8.0
- Upgrade ESXI thru Command line
- ESXI build patch Updates
- Add ESXI host to a cluster
- Configure Management Network of ESXI
- Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks in ESXI
- Create and use Host alarms to report certain conditions or events.
- Understand ESXI host Server Inventory
- Understand Features available in 7.0 and 8.0
- ESXI Host monitoring (monitor CPU,Memory,Disk,Network utilization)
- Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
- Comparison between ESXI 7.0 and 8.0
- Learn about ESXI Issues and Troubleshooting
- Learn ESXi Commands and TOP Commands
- Learn about ESXI Logs
- Understanding ESXI Services
- Understanding Host Maintenance mode
- Know the Host Task and Events
Manage Virtual Machine
- Create Virtual Machine
- Installing Guest OS in VMs.
- Understand and Install VMware Tools.
- Create and Manage Virtual Machines in ESXi.
- Know the CPU and Memory Hot Plug
- Know the VM Disk files.
- VM Resource reconfiguration Process (VM Disk add, resize, Memory, CPU).
- Customize a new Virtual Machine using customization specification.
- Understand and Manage Virtual Machine Migration.
- Create a template and deploy a virtual machine from a template
- Clone a virtual machine
- Register and Unregister VM
- Understand and Manage VM Snapshot.
- Take snapshots of a virtual machine and Revert to a snapshot
- Create a virtual machine alarm and trigger virtual machine alarms
- Understanding the VM events and Tasks
- Virtual Machine monitoring
- Virtual Machine Troubleshooting (VM hung issue, VM performance issue, RDP issue)
- Understand vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT)
- Understand Resource pool
- VM inventory and RVTools report Generation
Storage
- Create and Manage VMFS and NFS datastores.
- Extend VMFS Datastore
- Understanding Shared storage
- Understanding Thick and Thin Provision
- Understanding Data Center Storage
- Understanding ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel storage.
- Know about LUN and Datastore
Networking
- Manage Standard switch and Distributed Switch
- Understand Distributed Switch features
- Understand and Configure Port groups
- Assign network
- Know the vSphere Virtual Switch
- VLANs in VMware Infrastructure
- Managing the Virtual Network
- Understand Network vMotion
- Know the Virtual Network Security
Server Hardware
- Know the Server Hardware Components
- Know the Server Hardware issues
- Hardware Remote management Controllers (HP ILO, DELL DRAC)
- Learn about Types of server Hardware (Tower Server, Rack server, Blade server) using in Data Centers
- Faulty Hardware components replacements
- Learn about BIOS and POST
- Physical server Bios and Firmware update
- Learn RAID and Configure RAID
- Know about Cisco UCS Manager and Blade server
Windows Server and DataCenter
- Learn about Microsoft Windows Servers
- Installing and Configuring Windows Servers
- Windows server upgrade
- Active Directory, DNS,DHCP,AD user Management
- Group policy
- Windows server Patch management
- Know about Application, Database and Web Servers
- Overview of Datacenter
- Know about Datacenter Architecture
- Datacenter Devices
- Datacenter Storage and Backup
- Datacenter Capacity Planning
- Datacenter Networking
- Datacenter Administrator responsibilities
- Datacenter Hardware replacements
ITIL Process and Management
- Incident and Request Tickets handling
- Change Request (CR) and Emergency Change request
- Problem Management (Reactive and Proactive problem ticket)
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA) preparation
- Know about tickets SLA
- Tasks and Change Task
Know about CMDB and Vendors Management
- Learn SOP Creation
- Capacity Planning and Feasibility checks
- Activities prechecks and Post checks
- Plan Of Action (POA) creation for Scheduled activities
- Know the Microsoft Windows servers versions and editions
- Know the Products of VMware
- Know the Hardware vendors
- Log case with Vendors such as DELL,HP,CISCO,VMware Broadcom
Career Guidance
- Know about VMware opening in MNC
- VMware Administrator Job Roles, Responsibilities and Day today activities
- Job Guidance and Job search
- Interview Preparation
- Mock Interview
- Microsoft Windows server, VMware and Cloud Certification guidance
- Discussion about Salary hike in VMware administration