This accelerated VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6.7] course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere® management skills in just 5 days. You'll get your own dedicated server with 24-hour lab access and official course material - including hands-on lab training.
This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organisation of any size using vSphere 6.7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 6.7 and VMware vCenter Server® 6.7.
Using Firebrand's unique Lecture | Lab | Review technique, you'll develop the advanced skills you need to manage and maintain a highly available and truly scalable virtual infrastructure.
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On this course you'll learn how to Install, configure and manage vSphere 6.7. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect.
You'll also learn how to:
- Install and configure ESXi hosts
- Deploy, configure and manage VMware vCenter® Server
- Create virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
- Describe, configure, create and manage storage technologies supported by vSphere
- Create virtual machines, templates, clones, snapshots and a content library
- Migrate and encrypt virtual machines, protect and recover virtual machine data
- Create virtual networks and enable distributed switch features
- Apply patches and perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines
If you're a system administrator or system engineer looking to master vSphere infrastructure, this course is ideal for you.
On this accelerated course, you'll be prepared for and sit the vSphere 6.7 Foundations Exam 2019 and Professional vSphere 6.7 Exam 2019 to gain your VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2019 (VCP-DCV 2019) certification. This is covered by your Certification Guarantee: pass first time or train again free.
This VMware training is delivered in cooperation with HPE Education Services, a global VMware Authorised Training Center (VATC).
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Seven reasons why you should sit your course with Firebrand Training
- You'll be certified in just 5 days. With us, you’ll be trained in record time
- Our course is all-inclusive. A one-off fee covers all course materials, exams, accommodation and meals. No hidden extras
- Pass first time or train again for free. This is our guarantee. We’re confident you’ll pass your course first time. But if not, come back within a year and only pay for accommodation, exams and incidental costs
- You’ll learn more. A day with a traditional training provider generally runs from 9am – 5pm, with a nice long break for lunch. With Firebrand Training you’ll get at least 12 hours/day quality learning time, with your instructor
- You’ll learn faster. Chances are, you’ll have a different learning style to those around you. We combine visual, auditory and tactile styles to deliver the material in a way that ensures you will learn faster and more easily
- You’ll be studying with the best. We’ve been named in Training Industry’s “Top 20 IT Training Companies of the Year” every year since 2010. As well as winning many more awards, we’ve trained and certified 72,589 professionals, and we’re partners with all of the big names in the business
- You'll do more than study Firebrand's courseware. We use practical exercises to make sure you can apply your new knowledge to the work environment. Our instructors use demonstrations and real-world experience to keep the day interesting and engaging
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Get totally immersed in vSphere and focus on the goals of learning and taking the exams to become VCP DCV 2019 certified.
You, and every other student, will be assigned your own dedicated server with 24-hour access during the course. You'll perform all labs on exactly the same hardware you find in a real data centre. This means you can 'get your hands dirty', by revisiting labs and working at your own pace, without time constraints or distractions.
You'll benefit from official e-courseware to fulfill VMware's official eligibility requirements to become accredited.
Sit both exams during the course and return to the office certified. Or defer your exams and take exam vouchers instead.
Other accelerated training providers rely heavily on lecture and independent self-testing and study.
Effective technical instruction must be highly varied and interactive to keep attention levels high, promote camaraderie and teamwork between the students and instructor, and solidify knowledge through hands-on learning.
Firebrand Training provides instruction to meet every learning need:
- Intensive group instruction
- One-on-one instruction attention
- Hands-on labs
- Lab partner and group exercises
- Question and answer drills
- Independent study
This information has been provided as a helpful tool for candidates considering training. Courses that include certification come with a Certification Guarantee. Pass first time or train again for free (just pay for accommodation, exams and incidental costs). We do not make any guarantees about personal successes or benefits of obtaining certification. Benefits of certification determined through studies do not guarantee any particular personal successes.
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Module 1: Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Describe the content of this course
- Gain a complete picture of the VMware certification system
- Familiarise yourself with the benefits of the VMware Education Learning Zone
- Identify additional resource
Module 2: Introduction to vSphere and the Software Defined Data Center
- Describe how vSphere fits into the software
- defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
- Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage
- Use vSphere Client to access and manage your vCenter Server system and ESXi host
- Compare virtual machine hardware version 14 to other versions
- Identify the virtual network adapters, and describe the enhanced VMXNET3
- Compare the types of virtual disk provisioning
- Install and configure ESXi host settings
- Identify the advantages of ESXi Quick Boot
- Module 3: Creating Virtual Machines
- Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine
- Explain the importance of VMware Tools™
- Describe how to import a virtual appliance OVF template
Module 3: Creating Virtual Machines
- Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine
- Explain the importance of VMware Tools™
- Describe how to import a virtual appliance OVF template
Module 4: vCenter Server
- Describe the vCenter Server architecture
- Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
- Access and configure vCenter Server Appliance
- Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory
- Add data center, organisational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server
- Create custom inventory tags
- Describe the rules for applying permissions
- Create a custom role in vCenter Server
- Create a vCenter Server Appliance backup schedule
- Restore vCenter Server Appliance from a backup
- Monitor vCenter Server Appliance
Module 5: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
- Describe, create, and manage standard switches
- Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping and load-balancing policies
- Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches
- Describe the virtual switch connection types
- Describe the new TCP/IP stack architecture
- Use VLANs with standard switches
- Module 6: Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
- Identify storage protocols and storage device types
- Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS and NFS datastores
- Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Identify the advantages of VMware vSAN™
Module 6: Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
- Identify storage protocols and storage device types
- Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS and NFS datastores
- Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Identify the advantages of VMware vSAN™
Module 7: Virtual Machine Management
- Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
- Modify and manage virtual machines
- Create an instant clone of a virtual machine
- Identify the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them
- Add a hot-pluggable device
- Dynamically increase the size of a virtual disk
- Use customisation specification files to customise a new virtual machine
- Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
Module 8: Resource Management and Monitoring
- Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualised environment
- Describe what over commitment of a resource means
- Identify additional technologies that improve memory usage
- Configure and manage resource pools
- Describe methods for optimising CPU and memory usage
- Use various tools to monitor resource usage
- Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events
Module 9: vSphere HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance, and Protecting Data
- Explain the vSphere HA architecture
- Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
- Use vSphere HA advanced parameters
- Enforce infrastructural or intra-app dependencies during failover
- Describe vSphere HA heartbeat networks and datastore heartbeats
- Examine the features and functions of vSphere Fault Tolerance
- Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines
- Support vSphere Fault Tolerance interoperability with vSAN
- Examine enhanced consolidation of vSphere Fault Tolerance virtual machines
- Examine the features and functions of vSphere Replication
Module 10: vSphere DRS
- Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
- Create a vSphere DRS cluster
- View information about a vSphere DRS cluster
- Configure virtual machine affinity, DRS groups, and VM-host affinity rules
- Remove a host from a vSphere DRS cluster
Module 11: Network Scalability
- Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
- Explain distributed features such as port mirroring, LACP, QoS tagging, and NetFlow
- Configuring port mirroring on a distributed switch
Module 12: vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance
- Describe the architecture, components, and capabilities of vSphere Update Manager
- Use vSphere Update Manager to manage the patching of ESXi, virtual machines, and vApps
- Examine the features and functions of vSphere Update Manager EAM integration
- Integrate vSphere Update Manager with vSphere DRS
- Describe and use host profiles
Module 13: Storage Scalability
- Explain VMware vSphere® Storage APIs - Array Integration, VMware vSphere® API for Storage Awareness™, and vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering
- Configure and assign virtual machine storage policies
- Configure vSphere Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control Module 14: Securing Virtual Machines
Module 14: Securing Virtual Machines
- Set up encryption in your vSphere environment
- Encrypt virtual machines
- Encrypt core dumps
- Enable encrypted vSphere vMotion
- Describe support for virtual machine security features, such as UEFI secure boot, vTPM, and virtualisation-based security
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You'll sit the following exams at the Firebrand Training Centre, covered by your Certification Guarantee:
- VMware vSphere 6.7 Foundations Exam 2019 (2V0-01.19)
- Exam Sections:
- Section 1 - Install and Configure vCenter Server 6.x and ESXi 6.x Hosts
- Section 2 - Configure and Manage vSphere 6.x Networking
- Section 3 - Configure and Manage vSphere 6.x Storage
- Section 4 - Deploy and Administer Virtual Machines and vApps
- Section 5 - Establish and Maintain Availability and Resource Management Features
- Section 6 - Perform Basic Troubleshooting of a vSphere 6.x Implementation
- Section 7 - Perform Basic Monitoring of vSphere Implementation
- Duration: 105 minutes
- Number of questions: 65
- Passing score: 300
- Exam languages: English
- Format: Single and multiple choice
- Professional vSphere 6.7 Exam 2019 (2V0-21.19)
- Exam Sections:
- Section 1 – Architecture and Technologies
- Section 2 – Products and Solutions
- Section 3 – Planning and Designing
- Section 4 – Installing, Configuring, and Setup
- Section 5 – Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
- Section 6 – Troubleshooting and Repairing
- Section 7 – Administrative and Operational Tasks
- Duration: 115 minutes
- Number of questions: 70
- Passing score: 300
- Exam languages: English
- Format: Single and multiple choice
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On this accelerated, all-inclusive course you'll get:
- Official e-courseware, fulfilling VMware's official eligibility requirements to become accredited
- 24/7 Access to your own dedicated server
- Hands-on lab training and instructor-led learning
- Both exams during your course so you can walk away certified
Firebrand Training offers top-quality technical education and certification training in an all-inclusive course package specifically designed for the needs and ease of our students. We attend to every detail so our students can focus solely on their studies and certification goals.
Our Accelerated Learning Programmes include:
- Intensive Hands-on Training Utilising our (Lecture | Lab | Review)TM Delivery
- Comprehensive Study Materials, Program Courseware and Self-Testing Software including MeasureUp *
- Fully instructor-led program with 24 hour lab access
- Examination vouchers **
- On site testing ***
- Accommodation, all meals, unlimited beverages, snacks and tea / coffee****
- Transportation to/from designated local railway stations
- Examination Passing Policy
Our instructors teach to accommodate every student's learning needs through individualised instruction, hands-on labs, lab partner and group exercises, independent study, self-testing, and question/answer drills.
Firebrand Training has dedicated, well-equipped educational facilities where you will attend instruction and labs and have access to comfortable study and lounging rooms. Our students consistently say our facilities are second-to-none.
Firebrand goes digital
We’re currently migrating from printed to digital courseware. Some courseware is already available in digital, while other books remain in printed form. To find out if this course is digital, call us on 080 80 800 888.
There are several benefits of easy-to-use digital courseware: downloads are immediate, and you’ll always have your courseware available wherever you are. You won’t need to wait for a printed book to be delivered before you start learning – and it’s better for the environment. You can choose to download the courseware to your own device, or borrow one of ours.
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Examination Passing Policy
Should a student complete a Firebrand Training Program without having successfully passed all vendor examinations, the student may re-attend that program for a period of one year. Students will only be responsible for accommodations and vendor exam fees.
Please note
- * Not on all courses
- ** Examination vouchers are not included for the following courses: GIAC, CREST and CISSP CBK Review. Exam vouchers may also not be included for Apprentices and will require a separate purchase by an employer due to Education and Skills Funding Agency guidelines.
- *** On site testing is not included for our GIAC, CREST or ITIL Managers and Revision Certification Courses
- **** Accommodation not included on the CISSP CBK Review Seminar
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While there are no official prerequisites for this course, you will benefit from knowledge of:
- System administration experience with a Virtualisation Technology
Unsure whether you meet the prerequisites?
Don’t worry - we’ll discuss your technical background, experience and qualifications to determine whether this accelerated course suits you.
Just call us on 080 80 800 888 and speak to one of our enrolment consultants.
Firebrand is an immersive environment and requires commitment. Some prerequisites are simply guidelines; you may find your unique experience, attitude and determination enables you to succeed on your accelerated course.
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"Brilliant training as per usual."
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"Excellent trainer, he described the slides in his own words, which really help me understand the course."
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"Its hard going, but rewarding. A good environment for learning. "
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"Firebrand has provided me with all of the material and excellent training which I required to reach my goal in becoming a VCP."
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"The training was very good and I feel extremely confident going in to my next exam."
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