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, I cover vSphere 6.7 from a build it, configure it, administer it, run it , scale it perspective. 100% of this course is Hands-on Lab demos of an actual VMware vSphere 6.7 installation. In this course, 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 major aspects of vSphere 6.7. In each Section, lectures are composed of one or more Hands-on Lab demo videos... with voice overs to explain what I am doing and why I am doing it. Ialso include narrative covering best practices, things to watch out for, issues / concerns, etc. 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.

Please note that this course does not provide access to live labs but does include video demonstrations of how to complete tasks using vSphere 6.7.

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 have vSphere experience, 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 6.7 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 (but aren't)

• Is your environment well designed and implemented? Is it configured consistently, is it scalable and is it redundant?All three are critically important and Iexplain as I go what you can do to achieve these objectives
  

What Does This Course Cover?

Basics: ESXi, vCenter installation, configuration
Networking:Introductory and advanced vSwitch networking including security, jumbo frames, pNIC teaming and dvSwitches
Virtual Machines:Build, configure, hot clone, rapid deployment, hot-plug vHardware and more
Storage:NFS, iSCSI, VMFS, Raw Device Maps, Profile Driven Storage, Load balanced Storage DRS clusters
Administration: ESXi and vCenter permissions and Infrastructure monitoring with Alarms
Resource Management:Resource Pools, VMotion and Storage VMotion, DRS load balanced clusters
Maximizing VM availability:vSphere HA clusters, Continuously available Fault Tolerant protected VMs

How Will This Course Benefit You?

If you are new to vSphere 6.7

• 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 common tasks in vSphere 6.7 using Web interfaces

• Learn about new vSphere 6.7 features and capabilities

Are you an experienced vSphere 6.7 administrator

• Use this course as a vSphere 6.7 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 6.7 Reference Guide

Just go to the section where I cover the material you need to learn, watch how it is done and pay attention to the best practices, tips or pitfalls I explain while I'm doing the 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!