vSphere 7: Configuring and Managing vSphere Networking
In this course, you’ll learn how to configure vSphere 7 standard and distributed switches, port groups, virtual adapters, security policies, VLANs, and advanced features. Learn vSphere 7 networking and prepare for your VMware VCP certification!
What you'll learn
VMware vSphere powers the majority of the on-premises datacenters in the world today, and vSphere administrators are highly sought-after in the job market. The VMware Certified Professional (or VCP) is the most popular virtualization certification in the world. In this course, vSphere 7: Configuring and Managing vSphere Networking, you’ll learn how to configure vSphere standard and distributed switches. First, you'll learn how to configure port groups, virtual adapters, and policies. Next, you'll discover vSphere networking security, teaming, failover, and traffic shaping policies. By the end of this course, you'll know everything you need to know to configure and manage your vSphere 7 virtual network!
Table of contents
- What This Module Covers 1m
- Explain vSphere Standard Switch (vSS) Capabilities 6m
- Create and Delete a vSphere Standard Switch 8m
- Add and Configure/remove vNICs on a vSphere Standard Switch 6m
- Configure VMkernel Ports for Network Services 5m
- Add/edit/remove Port Groups on a vSphere Standard Switch 4m
- Determine Use Case for a vSphere Standard Switch 2m
- What You Learned 2m
- What This Module Covers 4m
- Explain vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) Capabilities 6m
- Differentiate between VDS and VSS 2m
- Create and Delete a vSphere Distributed Switch 7m
- Add/remove ESXi Hosts from a vSphere Distributed Switch 5m
- Add/configure/remove dvPort Groups 3m
- Add and Remove Uplink Adapters to dvUplink Groups 3m
- Configure vSphere Distributed Switch and dvPort Group Settings 8m
- Create/configure/remove Virtual Adapters 9m
- Migrate Virtual Adapters to/from a vSphere Distributed Switch 3m
- Migrate Virtual Machines to/from a vSphere Distributed Switch 4m
- Configure LACP on vDS Given Design Parameters 6m
- Determine Use Case for a vSphere Distributed Switch 3m
- What You Learned 3m
- What This Module Covers 2m
- Identify Common vSS and vDS Policies 4m
- Describe vDS Security Policies and Settings 4m
- Configure dvPort Group Blocking Policies 2m
- Configure Load Balancing and Failover Policies 7m
- Configure VLAN and PVLAN Settings 5m
- Configure Traffic Shaping Policies 3m
- Enable TCP Segmentation Offload Support for Virtual Machine 3m
- Enable Jumbo Frames Support on Appropriate Components 4m
- Recognize Behavior of vDS Auto-Rollback 5m
- Configure vDS to Support Long Distance vMotion 4m
- Determine VLAN Configuration for a vSphere Implementation 3m
- What You Learned 2m
About the author
David has authored over 100 courses for Pluralsight.com around enterprise data center technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization, and (especially) VMware vSphere. He is a partner at ActualTechMedia.com where he creates compelling enterprise technology content, moderates online events, and helps to connect some of the best-known technology companies in the industry with the end user community. With over 20 years in enterprise technology, he has served as an IT Manager, administrator, an... more