vSphere 7: Deploying and Administering Virtual Machines and vApps
Do you want to learn how to administer and deploy vSphere virtual machines? This course will teach you how to create, configure, administer, and protect new virtual machines, templates, clones, vApps, and virtual appliances.
What you'll learn
Learning to create and protect virtual machines and other appliances doesn't have to be intimidating. In this course, vSphere 7: Deploying and Administering Virtual Machines and vApps, you will learn how to create, configure, administer, and protect new virtual machines, templates, clones, vApps, and virtual appliances. First, you will discover that administration of vSphere virtual machines can be easy and fun! Next, you will learn how to rapidly deploy new virtual machines from templates and content libraries. Finally, you will explore how to protect your virtual machines with Veeam Backup and vSphere Replication. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of vSphere 7 virtual machine administration needed to confidently manage and protect your vSphere virtual machines.
Table of contents
- What This Module Covers 3m
- Identify Capabilities of Virtual Machine Hardware Versions 3m
- New Features in VM Hardware 17 4m
- Identify Methods to Access and Use a Virtual Machine Console 7m
- Creating Your First Virtual Machine 6m
- Configure/Manage Virtual Machine Templates 2m
- Place Virtual Machines ESXi Hosts/Clusters/Resource Pools 3m
- Configure and Deploy a Guest OS into a New Virtual Machine 7m
- Configure/Modify Virtual Hardware 3m
- Create/Convert Thin/Thick Provisioned Virutal Disks 6m
- Install/Upgrade VMware Tools and Virtual Hardware 6m
- Configure PCI Pass-through and Direct I/O 5m
- Configure Virtual Machine Time Synchronization 2m
- What This Module Covered 2m
- What This Module Covers 2m
- Manage vCenter Inventory Efficiently 9m
- Differentiate between Power States of a Virtual Machine 5m
- Configure Virtual Machine Options, Power, and Boot Settings 6m
- Administer Virtual Machine Snapshots 3m
- Assign a Storage Policy to a Virtual Machine 3m
- Verify Storage Policy Compliance for Virtual Machines 2m
- Adjust Virtual Machine Resources 3m
- Hot Extend a Virtual Disk 7m
- What This Module Covered 2m
- Introduction 2m
- Enable/Disable Advanced Virtual Machine Settings 5m
- Explain Files Used by Virtual Machines 9m
- Interpret Virtual Machine Configuration File (.VMX) Settings 5m
- Configure Virtual Machines for Multicore vCPUs 6m
- Determine How Using a Shared USB Device Impacts the Environment 4m
- Configure Virtual Machines for vGPUs 3m
- What This Module Covered 2m
- Introduction 2m
- VMware Data Protection Overview 8m
- Install and Configure Veeam Backup and Replication 6m
- Create a Backup Job 3m
- Perform a Recovery 2m
- Describe vSphere Replication Architecture 8m
- Perform a Failback Operation Using vSphere Replication 7m
- Determine a Data Protection Solution for a Given vSphere Implementation 3m
- What This Module Covered 1m
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