VMware vSphere 6.5 Essential Training Part 1

Learn the essentials of configuring virtual networking, storage, and machines in vSphere 6.5.

Released: 6/19/2018

Learn the essentials of vSphere 6.5, the data center virtualization platform from VMware. Part 1 of this training series covers core vSphere concepts such as virtual networking, virtual storage, virtual machines, and virtual apps. It starts with installation and configuration of the core tools—vSphere, vCenter Server, and the ESXi hypervisor—and then introduces features such as vSphere switches, VMFS and NFS data stores, vSAN, templates, and cloning. Instructor Rick Crisci also demos many common tasks that you may need to perform as a vSphere administrator using the vSphere web client.

Topics include:

vSphere editions

Installing and configuring ESXi

Virtual networking with vSphere

Working with distributed and standard switches

Virtual storage

Creating NFS data stores

iSCSI storage

vSAN

Creating virtual machines and vApps

Duplicating machines with templates and cloning

1. Introduction

Introduction 1m 23s

Getting certified 4m 23s

Connect and get recognized 41s

2. vSphere Systems

vSphere license editions 3m 9s

Virtualization basics 19m 31s

vCenter and the Platform Services Controller (PSC) 4m 15s

What's new in vCenter 6.5 12m

Deploy vCenter Service Appliance (vCSA) 6.5 9m 21s

Licensing vCenter and ESXi 3m 39s

Demo: ESXi installation 6m 15s

Demo: Basic ESXi configuration 7m 48s

Content libraries 2m 34s

Update Manager 9m 48s

Demo: Update Manager 9m 7s

3. Networking

Virtual networking 5m 52s

vSphere standard switches 18m 57s

vSphere distributed switches 13m 24s

Virtual switch features 9m 31s

Demo: Create a vSphere standard switch 8m 41s

Bonus lecture: Understanding maximum transmission unit (MTU) 8m 9s

Demo: Create a vSphere distributed switch 17m 40s

4. Storage

Storage virtualization 9m 37s

VMFS vs. NFS 11m 17s

NFS 3 vs. NFS 4.1 4m 37s

Demo: Create an NFS data store 4m 47s

Fibre Channel storage 8m 25s

LUN masking 1m 13s

Zoning 1m 22s

Fibre Channel over ethernet 7m 18s

iSCSI storage 3m 22s

Software iSCSI 1m 33s

Dependent hardware iSCSI 1m 23s

Independent hardware iSCSI Initiator 1m 33s

iSCSI target discovery 3m 49s

Demo: Dynamic discovery 2m 51s

vSAN, part 1 8m 48s

vSAN, part 2 11m 50s

5. VMs and Apps

Demo: Create a virtual machine (VM) 8m 15s

Demo: Install VMware tools 5m 9s

Demo: Inflate a thin-provisioned disk 3m 22s

Demo: Create a vApp 3m 37s

Demo: Working with templates 12m 44s

Demo: Clone a VM 2m 51s

Demo: Import an OVF template 3m 44s

Snapshots 6m 53s