Duration 5 days – 35 hrs
Overview
The VMware vSphere: Fast Track v8 Training Course is an intensive, accelerated learning program designed for IT professionals who need to quickly acquire comprehensive skills in managing VMware vSphere environments. This course covers installation, configuration, management, and troubleshooting of vSphere v8, equipping participants with the knowledge to effectively operate and optimize their virtualized infrastructure.
Objectives
- Understand the core AWS services and their role in system administration.
- Implement and manage scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS.
- Configure and manage monitoring and logging for AWS environments using CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
- Automate infrastructure deployment using AWS management tools like CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, and AWS OpsWorks.
- Implement security measures and manage access control with IAM, security groups, and key pairs.
- Troubleshoot, manage, and maintain AWS environments with proper maintenance procedures.
Audience
- System administrators or engineers responsible for managing and operating AWS infrastructure.
- DevOps professionals seeking to broaden their AWS knowledge.
- IT professionals who wish to gain an understanding of cloud computing and AWS operations.
Pre- requisites
- Have a basic understanding of cloud computing and AWS core services.
- Be familiar with Linux or Windows server administration.
- Have experience with networking concepts and TCP/IP.
- Ideally have some hands-on experience with AWS (although not mandatory, some familiarity with AWS is beneficial).
Course Content
Introduction to AWS and SysOps Administration
- Overview of AWS and Cloud Computing
- AWS global infrastructure
- Core AWS services: EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, and RDS
- SysOps role and responsibilities
- AWS management console and AWS CLI
- Overview of AWS Management Tools (AWS Systems Manager, CloudFormation, etc.)
- Setting up AWS environments and resources
- Creating and managing EC2 instances
- Introduction to Amazon S3 and data management
- Creating and managing VPCs, subnets, and security groups
Monitoring and Reporting
- Amazon CloudWatch and CloudTrail
- Setting up and managing CloudWatch metrics, logs, and alarms
- CloudWatch dashboards and monitoring applications
- CloudTrail for auditing and logging activities in AWS
- AWS Systems Manager for operational management
- Systems Manager automation and patch management
- Using Session Manager for instance management
Automation and Infrastructure as Code
- AWS CloudFormation
- Introduction to infrastructure as code with CloudFormation
- Creating and managing CloudFormation templates
- Automating resource provisioning with CloudFormation
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk and OpsWorks
- Introduction to Elastic Beanstalk for application deployment
- Managing applications using AWS OpsWorks
- Automating deployment processes and configurations
Security and Access Management
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Creating and managing IAM users, roles, and policies
- Enforcing security best practices with IAM
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in AWS
- Network Security in AWS
- Configuring security groups and network ACLs
- VPC Peering and VPNs
- Encryption in transit and at rest in AWS services
- AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and Secrets Manager
- Managing encryption keys and sensitive data
High Availability, Backup, and Troubleshooting
- Designing highly available architectures on AWS
- Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk for scaling applications
- Multi-Region and Multi-AZ deployments
- Backup and Disaster Recovery
- AWS Backup service
- Creating and managing backups for EC2, RDS, and S3
- Implementing disaster recovery strategies in AWS
- Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning
- Identifying and troubleshooting common AWS issues
- Performance monitoring and optimization using CloudWatch
- Resolving EC2, RDS, and S3 performance issues
