Course Introduction • Introduction and course logistics • Course objectives vSphere and Virtualization Overview
• Explain basic virtualization concepts • Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure • Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere • Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs • Install an ESXi host vCenter Management
• Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter • Deploy vCenter Server Appliance • Configure vCenter settings • Use the vSphere client to add and manage license keys • Create and organize vCenter inventory objects • Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions • View vSphere tasks and events • Create a vCenter backup schedule • Recognize the importance of vCenter High Availability • Explain how vCenter High Availability works Configure and Manage vSphere Networking
• Configure and view standard switch configurations • Configure and view distributed switch configurations • Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches • Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches Configure and Manage vSphere Storage • Recognize vSphere storage technologies • Identify types of vSphere datastores • Describe fibre channel components and addressing • Describe iSCSI components and addressing • Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi • Create and manage VMFS datastores • Configure and manage NFS datastores • Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies Deploying Virtual Machines
• Create and provision VMs • Explain the importance of VMware tools • Identify the files that make up a VM • Recognize the components of a VM • Navigate the vSphere client and examine VM settings and options • Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources • Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them • Clone VMs • Create customization specifications for guest operating systems • Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries • Deploy VMs from content libraries • Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries Managing Virtual Machines
• Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances • Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion • Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations • Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion • Take a snapshot of a VM • Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots • Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment • Describe how VMs compete for resources • Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits • Recognize the role of a VMware Tools Repository • Configure a VMware Tools Repository • Recognize the backup and restore solution for VMs vSphere Cluster Management • Use Cluster Quickstart to enable vSphere cluster services and configure the cluster • View information about a vSphere cluster • Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster • Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings • Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster • Describe how vSphere HA responds to different types of failures • Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster • Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings • Configure a cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA • Recognize when to use vSphere fault tolerance • Describe the function of the vCLS • Recognize operations that might disrupt the healthy functioning of vCLS VMs Managing the vSphere Lifecycle
• Generate vCenter interoperability reports • Recognize features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager • Describe ESXi images and image depots • Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster • Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and remediate ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager • Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations • Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware tools and VM hardware Network Operations
• Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches • Describe how VMware vSphere network I/O control enhances performance • Define vSphere Distributed Services Engine • Describe the use cases and benefits of vSphere Distributed Services Engine Storage Operations
• Describe the architecture and requirements of vSAN configuration • Describe storage policy-based management • Recognize components in the vSphere virtual volumes architecture • Configure storage I/O control ESXi Operations
• Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance • Recognize the benefits of using configuration profiles vSphere Monitoring • Monitor the key factors that can affect a virtual machine’s performance • Describe the factors that influence vCenter performance • Use vCenter tools to monitor resource use • Create custom alarms in vCenter • Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline • Recognize uses for Skyline Advisor Pro
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