VMware vSphere:
Install, Configure, Manage [V7] Course Overview
Introduction
to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center
- Explain basic virtualization
concepts
- Describe how vSphere fits
into the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
- Explain how vSphere
interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage
- Recognize the user interfaces
for accessing the vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts
- Describe the ESXi host
architecture
- Navigate the Direct Console
User Interface (DCUI) to configure an ESXi host
- Recognize ESXi host user
account best practices
- Install an ESXi host
- Use VMware Host Client™ to
configure ESXi host settings
- Describe the vCenter Server
architecture
- Discuss how ESXi hosts
communicate with vCenter Server
- Deploy and configure vCenter
Server Appliance
- Use vSphere Client to manage
the vCenter Server inventory
- Add data center,
organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server
- Use roles and permissions to
enable users to access objects in the vCenter Server inventory
- Back up vCenter Server
Appliance
- Monitor vCenter Server
tasks, events, and appliance health
- Use VMware vCenter Server®
High Availability to protect a vCenter Server Appliance
- Create and provision a
virtual machine
- Explain the importance of
VMware Tools™
- Install VMware Tools
- Identify the files that make
up a VM
- Recognize the components of
a VM
- Recognize virtual devices
supported by a VM
- Describe the benefits and
use cases for containers
- Identify the parts of a
container system
Configuring
and Managing Virtual Networks
- Create and manage standard
switches
- Describe the virtual switch
connection types
- Configure virtual switch
security, traffic-shaping, and load-balancing policies
- Compare vSphere distributed
switches and standard switches
Configuring
and Managing Virtual Storage
- Identify storage protocols
and storage device types
- Discuss ESXi hosts using
iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Create and manage VMFS and
NFS datastores
- Explain how multipathing
works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Recognize the components of
a VMware vSAN™ configuration
- Use templates and cloning to
deploy new virtual machines
- Modify and manage virtual
machines
- Create a content library and
deploy virtual machines from templates in the library
- Use customization
specification files to customize a new virtual machine
- Perform vSphere vMotion and
vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
- Describe the Enhanced
vMotion Compatibility feature
- Create and manage virtual
machine snapshots
- Examine the features and
functions of VMware vSphere® Replication™
- Describe the benefits of
VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Data Protection
Resource
Management and Monitoring
- Discuss CPU and memory
concepts in a virtualized environment
- Describe what overcommitment
of a resource means
- Describe methods for
optimizing CPU and memory usage
- Use various tools to monitor
resource use
- Create and use alarms to
report certain conditions or events
- Describe the functions of a
vSphere DRS cluster
- Create a vSphere DRS cluster
- Monitor a vSphere cluster
configuration
- Describe options for making
a vSphere environment highly available
- Explain the vSphere HA
architecture
- Configure and manage a
vSphere HA cluster
- Examine the features and
functions of VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
- Recognize the importance of
vCenter Server Update Planner
- Describe how VMware vSphere®
Lifecycle Manager™ works
- Describe how to update ESXi
hosts using baselines
- Validate ESXi host
compliance using a cluster image
- Describe how to upgrade
VMware Tools and VM hardware
