VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]

 

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]

Course Modules

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics

2 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

3 Installing and Configuring ESXi

• Install an ESXi host

• Recognize ESXi user account best practices

• Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and

VMware Host Client

4 Deploying and Configuring vCenter

• 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 vCenter logs and events

5 Configuring 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

6 Configuring 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

7 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

8 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

9 Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters

• Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS

and vSphere HA

• 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 various

types of failures

• Identify options for configuring network

redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster

• Recognize vSphere HA design considerations

• Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA

settings

• Configure a vSphere HA cluster

• Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance

 

 

 10 Managing the vSphere Lifecycle

• Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere

cluster

• Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner

• Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and

interoperability reports

• Recognize features of VMware vSphere® Lifecycle

ManagerTM

• Distinguish between managing hosts using

baselines and managing hosts using images

• Describe how to update hosts using baselines

• Describe ESXi images

• Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster

image and update ESXi hosts

• Update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle

Manager

• Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic

recommendations

• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade

VMware Tools and VM hardware