VMware vSphere : Install, Configure, Manage [v6.5]

• Introduction to course logistics
• Defining course objectives
• Content Description for the course
• 360-degree purview of the VMware certification system
• Building affinity with the VMware Education Learning Zone
• Exploring supplementary resources
   

• Describing the anatomy of a physical data center
• Explaining vSphere virtual infrastructure
• Files and component description of virtual machines
• Describing the aids of using virtual machines
• Determining similarities and differences between physical and virtual frameworks
• Defining the purpose of ESXi
• Defining the purpose of vCenter Server
• Describing the software-defined data center
• Exploring private, public, and hybrid clouds
   

3. Creating Virtual Machines

• Introduction to virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
• Identification of files that fabricate a virtual machine
• Determine state-of-the-art virtual machine hardware and its features
• Explain virtual machine CPU, memory, disk, and network resource usage
• Define the importance of VMware Tools™
• Confer PCI pass-through, Direct I/O, remote direct memory access, and NVMe
• Create and optimize virtual machines and templates
• Explore the virtual machine disk format
   

• Introduction to vCenter Server architecture
• Managing and shaping vCenter Server Appliance
• Utilizing vSphere Web Client
• Backup and restore vCenter Server
• Examining vCenter Server permissions and roles
• Explaining the vSphere HA architectures and features
• Examining the new vSphere authentication proxy
• Deploying vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
• Access and navigation to new vSphere clients
   

• Describing, creating, and managing standard switches
• Configuring virtual switch security and load-balancing policies
• Comparison between vSphere distributed switches and standard switches
• Describing the virtual switch connection types
• Describing the new TCP/IP stack architecture
• Using VLANs with standard switches
   

• Introduction to storage protocols and storage device types
• Describing ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• Creating and configuring VMFS and NFS data stores
• Description of new features of VMFS 6.5
• Introduction to Virtual SAN
• Description of guest file encryption
   

• Usage of templates and cloning to create new virtual machines
• Modify and configure virtual machines
• Clone a virtual machine
• Elevation of virtual machine hardware to version 12
• Removal of virtual machines from the vCenter Server inventory and datastore
• Customization of a new virtual machine using customization specification files
• Performing vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
• Creating and managing virtual machine snapshots
• Creating, cloning, and exporting vApps
• Introduction to the types of content libraries and exploring ways to use them
   

• Introduction to virtual CPU and memory concepts
• Explaining virtual memory recovery techniques
• Describing virtual machine over commitment and resource competition
• Configuring and managing resource pools
• Describing methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
• Deploying various tools to monitor resource usage
• Generate and routine alarms for reporting certain conditions or events
• Exploring resource pools
• Setting reservations, limits, and shares
• Describing expandable reservations
• Scheduling changes to resource settings
• Creating, cloning, and exporting vApps
• Using vCenter Server performance charts and desktop for vSphere performance analysis
   

• Explaining the vSphere HA architecture
• Configuring and managing a vSphere HA cluster
• Using vSphere HA advanced parameters
• Defining cluster wide restart ordering capabilities
• Imposing infrastructural or intra-app dependencies during failover
• Describing vSphere HA heartbeat networks and data store heartbeats
• Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines
• Introduce vSphere Fault Tolerance
• Support vSphere Fault Tolerance interoperability with Virtual SAN
• Examining enhanced alliance of vSphere Fault Tolerance virtual machines
• Introduction to vSphere Replication
• Using vSphere Data Protection to back up and restore data
   

• Defining the features and benefits of a vSphere DRS cluster
• Configuration and management a vSphere DRS cluster
• Working with affinity and anti-affinity rules
• Describing new capabilities for what-if analysis and proactive vSphere DRS
• Emphasis on the evolution of vSphere DRS using predictive data from VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™
• Performing preemptive actions to prepare for CPU or memory changes
• Describing the vCenter Server embedded vSphere Update Manager, VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Image Builder CLI, and VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy capabilities
• Combined use of vSphere HA and vSphere DRS for business sustainability
   

• Defining the new vSphere Update Manager architecture, components, and capabilities
• Using vSphere Update Manager to control ESXi, virtual machine and vApp patching
• Installing vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in
• Creating patch baselines
• Utilizing host profiles to manage host configuration compliance
• Scanning and repairing hosts