VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7]

Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics

Course objectives

Describe the content of this course

Gain a complete picture of the VMware certification system

Familiarize yourself with the benefits of the VMware Education Learning Zone

Identify additional resources

Introduction to vSphere and the SoftwareDefined Data Center

Describe the topology of a physical data center

Explain the vSphere virtual infrastructure

Define the files and components of virtual machines

Describe the benefits of using virtual machines

Explain the similarities and differences between physical architectures and virtual architectures

Define the purpose of ESXi

Define the purpose of vCenter Server

Explain the softwaredefined data center

Describe private public and hybrid clouds

Creating Virtual Machines

Introduce virtual machines virtual machine hardware and virtual machine files

Identify the files that make up a virtual machine

Discuss the latest virtual machine hardware and its features

Describe virtual machine CPU memory disk and network resource usage

Explain the importance of VMware Tools

Discuss PCI passthrough Direct IO remote direct memory access and NVMe

Deploy and configure virtual machines and templates

Identify the virtual machine disk format

vCenter Server

Introduce the vCenter Server architecture

Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance

Use vSphere Web Client

Back up and restore vCenter Server

Examine vCenter Server permissions and roles

Explain the vSphere HA architectures and features

Examine the new vSphere authentication proxy

Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses

Access and navigate the new vSphere clients

Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

Describe create and manage standard switches

Configure virtual switch security and loadbalancing policies

Contrast and compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches

Describe the virtual switch connection types

Describe the new TCPIP stack architecture

Use VLANs with standard switches

Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

Introduce storage protocols and storage device types

Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI NFS and Fibre Channel storage

Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores

Describe the new features of VMFS 65

Introduce vSAN

Describe guest file encryption

Virtual Machine Management

Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines

Modify and manage virtual machines

Clone a virtual machine

Upgrade virtual machine hardware to version 12

Remove virtual machines from the vCenter Server inventory and datastore

Customize a new virtual machine using customization specification files

Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations

Create and manage virtual machine snapshots

Create clone and export vApps

Introduce the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them

Resource Management and Monitoring

Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts

Explain virtual memory reclamation techniques

Describe virtual machine overcommitment and resource competition

Configure and manage resource pools

Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage

Use various tools to monitor resource usage

Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events

Describe and deploy resource pools

Set reservations limits and shares

Describe expandable reservations

Schedule changes to resource settings

Create clone and export vApps

Use vCenter Server performance charts and esxtop to analyze vSphere performance

vSphere HA vSphere Fault Tolerance and Protecting Data

Explain the vSphere HA architecture

Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster

Use vSphere HA advanced parameters

Define clusterwide restart ordering capabilities

Enforce infrastructural or intraapp dependencies during failover

Describe vSphere HA heartbeat networks and datastore heartbeats

Introduce vSphere Fault Tolerance

Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines

Support vSphere Fault Tolerance interoperability with vSAN

Examine enhanced consolidation of vSphere Fault Tolerance virtual machines

Introduce vSphere Replication

Use vSphere Data Protection to back up and restore data

vSphere DRS

Describe the functions and benefits of a vSphere DRS cluster

Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster

Work with affinity and antiaffinity rules

Describe the new capabilities for whatif analysis and proactive vSphere DRS

Highlight the evolution of vSphere DRS using predictive data from VMware vRealize Operations Manager

Perform preemptive actions to prepare for CPU or memory changes

Describe the vCenter Server embedded vSphere Update Manager VMware vSphere ESXi Image Builder CLI and VMware vSphere Auto Deploy capabilities

Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together for business continuity

vSphere Update Manager

Describe the new vSphere Update Manager architecture components and capabilities

Use vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi virtual machine and vApp patching

Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plugin

Create patch baselines

Use host profiles to manage host configuration compliance

Scan and remediate hosts