VMware vSphere Install Configure Manage (Official VMware IT Academy version)

Introductions and course logistics

Course objectives

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 how to proactively manage your vSphere environment using VMware Skyline

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

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 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

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

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

Describe the function of the vSphere© Cluster Service

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

Describe VMware vSphere© Lifecycle Manager? and VMware vSAN? integration