Module 1: Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Module 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
Module 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
Module 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
Module 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
Module 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
Module 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
Module 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
Module 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
Module 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 vSphere Lifecycle Manager
- 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
Lab Outline:
Labs are designed to assure learners a whole practical experience, through the following practical activities:
- Lab 1: Accessing the Lab Environment
- Lab 2: Configuring an ESXi Host
- Lab 3: Adding vSphere Licenses
- Lab 4: Creating and Managing the vCenter Inventory
- Lab 5: Adding an Identity Source
- Lab 6: Users Groups and Permissions
- Lab 7: Creating Standard Switches
- Lab 8: Configuring vSphere Distributed Switches
- Lab 9: Accessing iSCSI Storage
- Lab 10: Managing VMFS Datastores
- Lab 11: Accessing NFS Storage
- Lab 12: Creating and Removing a Virtual Machine
- Lab 13: Installing VMware Tools
- Lab 14: Adding Virtual Hardware
- Lab 15: Modifying Virtual Machines
- Lab 16: Creating Templates and Deploying VMs
- Lab 17: Using Local Content Libraries
- Lab 18: Using Subscribed Content Libraries
- Lab 19: Versioning VM Templates in Content Libraries
- Lab 20: vSphere vMotion Migrations
- Lab 21: vSphere Storage vMotion Migrations
- Lab 22: Working with Snapshots
- Lab 23: Controlling VM Resources
- Lab 24: Implementing vSphere DRS Clusters
- Lab 25: Configuring vSphere HA
- Lab 26: Using vSphere Lifecycle Manager