Introduction to Course
- Introductions and course logistics
- Objectives of the Course
- Advantages of the VMware Education Learning Zone
- Get a complete picture of the VMware certification system
- Identification of additional resources
vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center
- The topology of a physical data centre
- Files and components of virtual machines
- Benefits of using virtual machines
- vSphere virtual infrastructure
- Similarities and dissimilarities between physical architectures and virtual architectures
- Purpose of ESXi and vCenter Server
- Software-defined data centre
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
Overview of Virtual Machines
- Introduction to virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
- Importance of VMware Tools™
- PCI pass-through, Direct I/O, remote direct memory access, and NVMe
- Deploy and configure virtual machines and templates
- Identify the files that make up a virtual machine
- Latest virtual machine hardware and its features
- Virtual machine CPU, memory, disk, and network resource usage
- Identify the format of virtual machine disk
Introduction to vCenter Server
- The architecture of vCenter Server
- Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
- Use vSphere Web Client
- Backup and restore vCenter Server
- Examine vCenter Server permissions and roles
- Explain the vSphere HA architectures and features
- Access and navigate the new vSphere clients
- Examine the new vSphere authentication proxy
- Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
Configure and Manage Virtual Networks
- Describe, create, and manage standard switches
- Configure virtual switch security and load-balancing policies
- Compare and Contrast vSphere distributed switches and standard switches
- Types of virtual switch connection
- Describe the architecture of new TCP/IP stack
- Use VLANs with standard switches
Configure and Manage Virtual Storage
- Overview of the types of storage protocols and storage device
- ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores
- Latest features of VMFS 6.5
- vSAN
- Define guest file encryption
Introduction to Virtual Machine Management
- Deploy new virtual machines by using templates and cloning
- Modification and Management of virtual machines
- Clone a virtual machine
- Upgrade virtual machine hardware to version 12
- Remove virtual machines from the vCenter Server inventory and datastore
- Customise 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
- Introduction to the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them
Resource Management and Monitoring
- Virtual CPU and memory
- Techniques of virtual memory reclamation
- Describe virtual machine over commitment and resource competition
- Configure and manage resource pools
- Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
- Use various tools for monitor resource usage
- Describe and deploy resource pools
- Set reservations, limits, and shares
- Define expandable reservations
- Schedule changes to resource settings
- Create, clone, and export vApps
Introduction to 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 intra-app dependencies during failover
- Define vSphere HA heartbeat networks and datastore heartbeats
- 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
Overview of vSphere DRS
- Define the functions and benefits of a vSphere DRS cluster
- Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster
- Work with affinity and anti-affinity rules
- Define the new capabilities for what-if analysis and proactive vSphere DRS
- Highlight the evolution of vSphere DRS using predictive data from VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™
- Perform pre-emptive actions to prepare for CPU or memory changes
- Define 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
- 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 plug-in
- Create patch baselines
- Use host profiles to manage host configuration compliance
- Scan and remediate hosts
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