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Prerequisites

- System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
- Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course or VCA-DCV certification

Objectives

This course is designed to teach you how to:
Deploy an ESXi host and create virtual machines
Deploy a vCenter Server instance or VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Configure and manage the vSphere infrastructure with VMware vSphere® Client and VMware vSphere® Web Client
Configure vSphere standard and distributed switches
Describe and use a content library
Migrate virtual machines and storage with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
Use VMware vRealize Operations Manager to identify and solve issues through analytics and alerts
Manage VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
Use VMware vSphere® Replication and VMware vSphere® Data Protection to replicate virtual machines and perform data recovery
Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler clusters to improve host scalability
Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager to apply patches
Perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, vCenter Server, virtual networking, virtual storage, and other vSphere operations.

Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

Software-Defined Data Center

Introduce virtualization and vSphere components
Explain the concepts of server, network, and storage virtualization
Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
Install and use vSphere user interfaces
Describe the ESXi architecture and configure various ESXi settings

Creating Virtual Machines

Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
Deploy a single virtual machine
Explain the importance of VMware Tools
Describe how to import an OVF template

vCenter Server

Introduce vCenter Server architecture
Introduce vCenter Server Appliance
Install and configure vCenter Server Appliance
Use vSphere Web Client
Configure VMware vCenter Single Sign-On and VMware Platform Services Controller
Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses

Troubleshooting vSphere

Use a structured approach to troubleshoot issues in vSphere
Discuss options for running vSphere commands
Locate and use important vSphere log files

Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

Describe, create, and manage a standard switch
Describe and modify standard switch properties
Describe the NIC teaming of a standard switch port group
Describe, create, and manage a distributed switch
Troubleshoot virtual networking

Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

Introduce storage protocols and device names
Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores
Introduce VMware Virtual SAN datastores
Troubleshoot virtual storage

Virtual Machine Management

Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
Modify and manage virtual machines
Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
Create vApps
Describe the types of content libraries
Troubleshoot virtual machines and snapshots

Resource Management and Monitoring

Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
Configure and manage resource pools
Use vCenter Server performance graphs & alarms to monitor resource usage
Use vRealize Operations Manager to manage a software-defined data center

vSphere HA and vSphere Fault Tolerance

Explain the vSphere HA architecture
Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
Set vSphere HA advanced parameters
Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on a virtual machine
Describe vSphere Replication and vSphere Data Protection
Troubleshoot vSphere HA

Host Scalability

Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
Create a vSphere DRS cluster
View information about a vSphere DRS cluster
Troubleshoot vSphere DRS clusters

vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance

Describe, install, and configure vSphere Update Manager
Describe and use host profiles
Use baselines and remediate ESXi hosts
Perform patch management