VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (v8)

Course Introduction
· Introductions and course logistics
· Course objectives
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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