VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (v7)

Course Introduction
· Introductions and course logistics
· Course objectives
Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center
· 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
· Use VMware Host Client to access and manage ESXi host
Virtual Machines
· Create and remove a virtual machine
· Provision a virtual machine with virtual devices
· Identify the files that make up a virtual machine
· Explain the importance of VMware Tools
vCenter Server
· Describe the vCenter Server architecture
· Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
· Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
· Use the 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 vCenter Server High Availability to protect a vCenter Server Appliance
Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
· 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
Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
· 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
· Deploy virtual machines on a VMware vSAN datastore

Virtual Machine Management
· 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
· Dynamically increase the size of a virtual disk
· Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine
· Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
· Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
· Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere Replication
Resource Management and Monitoring
· 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
vSphere Cluster
· 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
· Configure a vSphere cluster using ESXi Cluster Quickstart
· Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
· Create a vSphere DRS cluster
vSphere Lifecycle
· Describe how VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager works
· Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to update ESXi hosts in a cluster