VMware vSphere Pack: ICM & Optimize and Scale v8

VMware vSphere ICM v8

1. Course Introduction
   • Introductions and course logistics
   • Course objectives
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 VMware 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

VMware vSphere Optimize and Scale v8

1. Course Introduction
   • Introductions and course logistics
   • Course objectives
2. Virtual Machine Operations
   • Recognize the role of a VMware Tools™ Repository
   • Configure a VMware Tools Repository
   • Recognize the backup and restore solution for VMs
   • Identify the components in the VMware vSphere® Replication™ architecture
   • Deploy and configure vSphere Replication and VMware Site Recovery™ instances
   • Recover replicated VMs
3. vSphere Cluster Operations
   • Create and manage resource pools in a cluster
   • Describe how scalable shares work
   • Describe the function of the vCLS
   • Recognize operations that might disrupt the healthy functioning of vCLS VMs
4. Network Operations
   • Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
   • Describe how VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control enhances performance
   • Explain distributed switch features such as port mirroring and NetFlow
   • Define vSphere Distributed Services Engine
   • Describe the use cases and benefits of VMware vSphere® Distributed Services Engine™
5. Storage Operations
   • Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies
   • Describe the architecture and requirements of vSAN configuration
   • Describe storage policy-based management
   • Recognize components in the VMware vSphere® Virtual Volumes™ architecture
   • Configure Storage I/O Control
6. vCenter and ESXi Operations
   • Create a vCenter backup schedule
   • Recognize the importance of vCenter High Availability
   • Explain how vCenter Server High Availability works
   • Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
   • Recognize the benefits of using configuration profiles
   • Use the vSphere client and the command line to manage certificates
7. vSphere Monitoring
   • Monitor the key factors that can affect a virtual machine's performance
   • Describe the factors that influence vCenter performance
   • Use vCenter tools to monitor resource use
   • Create custom alarms in vCenter
   • Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline™
   • Recognize uses for VMware Skyline Advisor™ Pro
8. vSphere Security and Access Control
   • Recognize strategies for securing vSphere components, such as vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines
   • Describe vSphere support for security standards and protocols
   • Describe identity federation and recognize its use cases
   • Configure identity federation to allow vCenter to use an external identity provider
9. vSphere Trusted Environments and VM Encryption
   • Configure ESXi Host Access and Authentication
   • Describe virtual machine security features
   • Describe the components of a VM encryption architecture
   • Create, manage, and migrate encrypted VMs
   • List VM encryption events and alarms
   • Describe the benefits and use cases of vSphere Trust Authority