Syllabus of VMware vSphere Training Course
Module 1: Course introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Module 2: Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center
- Explain basic virtualization concepts
- Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center
- Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs
- Accessing the vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts
- Use VMware Host Client™ to access and manage ESXi host
Module 3: 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™
Module 4: vCenter Server
- Describe the vCenter Server architecture
- 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
- Access objects in the vCenter Server inventory
- Back up vCenter Server Appliance
- Monitor vCenter Server tasks, events
- Protect a vCenter Server Appliance
Module 5: Secure access and content control
- VPN: Gateway-to-gateway, hub and spoke, mesh
- Route base VPN
- GVC with local user DB
- SSL VPN with local user database
- LDAP authentication
- Knowledge check
Module 6: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
- Create and manage standard switches
- Describe the virtual switch connection types
- Configure virtual switch security
- Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches
Module 7: Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
- Identify storage protocols
- Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS
- Create VMFS and NFS datastores
- Works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Deploy virtual machines on a VMware vSAN™ datastore
Module 8: Virtual Machine Management
- Use cloning to deploy new virtual machines
- Modify and manage virtual machines
- Create a content library and deploy virtual machines
- Dynamically increase the size of a virtual disk
- Use customization specification files
- Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
- functions of VMware vSphere® Replication™
Module 9: 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
Module 10: vSphere Cluster
- vSphere environment highly available
- Explain the vSphere HA architecture
- Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
- VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
- vSphere cluster using ESXi Cluster Quickstart
- Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
- Create a vSphere DRS cluster
Module 11: vSphere Lifecycle
- VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works
- Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to update ESXi hosts in a cluster