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Course Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

  • Describe virtualization and virtual machines Describe vSphere components and the software
  • defined data center (SDDC) Explain the concepts of server, network, and storage virtualization Monitor network and datastore configurations in VMware vSphere® Client™ Deploy, configure, and clone virtual machines Migrate, monitor, and manage virtual machines Monitor tasks and events in VMware vSphere® Client™ Recognize how vSphere DRS and VMware vSphere® High Availability improve performance and availability of a vSphere cluster

Agenda

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

  • Describe how virtual machines (VMs) work
  • Recognize the purpose of a hypervisor
  • Describe how VMs share resources in a virtualized
  • environment
  • Recognize the components of an SDDC
  • Describe the relationship between vSphere, the
  • SDDC, and cloud computing
  • Recognize the functions of the components in a
  • vSphere environment
  • Access and view vSphere graphical user interfaces
  • Identify VMware solutions that integrate with
  • vSphere in the SDDC

  • View and organize the inventory objects managed
  • by vCenter Server
  • Add and assign vSphere licenses
  • Change the log level of vCenter Server
  • Edit the startup policy of ESXi services
  • Describe how vCenter Server roles and permissions work
  • Add permissions to virtual machines

  • Add and remove VM virtual hardware components
  • Identify the purpose of different VM files
  • Configure VM settings
  • Create and delete virtual machines
  • Recognize the benefits of installing VMware Tools™
  • Install VMware Tools into a guest operating system
  • Upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware
  • compatibility

  • Describe virtual networking
  • Recognize ways that virtual switches connect VMs and ESXi hosts to the network
  • View components and properties of a vSphere standard switch configuration
  • View a vSphere distributed switch configuration in vSphere Client
  • Recognize when and how to use the settings for
  • the security networking policy
  • Recognize when and how to use the settings for
  • the traffic shaping networking policy
  • Describe how the NIC teaming and failover policy helps maintain network connectivity
  • Perform basic checks to diagnose VM connectivity issues

  • Describe the function of a datastore
  • Recognize types of vSphere datastores
  • View datastore information in vSphere Client
  • Monitor datastore usage in vSphere Client

  • Recognize the benefits of using VM templates
  • Create and update a VM template
  • Deploy a VM from an existing template
  • Clone a virtual machine
  • Recognize how to use guest OS customization specifications
  • Deploy VMs from a content library
  • Deploy a virtual appliance from an OVF template
  • Perform a hot and cold migrations of VMs
  • Identify requirements for using VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
  • Perform a vSphere Storage vMotion migration
  • Identify use cases for VM snapshots
  • Create and manage snapshots of a virtual machine

  • Recognize the purpose of each type of VM
  • resource control
  • Configure the resource allocation settings of a VM
  • Observe the behavior of virtual machines with
  • different share values
  • Manage and acknowledge vSphere alarms
  • Use performance charts to monitor VM CPU and
  • memory usage
  • Monitor tasks and events in vSphere Client

  • View information about the services that a vSphere
  • cluster offers
  • Recognize how vSphere HA responds to different
  • types of failures
  • Monitor vSphere HA during a host failure
  • Describe how vSphere DRS works
  • Interpret DRS scores given to VMs
  • Recognize how to apply the appropriate vSphere
  • DRS automation and migration threshold levels
  • Describe how vSphere Fault Tolerance works
  • Recognize how Enhanced vMotion Compatibility works
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Technical Vendor: VMware Product Line: VMWare Core Type: Core 0
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