VMware vSphere: Fast Track [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 Clusters
•  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

Network Scalability
•  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

vSphere Lifecycle Management
•  Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works
•  Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to update ESXi hosts in a cluster

Host and Management Scalability
•  Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
•  Create and manage resource pools in a cluster

Storage Scalability
•  Explain why VMware vSphere® VMFS is a high-performance, scalable file system
•  Explain VMware vSphere® Storage APIs - Array Integration, VMware vSphere® API for Storage
   Awareness™, and vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering
•  Configure and assign virtual machine storage policies
•  Create VMware vSAN™ storage policies
•  Configure VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ and VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control
•  Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER

Introduction to vSphere with Kubernetes
•  Differentiate between containers and virtual machines
•  Identify the parts of a container system
•  Recognize the basic architecture of Kubernetes
•  Describe a basic Kubernetes workflow
•  Describe the purpose of vSphere with Kubernetes and how it fits into the VMware Tanzu portfolio
•  Explain the vSphere with Kubernetes supervisor cluster
•  Describe the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service