VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]

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 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 hos

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
• 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

Module 5: 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

Module 6: 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

Module 7: 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™

Module 8: Resource Management and Monitoring

• Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment
• Describe what over commitment 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 9: 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

Module 10: vSphere Lifecycle

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