VMware Data Center Virtual.: Core Technical Skills

1 Course Introduction • Introductions and course logistics • Course objectives

2 Virtualization and vSphere Concepts • 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

3 Navigating the vSphere Client • 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

4 Lifecycle of 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

5 vSphere Networking • 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

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

7 Virtual Machine Management • 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

8 Resource Monitoring • 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

9 vSphere Clusters • 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