VMware vSphere® - Skills for Operators v6.7
Course Outline
1 - COURSE INTRODUCTION
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
2 - INTRODUCTION TO VSPHERE AND THE SOFTWAREDEFINED DATA CENTER
- Describe how vSphere fits into the software defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
- Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage
- Use vSphere Client to access and manage your vCenter Server system and ESXi host
- Compare virtual machine hardware version 14 to other versions
- Identify the virtual network adapters, and describe the enhanced VMXNET3
- Compare the types of virtual disk provisioning
3 - CREATING VIRTUAL MACHINES
- Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine
- Explain the importance of VMware Tools™
- Describe how to import a virtual appliance OVF template
4 - VCENTER SERVER
- Describe the vCenter Server architecture
- Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
- Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory
- Add data center and organizational objects to vCenter Server
- Add hosts to vCenter Server
- Discuss how to create custom inventory tags for inventory objects
- Monitor VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™
- Monitor vCenter Server Appliance for service and disk space usage
- Use vSphere alarms for resource exhaustion and service failure
5 - CONFIGURING AND MANAGING VIRTUAL NETWORKS
- Describe the virtual switch connection types
- Configure and view standard switch configurations, such as virtual machine port group, VMkernel port, VLAN, and security features
- List the features comparison of standard and distributed switches
6 - VIRTUAL STORAGE
- Describe vSphere storage technologies and datastores
7 - VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGEMENT
- Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
- Enable guest operating system customization by vCenter Server
- Upgrade a virtual machine’s hardware
- Perform an instant clone of a VM
- Describe virtual machine settings and options
- Add a hot-pluggable device
- Dynamically increase the size of a virtual disk
- Add a raw device mapping (RDM) to a virtual machine
- Perform a vSphere vMotion migration
- Perform a vSphere Storage vMotion migration
8 - RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING
- Use the performance-tuning methodology and resource monitoring tools
- Use performance charts to view and improve performance
- Monitor the key factors that can affect the virtual machine’s performance: CPU, memory, disk, and network bandwidth use
- Create alarms with condition-based triggers
- Create alarms with event-based triggers
- View and acknowledge triggered alarms
9 - VSPHERE HA
- Describe the options that you can configure to make your vSphere environment highly available
- Discuss the response of vSphere HA when an ESXi host, a virtual machine, or an application fails
10 - VSPHERE DRS
- Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
- Create a vSphere DRS cluster
- View information about a vSphere DRS cluster
- Remove a host from a vSphere DRS cluster
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