Plan szkolenia
1. Course Introduction • Introduction and course logistics
• Course objectives
2. vSphere and Virtualization Overview
• Explain basic virtualization concepts
• Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center
and the cloud infrastructure
• Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
• Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory,
networks, storage and GPUs
3. Installing and Configuring ESXi
• Install an ESXi host
• Recognize ESXi user account best practices
• Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and
VMware Host Client
4. Deploying and Configuring vCenter
• Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter
• Deploy vCenter Server Appliance
• Configure vCenter settings
• Use the vSphere client to add and manage license keys
• Create and organize vCenter inventory objects
• Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions
• View vCenter logs and events
5. Configuring vSphere Networking
• Configure and view standard switch configurations
• Configure and view distributed switch configurations
• Recognize the difference between standard switches and
distributed switches
• Explain how to set networking policies on standard and
distributed switches
6. Configuring vSphere Storage
• Recognize vSphere storage technologies
• Identify types of vSphere datastores
• Describe fibre channel components and addressing
• Describe iSCSI components and addressing
• Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi
• Create and manage VMFS datastores
• Configure and manage NFS datastores
7. Deploying Virtual Machines
• Create and provision VMs
• Explain the importance of VMware tools
• Identify the files that make up a VM
• Recognize the components of a VM
• Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and
options
• Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources
• Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them
• Clone VMs
• Create customization specifications for guest operating
systems
• Create local, published and subscribed content libraries
• Deploy VMs from content libraries
• Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content
libraries
8. Managing Virtual Machines
• Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform
within a
vCenter instance and across vCenter instances
• Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion
• Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in
migrations
• Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion
• Take a snapshot of a VM
• Manage, consolidate and delete snapshots
• Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a
virtualized environment
• Describe how VMs compete for resources
• Define CPU and memory shares, reservations and limits
9. Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters
• Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and
vSphere High Availability (HA)
• View information about a vSphere cluster
• Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts
in the cluster
• Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings
• Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster
• Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of
failures
• Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a
vSphere HA cluster
• Recognize vSphere HA design considerations
• Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings
• Configure a vSphere HA cluster
• Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance
10. Managing the vSphere Lifecycle
• Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
• Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner
• Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports
• Recognize features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and
managing hosts using images
• Describe how to update hosts using baselines
• Describe ESXi images
• Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image
and update ESXi hosts
• Update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic
recommendations
• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware
tools and VM
hardware
