VSDCVPMTMaster ClassMT-VSDCVP1.0<p>By the end of the course, you should be able to achieve the following objectives:</p> <ul> <li>Install and configure ESX hosts</li><li>Deploy and configure vCenter</li><li>Configure vCenter High Availability</li><li>Use the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users</li><li>Create virtual networks with vSphere standard switches and distributed switches</li><li>Configure and manage vSphere networks and storage for a large and demanding enterprise</li><li>Create and configure data stores using storage technologies supported by vSphere</li><li>Use the vSphere&reg; Client&trade; to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots</li><li>Configure vSphere Replication and restore replicated VMs</li><li>Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines</li><li>Manage resource allocation for virtual machines using resource pools</li><li>Use the vSphere Client to manage certificates</li><li>Monitor the performance of vCenter, ESX, and VMs in the vSphere Client</li><li>Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere&reg; vMotion&reg; and VMware vSphere&reg; Storage vMotion&reg;</li><li>Create and configure a vSphere cluster enabled with VMware vSphere&reg; High Availability and VMware vSphere&reg; Distributed Resource Scheduler&trade;</li><li>Configure and manage a VMware Tools repository</li><li>Use configuration profiles to manage ESX host compliance</li><li>Manage the vSphere lifecycle to keep vCenter, ESX hosts, and virtual machines up to date</li><li>Use Identity Federation to configure vCenter to use external identity sources</li><li>Describe the role of the vSphere Supervisor in the use of Kubernetes clusters.</li></ul><p>The following prerequisites are required for this course:</p> <ul> <li>Experience in system administration of Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems</li><li>Basic knowledge and administrative experience with ESX and vCenter</li></ul><p>System administrators, system engineers, and system integrators</p><h5>Course introduction</h5><ul> <li>Introductions and course logistics</li><li>Course objectives</li></ul><h5>Overview of vSphere and Virtualization</h5><ul> <li>Explain fundamental virtualization concepts</li><li>Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and cloud infrastructure</li><li>Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere</li><li>Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs</li></ul><h5>Installing and configuring ESX</h5><ul> <li>Install an ESX host</li><li>Identify best practices for ESX user accounts</li><li>Configure ESX host settings using DCUI and VMware Host Client</li></ul><h5>Deploying and configuring vCenter</h5><ul> <li>Recognize communication between ESX hosts and vCenter</li><li>Deploy the vCenter Server appliance</li><li>Configure vCenter settings</li><li>Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys</li><li>Create and organize vCenter inventory objects</li><li>Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions</li><li>View vCenter logs and events</li><li>Create a vCenter backup plan</li><li>Recognize the importance of vCenter High Availability</li><li>Explain how vCenter High Availability works</li><li>Use the vSphere Client to manage vSphere certificates</li></ul><h5>Configure vSphere networks</h5><ul> <li>Configure and view standard switch configurations</li><li>Configure and view distributed switch configurations</li><li>Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches</li><li>Explain how to set network policies for standard and distributed switches</li><li>Configure and manage distributed vSphere switches</li><li>Describe how VMware vSphere Network I/O Control improves performance</li><li>Explain the features of distributed switches, such as port mirroring and NetFlow</li><li>Define the vSphere Distributed Services Engine</li><li>Describe the use cases and benefits of the vSphere Distributed Services Engine</li></ul><h5>Configuring vSphere Storage</h5><ul> <li>Recognize vSphere storage technologies</li><li>Identify types of vSphere datastores</li><li>Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing</li><li>Describe iSCSI components and addressing</li><li>Configure iSCSI storage on ESX</li><li>Create and manage VMFS datastores</li><li>Configure and manage NFS datastores</li><li>Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies</li><li>Describe the architecture and requirements of vSAN configuration</li><li>Describe storage policy-based management</li><li>Recognize components in the vSphere Virtual Volumes architecture</li></ul><h5>Provisioning virtual machines</h5><ul> <li>Create and deploy VMs</li><li>Explain the importance of VMware Tools</li><li>Identify the files that make up a VM</li><li>Recognize the components of a VM</li><li>Navigate the vSphere Client and review VM settings and options</li><li>Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources</li><li>Create VM templates and deploy VMs from those templates</li><li>Clone VMs</li><li>Create customization specifications for guest operating systems</li><li>Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries</li><li>Deploy VMs from content libraries</li><li>Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries</li><li>Recognize the role of a VMware Tools repository</li><li>Configure a VMware Tools repository</li></ul><h5>Virtual machine management</h5><ul> <li>Recognize the types of VM migrations you can perform within a vCenter instance and between vCenter instances</li><li>Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion</li><li>Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations</li><li>Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion</li><li>Create a snapshot of a VM</li><li>Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots</li><li>Describe CPU and memory concepts in the context of a virtualized environment</li><li>Describe how VMs compete for resources</li><li>Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits</li><li>Identify the backup and recovery solution for VMs</li><li>Identify the components of the vSphere replication architecture</li><li>Deploy and configure vSphere Replication</li><li>Restore replicated VMs</li></ul><h5>Deploying and configuring vSphere clusters</h5><ul> <li>Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA</li><li>View information about a vSphere cluster</li><li>Explain how vSphere DRS determines the placement of VMs on hosts in the cluster</li><li>Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings</li><li>Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster</li><li>Create and manage resource pools in a cluster</li><li>Describe how scalable shares work</li><li>Describe how vSphere HA responds to different types of failures</li><li>Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster</li><li>Recognize vSphere HA design considerations</li><li>Recognize the use cases for different vSphere HA settings</li><li>Configure a vSphere HA cluster</li><li>Recognize when vSphere Fault Tolerance should be used</li><li>Describe the function of vCLS</li></ul><h5>vSphere Lifecycle Management</h5><ul> <li>Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster</li><li>Describe the features of vCenter Update Planner</li><li>Perform vCenter upgrade pre-checks and interoperability reports</li><li>Recognize the features of VMware vSphere&reg; Lifecycle Manager&trade;</li><li>Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images</li><li>Describe how to upgrade hosts using baselines</li><li>Describe ESX images</li><li>Verify ESX host compliance with a cluster image and upgrade ESX hosts</li><li>Update ESX hosts with vSphere Lifecycle Manager</li><li>Describe the automatic recommendations of vSphere Lifecycle Manager</li><li>Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware</li><li>Use configuration profiles to manage ESX configuration compliance</li></ul><h5>vSphere Monitoring</h5><ul> <li>Monitor the key factors that can affect the performance of a virtual machine</li><li>Describe the factors that affect vCenter performance</li><li>Use vCenter tools to monitor resource usage</li><li>Create custom alerts in vCenter</li><li>Describe the benefits and features of VMware Skyline</li><li>Recognize the use cases for VCF Operations</li></ul><h5>vSphere Security and Access Control</h5><ul> <li>Recognize strategies for securing vSphere components such as vCenter, ESX hosts, and virtual machines</li><li>Describe vSphere support for security standards and protocols</li><li>Describe identity federation and recognize its use cases</li><li>Configure identity federation so that vCenter can use an external identity provider</li></ul><h5>vSphere Trusted Environments and VM Encryption</h5><ul> <li>Configure ESX host access and authentication</li><li>Describe virtual machine security features</li><li>Describe the components of a VM encryption architecture</li><li>Create, manage, and migrate encrypted VMs</li><li>List VM encryption events and alerts</li><li>Describe the benefits and use cases of vSphere Trust Authority</li></ul>By the end of the course, you should be able to achieve the following objectives: - Install and configure ESX hosts - Deploy and configure vCenter - Configure vCenter High Availability - Use the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users - Create virtual networks with vSphere standard switches and distributed switches - Configure and manage vSphere networks and storage for a large and demanding enterprise - Create and configure data stores using storage technologies supported by vSphere - Use the vSphere® Client™ to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots - Configure vSphere Replication and restore replicated VMs - Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines - Manage resource allocation for virtual machines using resource pools - Use the vSphere Client to manage certificates - Monitor the performance of vCenter, ESX, and VMs in the vSphere Client - Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® - Create and configure a vSphere cluster enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ - Configure and manage a VMware Tools repository - Use configuration profiles to manage ESX host compliance - Manage the vSphere lifecycle to keep vCenter, ESX hosts, and virtual machines up to date - Use Identity Federation to configure vCenter to use external identity sources - Describe the role of the vSphere Supervisor in the use of Kubernetes clusters.The following prerequisites are required for this course: - Experience in system administration of Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems - Basic knowledge and administrative experience with ESX and vCenterSystem administrators, system engineers, and system integratorsCourse introduction - Introductions and course logistics - Course objectives Overview of vSphere and Virtualization - Explain fundamental virtualization concepts - Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and cloud infrastructure - Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere - Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs Installing and configuring ESX - Install an ESX host - Identify best practices for ESX user accounts - Configure ESX host settings using DCUI and VMware Host Client Deploying and configuring vCenter - Recognize communication between ESX hosts and vCenter - Deploy the 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 - Create a vCenter backup plan - Recognize the importance of vCenter High Availability - Explain how vCenter High Availability works - Use the vSphere Client to manage vSphere certificates Configure vSphere networks - 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 network policies for standard and distributed switches - Configure and manage distributed vSphere switches - Describe how VMware vSphere Network I/O Control improves performance - Explain the features of distributed switches, such as port mirroring and NetFlow - Define the vSphere Distributed Services Engine - Describe the use cases and benefits of the vSphere Distributed Services Engine 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 ESX - Create and manage VMFS datastores - Configure and manage NFS datastores - Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies - Describe the architecture and requirements of vSAN configuration - Describe storage policy-based management - Recognize components in the vSphere Virtual Volumes architecture Provisioning virtual machines - Create and deploy 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 review VM settings and options - Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources - Create VM templates and deploy VMs from those templates - 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 - Recognize the role of a VMware Tools repository - Configure a VMware Tools repository Virtual machine management - Recognize the types of VM migrations you can perform within a vCenter instance and between vCenter instances - Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion - Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations - Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion - Create a snapshot of a VM - Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots - Describe CPU and memory concepts in the context of a virtualized environment - Describe how VMs compete for resources - Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits - Identify the backup and recovery solution for VMs - Identify the components of the vSphere replication architecture - Deploy and configure vSphere Replication - Restore replicated VMs Deploying and configuring vSphere clusters - Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA - View information about a vSphere cluster - Explain how vSphere DRS determines the placement of VMs on hosts in the cluster - Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings - Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster - Create and manage resource pools in a cluster - Describe how scalable shares work - Describe how vSphere HA responds to different types of failures - Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster - Recognize vSphere HA design considerations - Recognize the use cases for different vSphere HA settings - Configure a vSphere HA cluster - Recognize when vSphere Fault Tolerance should be used - Describe the function of vCLS vSphere Lifecycle Management - Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster - Describe the features of vCenter Update Planner - Perform vCenter upgrade pre-checks and interoperability reports - Recognize the features of VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ - Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images - Describe how to upgrade hosts using baselines - Describe ESX images - Verify ESX host compliance with a cluster image and upgrade ESX hosts - Update ESX hosts with vSphere Lifecycle Manager - Describe the automatic recommendations of vSphere Lifecycle Manager - Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware - Use configuration profiles to manage ESX configuration compliance vSphere Monitoring - Monitor the key factors that can affect the performance of a virtual machine - Describe the factors that affect vCenter performance - Use vCenter tools to monitor resource usage - Create custom alerts in vCenter - Describe the benefits and features of VMware Skyline - Recognize the use cases for VCF Operations vSphere Security and Access Control - Recognize strategies for securing vSphere components such as vCenter, ESX hosts, and virtual machines - Describe vSphere support for security standards and protocols - Describe identity federation and recognize its use cases - Configure identity federation so that vCenter can use an external identity provider vSphere Trusted Environments and VM Encryption - Configure ESX host access and authentication - Describe virtual machine security features - Describe the components of a VM encryption architecture - Create, manage, and migrate encrypted VMs - List VM encryption events and alerts - Describe the benefits and use cases of vSphere Trust Authority5 jours5980.005980.005980.005980.005980.005210.00