Introductions and course logistics

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 host

Lab 1: Accessing the Lab Environment

Lab 2: Configuring an ESXi Host

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™

Lab 3: Creating a Virtual Machine

Lab 4: Installing VMware Tools

Lab 5: Adding Virtual Hardware

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

Lab 6: Adding vSphere Licenses

Lab 7: Creating and Managing the vCenter Server Inventory

Lab 8: Configuring Active Directory: Joining a Domain

Lab 9: Configuring Active Directory: Adding an Identity Source

Lab 10: Users, Groups, and Permissions

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

Lab 11: Using Standard Switches

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

Lab 12: Accessing iSCSI Storage

Lab 13: Managing VMFS Datastores

Lab 14: Accessing NFS Storage

Lab 15: Using a vSAN Datastore

Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment

Describe what overcommitment 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

Lab 22: Controlling VM Resources

Lab 23: Monitoring Virtual Machine Performance

Lab 24: Using Alarms

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

Lab 25: Implementing vSphere DRS Clusters

Lab 26: Using vSphere HA

Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works

Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to update ESXi hosts in a cluster

Lab 27: Using vSphere Lifecycle Manager