VCP-DCV VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, and Manage v7.0

At the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Describe the software-defined data center (SDDC)
• Explain vSphere components and their role in the infrastructure
• Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
• Install and configure ESXi hosts
• Deploy and configure the VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™
• Use the VMware vSphere® Client™ to Manage vCenter Server Inventory and vCenter Server Configuration
• Manage, monitor, support and protect vCenter Server Appliance
• Create virtual networks with vSphere Standard Switches.
• Describe storage technologies supported by vSphere
• Configure virtual storage using iSCSI and NFS storage
• Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores
• Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots.
• Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library.
• Manage virtual machine resource usage
• Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
• Create and manage a vSphere cluster enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™
• Discuss solutions for managing the vSphere lifecycle
• Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to perform updates to ESXi hosts and virtual machines.

Audience profile.

This course is aimed at

• System administrators
• System engineers

Prerequisites.

This course has the following prerequisites:

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.

Intensity and Schedules.

Live virtual training.

With an intensity of 40 hours, the training is given 3 times a week from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm Colombian time.

Introduction to the course

• Introductions and logistics of the course
• Course Objectives

Introduction to vSphere and the software-defined data center.

• Explain the basics of virtualization
• Describe how vSphere fits into software-defined data center and cloud infrastructure
• Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networking, and storage
• Recognize the user interfaces to access the vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts
• Describe the architecture of the ESXi host
• Navigating the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) to configure an ESXi host
• Recognize ESXi host user account best practices
• Install an ESXi host
• Use the VMware Host Client™ to configure ESXi host settings
• Describe how to proactively manage your vSphere environment using VMware Skyline

Virtual Machines.

• Create and provision a virtual machine
• Explain the importance of VMware Tools™
• Install VMware Tools
• Identify the files that make up a VM
• Recognize the components of a VM
• Recognize the virtual devices supported by a VM
• Describe the benefits and use cases of containers
• Identify the parts of a container system

vCenterServer.

• Describe the architecture of vCenter Server
• Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
• Deploy and configure the vCenter Server Appliance
• Use the vSphere Client to Manage vCenter Server Inventory
• Add datacenter, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server
• Use Roles and Permissions to Allow Users to Access Objects in the vCenter Server Inventory
• Back up the vCenter Server Appliance
• Monitor vCenter Server appliance status, events, and tasks
• Use VMware vCenter Server® High Availability to Protect a vCenter Server Appliance

Configure and manage virtual networks.

• Create and manage standard switches
• Describe virtual switch connection types
• Configure load balancing, traffic shaping, and virtual switch security policies
• Compare vSphere Distributed Switches and Standard Switches

Configuration and management of virtual storage.

• Identify storage protocols and types of storage devices.
• Discuss ESXi hosts that use iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel storage. • Create and manage warehouses
• VMFS and NFS data.
• Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel storage. Configuration of
• vSAN™

Virtual machine management.

• Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
• Modify and manage virtual machines
• Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library
• Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine
• Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion Migrations
• Describe the enhanced vMotion support feature
• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
• Explore the features and capabilities of VMware vSphere® Replication™
• Describe the benefits of the VMware vSphere® Storage APIs:

Data Protection resource monitoring and management.

• Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment
• Describe what excessive commitment of a resource means:
• Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
• Use various tools to monitor resource usage
• Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events

vSphere clusters.

• Describe the features of a vSphere DRS cluster
• Create a vSphere DRS cluster
• Monitor a vSphere Cluster Configuration
• Describe options for making a vSphere environment highly available
• Explain the architecture of vSphere HA
• Configure and Manage a vSphere HA Cluster
• Explore the features and capabilities of VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
• Describe the role of vSphere® Cluster Service

vSphere Lifecycle Management.

• Recognize the importance of vCenter Server Update Planner. • Describe how VMware works
• vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™. vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ and VMware vSAN™ Integration