Программа курса
1 Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Describe the content of this course
- Gain a complete picture of the VMware certification system
- Familiarize yourself with the benefits of the VMware Education Learning Zone
- Identify additional resources
2 Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined 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
- Install and configure ESXi host settings
- Identify the advantages of ESXi Quick Boot
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
- Access and configure vCenter Server Appliance
- Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory
- Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server
- Create custom inventory tags
- Describe the rules for applying permissions
- Create a custom role in vCenter Server
- Create a vCenter Server Appliance backup schedule
- Restore vCenter Server Appliance from a backup
- Monitor vCenter Server Appliance
5 Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
- Describe, create, and manage standard switches
- Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping and load-balancing policies
- Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches
- Describe the virtual switch connection types
- Describe the new TCP/IP stack architecture
- Use VLANs with standard switches
6 Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
- Identify storage protocols and storage device types
- Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS and NFS datastores
- Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Identify the advantages of VMware vSAN™
7 Virtual Machine Management
- Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
- Modify and manage virtual machines
- Create an instant clone of a virtual machine
- Identify the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them
- Add a hot-pluggable device
- Dynamically increase the size of a virtual disk
- Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine
- Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
8 Resource Management and Monitoring
- Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment
- Describe what overcommitment of a resource means
- Identify additional technologies that improve memory usage
- Configure and manage resource pools
- 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
9 vSphere HA and vSphere Fault Tolerance
- Explain the vSphere HA architecture
- Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
- Use vSphere HA advanced parameters
- Enforce infrastructural or intra-app dependencies during failover
- Describe vSphere HA heartbeat networks and datastore heartbeats
- Examine the features and functions of vSphere Fault Tolerance
- Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines
- Support vSphere Fault Tolerance interoperability with vSAN
- Examine enhanced consolidation of vSphere Fault Tolerance virtual machines
- Examine the features and functions of vSphere Replication
10 vSphere DRS
- Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
- Create a vSphere DRS cluster
- View information about a vSphere DRS cluster
- Configure virtual machine affinity, DRS groups, and VM-host affinity rules
- Remove a host from a vSphere DRS cluster
11 vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance
- Describe the architecture, components, and capabilities of vSphere Update Manager
- Use vSphere Update Manager to manage the patching of ESXi, virtual machines, and vApps
- Examine the features and functions of vSphere Update Manager EAM integration
- Integrate vSphere Update Manager with vSphere DRS
12 Securing Virtual Machines
- Set up encryption in your vSphere environment
- Encrypt virtual machines
- Encrypt core dumps
- Enable encrypted vSphere vMotion
- Describe support for virtual machine security features, such as UEFI secure boot, vTPM, and virtualization-based security