Detailed Course Outline
Course Introduction
- Introduction and course logistics.
- Course objectives.
VMware vSphere Foundation Overview and Architecture
- Define the vSphere Foundation key features.
- Explain vSphere Foundation use cases.
- Explain the architecture of vSphere Foundation.
- Explore the components of vSphere Foundation.
- Introduction to VCF Operations.
- List the steps to navigate the VCF Operations UI and vSphere UI.
License Management
- Describe the process for managing and assigning licenses.
- Enable VCF Operations integration for vCenter.
- Explain license usage by product.
vSphere Foundation Compute
- Explain basic virtualization concepts.
- Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center.
- Describe vSphere architecture and use cases.
- Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere.
- Install and configure ESXi host.
- Create and organize vCenter inventory objects
vSphere Foundation Networking
- Create and configure standard switch.
- Create and configure distributed switch.
- Differentiate between standard and distributed switches.
- Explain how to set networking policies.
vSphere Foundation Storage
- Recognize vSphere storage technologies.
- Identify the 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.
Deploying Virtual Machines
- Create and provision VMs.
- Explain the importance of VMware Tools.
- Manage a virtual machine from the vSphere client.
- Manage virtual machine resources.
- List the steps to deploy virtual machines.
- Clone VMs and create customization specifications for guest operating systems.
- Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries.
Virtual Machine Management
- Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion.
- Perform snapshots operations.
- Specify CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits.
Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters
- Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA.
- Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster.
- Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings.
- 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.
vSAN Management
- Identify the features of vSAN.
- Understand the key differences between vSAN OSA and vSAN ESA.
- Explain the role of the performance leg and the capacity leg in vSAN ESA.
- Examine vSAN ESA Object health states.
- Compare how RAID-0/1/5/6 space consumption.
- Identify vSAN component states.
vSphere Kubernetes Service Overview
- Describe vSphere Supervisor Architecture and use cases.
- Explain vSphere Supervisor Deployment Options.
- Install vSphere Supervisor.
- Explain Supervisor Storage vSphere Zones, Networking, and Storage.
- Configuring and managing a supervisor.
- Configuring vSphere Namespaces for Hosting VKS Clusters.
- Managing vSphere Kubernetes Service Clusters.
VCF Operations Metrics
- Outline the role of metrics in VCF Operations.
- Create and configure views in VCF Operations.
- Create and configure reports in VCF Operations.
- Create and configure dashboards in VCF Operations.
- Configure widget interactions.
- Describe the purpose of using alerts.
- Identify the components of an alert definition.
- Create static symptom definitions.
vSphere Foundation Deployment
- Prepare the infrastructure for VMware vSphere Foundation.
- Identify the information required for the Planning and Preparation Workbook.
- Explain the high-level steps to deploy vSphere Foundation.
- Describe the procedure for downloading the software using online and offline modes.
- Describe the vSphere Foundation workflow using the VCF Installer UI and JSON spec file.
- Deploy and enable VCF Operations collector, VCF Operations for Logs, and VCF Operations Orchestrator
- Deploy vCenter Server Appliance.
Managing the vSphere Foundation Lifecycle
- Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner.
- Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports.
- Recognize features of VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager
- Validate and update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
- Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware