Introduction to VM ware Virtualization

1. Introduce virtualization and vSphere components
2. Explain the concepts of server, network, and storage virtualization
3. Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
4. Install and use vSphere user interfaces
5. Describe the ESXi architecture and configure various ESXi settings

Creating Virtual Machines

1. Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
2. Deploy a single virtual machine

VMware vCenter Server

1. Introduce v Center Server architecture
2. Manage v Center Server inventory objects and licenses

Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

1. Describe, create, and manage a standard virtual switch
2. Describe and modify standard virtual switch properties

Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

1. Introduce storage protocols and device names
2. Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
3. Create and manage VMware vSphere VMFS datastores
4. Introduce VMware vSpher eStorage Application

Virtual Machine Management

1. Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
2. Modify and manage virtual machines
3. Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
4. Perform VMware vSpherev Motion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
5. Create a vSphere vApp

Access and Authentication Control

1. Control user access through Roles and permissions
2. Discuss ESXi host access and authentication
3. Integrate ESXi with Active Directory

Resource Management and Monitoring

1. Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
2. Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
3. Configure and manage resource pools
4. Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage

High Availability and Fault Tolerance

1. Explain the vSphere High Availability architecture
2. Configure an manage a vSphere HA cluster
3. Set vSphere HA advanced parameters
4. Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) on a virtual machine

Host Scalability

1. Host Profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
2. Configure and manage a V Sphere Distributed Resource Scheduler TM cluster (DRS)
3. Configure Enhanced v Motion Compatibility
4. vSphere HA and DRS together
5. Configure and manage vSphere Distributed Power Management (vSphere DPM)

Network Scalability

Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches, network connections, and port groups

Storage Scalability

1. Explain Profile-driven storage
2. Add a storage policy to a virtual machine storage profile
3. Introduces storage I/O control
4. Create a data store cluster
5. Configure Storage DRS

Data Protection

1. Discuss a strategy for backing up ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
2. Introduce the VMware Data Recovery applications
3. Discuss solutions for efficiently backing up virtual machines

Patch Management

1. VMware vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi patching
2. Install Update Manager and the Update Manager plug-in
3. Create Patch baselines
4. Scan and remediate hosts

VMware VSphere Management Assistant

1. Describe VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)
2. Discuss the VM ware vSphere Command-Line interface command set

Installing VMware Components

1. Introduce ESXi installation
2. Describe boot-from-SAN requirements
3. Describe v Center Server hardware, software, and database requirements
4. Install vCenter Server (Windows-based)
5. Introduce vCenters Server Application
6. Install and configure vCenter Server Application