Vmware vSphere 6.0
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Content Outline
- Introduce virtualization and vSphere components
- Explain the concepts of server, network, and storage virtualization
- Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
- Install and use vSphere user interfaces
- Describe the ESXi architecture and configure various ESXi settings
- Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
- Deploy a single virtual machine
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- Introduce v Center Server architecture
- Manage v Center Server inventory objects and licenses
- Describe, create, and manage a standard virtual switch
- Describe and modify standard virtual switch properties
- Introduce storage protocols and device names
- Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Create and manage VMware vSphere VMFS datastores
- Introduce VMware vSpher eStorage Application
- Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
- Modify and manage virtual machines
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
- Perform VMware vSpherev Motion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
- Create a vSphere vApp
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- Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
- Modify and manage virtual machines
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
- Perform VMware vSpherev Motion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
- Create a vSphere vApp
- Control user access through Roles and permissions
- Discuss ESXi host access and authentication
- Integrate ESXi with Active Directory
- Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
- Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
- Configure and manage resource pools
- Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage
- Explain the vSphere High Availability architecture
- Configure an manage a vSphere HA cluster
- Set vSphere HA advanced parameters
- Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) on a virtual machine
- Host Profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
- Configure and manage a V Sphere Distributed Resource Scheduler TM cluster (DRS)
- Configure Enhanced v Motion Compatibility
- vSphere HA and DRS together
- Configure and manage vSphere Distributed Power Management (vSphere DPM)
- Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches, network connections, and port groups
- Explain Profile-driven storage
- Add a storage policy to a virtual machine storage profile
- Introduces storage I/O control
- Create a data store cluster
- Configure Storage DRS
- Discuss a strategy for backing up ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
- Introduce the VMware Data Recovery applications
- Discuss solutions for efficiently backing up virtual machines
- VMware vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi patching
- Install Update Manager and the Update Manager plug-in
- Create Patch baselines
- Scan and remediate hosts
- Describe VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)
- Discuss the VM ware vSphere Command-Line interface command set
- Introduce ESXi installation
- Describe boot-from-SAN requirements
- Describe v Center Server hardware, software, and database requirements
- Install vCenter Server (Windows-based)
- Introduce vCenters Server Application
- Install and configure vCenter Server Application