VMware Data Center Virtualization: Core Technical Skills

1 Course Introduction - Introductions and course logistics - Course objectives 2 Virtualization and vSphere Concepts - Describe how virtual machines (VMs) work - Recognize the purpose of a hypervisor - Describe how VMs share resources in a virtualized environment - Recognize the components of an SDDC - Describe the relationship between vSphere, the SDDC, and cloud computing - Recognize the functions of the components in a vSphere environment - Access and view vSphere graphical user interfaces - Identify VMware solutions that integrate with vSphere in the SDDC 3 Navigating the vSphere Client - View and organize the inventory objects managed by vCenter Server - Add and assign vSphere licenses - Change the log level of vCenter Server - Edit the startup policy of ESXi services - Describe how vCenter Server roles and permissions work - Add permissions to virtual machines 4 Lifecycle of Virtual Machines - Add and remove VM virtual hardware components - Identify the purpose of different VM files - Configure VM settings - Create and delete virtual machines - Recognize the benefits of installing VMware Tools™ - Install VMware Tools into a guest operating system - Upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware compatibility 5 vSphere Networking - Describe virtual networking - Recognize ways that virtual switches connect VMs and ESXi hosts to the network - View components and properties of a vSphere standard switch configuration - View a vSphere distributed switch configuration in vSphere Client - Recognize when and how to use the settings for the security networking policy - Recognize when and how to use the settings for the traffic shaping networking policy - Describe how the NIC teaming and failover policy helps maintain network connectivity - Perform basic checks to diagnose VM connectivity issues 6 vSphere Storage - Describe the function of a datastore - Recognize types of vSphere datastores - View datastore information in vSphere Client - Monitor datastore usage in vSphere Client 7 Virtual Machine Management - Recognize the benefits of using VM templates - Create and update a VM template - Deploy a VM from an existing template - Clone a virtual machine - Recognize how to use guest OS customization specifications - Deploy VMs from a content library - Deploy a virtual appliance from an OVF template - Perform a hot and cold migrations of VMs - Identify requirements for using VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® - Perform a vSphere Storage vMotion migration - Identify use cases for VM snapshots - Create and manage snapshots of a virtual machine 8 Resource Monitoring - Recognize the purpose of each type of VM resource control - Configure the resource allocation settings of a VM - Observe the behavior of virtual machines with different share values - Manage and acknowledge vSphere alarms - Use performance charts to monitor VM CPU and memory usage - Monitor tasks and events in vSphere Client 9 vSphere Clusters - View information about the services that a vSphere cluster offers - Recognize how vSphere HA responds to different types of failures - Monitor vSphere HA during a host failure - Describe how vSphere DRS works - Interpret DRS scores given to VMs - Recognize how to apply the appropriate vSphere DRS automation and migration threshold levels - Describe how vSphere Fault Tolerance works - Recognize how Enhanced vMotion Compatibility works

Dieser viertägige, praxisorientierte Kurs ist eine Einführung in VMware vSphere®. In diesem Kurs erwerben Sie die Fähigkeiten, die Sie benötigen, um an Tag 2 betriebliche Aufgaben auszuführen, die typischerweise der Rolle eines Operators oder Junior-Administrators in einer vSphere-Umgebung zugeordnet sind. Am Ende des Kurses sollten Sie in der Lage sein, die folgenden Ziele zu erreichen: - Beschreiben Sie Virtualisierung und virtuelle Maschinen - Beschreiben Sie die vSphere-Komponenten und das Software-definierte Rechenzentrum (SDDC) - Erläutern Sie die Konzepte der Server-, Netzwerk- und Speichervirtualisierung - Überwachung von Netzwerk- und Datenspeicherkonfigurationen in VMware vSphere® Client™ - Bereitstellen, Konfigurieren und Klonen von virtuellen Maschinen - Migrieren, Überwachen und Verwalten virtueller Maschinen - Überwachen von Aufgaben und Ereignissen in VMware vSphere® Client™ - Erkennen, wie vSphere DRS und VMware vSphere® High Availability die Performance und - Verfügbarkeit eines vSphere-Clusters verbessern Zertifizierung Die Teilnahme an diesem Kurs wird empfohlen, um die folgende Zertifizierung zu erlangen: - VMware Certified Technical Associate - Data Center Virtualization (VCTA-DCV)

- Arbeitskenntnisse über Betriebssysteme - Grundlegende Kenntnisse von Netzwerk-, Speicher- und Computer-Hardware-Konzepten