VMWARE 6.5 / 6.7/ 7.0 COMBO COURSE OUTLINE

• Basic Concepts of virtualization to complete the VMware course.

• 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

• Describe the vCenter Server architecture
• Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
• 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

• 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 data stores
• Explain how multi pathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• Identify the advantages of VMware vSAN™

• Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine
• Explain the importance of VMware Tools™
• Describe how to import a virtual appliance OVF template

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Review troubleshooting tools
• Find important log files
• Use vSphere Syslog Collector
• ESXi core dump collector
• Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events
• ESXi command line
• ESXi / VM performance monitoring
• Virtual Center server advance options
• RV Tool deployment
• ESXi and VC license management

• Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment
• Describe what over commitment of a resource means
• Configure and manage resource pools

• Configure and Access vCenter Server Appliance with multiple Deployment Scenarios.
• Virtual Center Server link Mode
• Create a vCenter Server Appliance backup schedule
• Restore vCenter Server Appliance from a backup
• Monitor vCenter Server Appliance

• CISCO UCS hardware demonstration.
• How to work with physical hardware with management console.