Module 1 - Course Introduction
- Understand the course goals
- Understand the course objectives
- Become familiar with the course outline\
Module 2 - Virtual Infrastructure Overview
- Describe server virtualization concepts
- Identify vSphere components, including vCenter Server, ESXi, and the vSphere Client
- View and describe virtual network and storage components
- Learn to use the vSphere Client management interface
Module 3 - Creating Virtual Machines
- Describe virtual machine virtual hardware components
- Create and use templates to deploy virtual machines
- Describe the functionality and benefits of installing VMware Tools on virtual machines
- Automate guest operating system customization
Module 4 - Allocating Compute Resources to Business Functions
- Describe CPU and memory resource management techniques used in ESXi
- Use virtual machine resource controls to allocate CPU and memory resources
- Use resources pools to hierarchically allocate CPU and memory resources
Module 5 - Migrating Virtual Machines
- Describe the operation and benefits of vMotion and Storage vMotion
- Use vMotion to migrate a live virtual machine
- Use Storage vMotion to migrate a live virtual machine’s data
Module 6 - Balancing Virtual Machine Workloads
- Describe the operation and scalability benefits of vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
- Configure a DRS cluster and resource pools
- Describe the operation and scalability benefits of Storage DRS
- Configure a Storage DRS cluster
- Describe the operation and cost benefits of vSphere Distributed Power Management
Module 7 - Monitoring the Virtual Datacenter
- Describe vCenter Server monitoring capabilities, including performance graphs and alarms
- Use performance graphs to monitor ESXi hosts
- Configure ESXi host and virtual machine alarms
Module 8 - High Availability and Fault Tolerance
- Describe the operation and availability benefits of vSphere High Availability
- Configure a vSphere HA cluster
- Describe the operation and availability benefits ofVMware Fault Tolerance
- Configure a virtual machine for fault tolerance
Module 9 - Extending VMware vSphere Capabilities
- Discuss how different VMware products and features work together to reduce the costs and improve the efficiency, availability, flexibility, and manageability of your datacenter