VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] Course Content
- Introduction and course logistics.
- Course objectives and roadmap to VCP-DCV (VMware Certified Professional) certification.
- Virtualization Concepts: Explaining the SDDC (Software-Defined Data Center) and cloud infrastructure.
- System Interaction: How vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage.
- User Interfaces: Accessing the environment via the vSphere Client and VMware Host Client.
- ESXi Installation: Step-by-step setup of the hypervisor.
- Host Configuration: Managing settings via the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI).
- Best Practices: User account management and host security basics.
- vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA): Architecture and deployment.
- Inventory Management: Organizing datacenters, folders, and clusters.
- Permissions: Managing roles and licenses.
- Standard Switches (vSS): Creating and managing basic virtual networks.
- Distributed Switches (vDS): Implementing advanced networking across multiple hosts.
- Policies: Configuring security, traffic shaping, and load balancing policies.
- Storage Technologies: Understanding iSCSI, NFS, Fibre Channel, and vSAN.
- Datastores: Creating and managing VMFS and NFS datastores.
- vSphere Virtual Volumes (VVols): Overview of modern storage management.
- VM Creation: Provisioning and hardware settings (VMXNET3, NVMe).
- VMware Tools: Importance of drivers and management agents.
- Rapid Deployment: Using Templates, Cloning, and Content Libraries.
- Snapshots: Managing and consolidating VM state points.
- CPU & Memory: Understanding reservations, limits, and shares.
- Resource Pools: Grouping resources for departmental allocation.
- Alarms: Setting up monitoring and notifications for performance issues.
- vSphere DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler): Automatic load balancing of VMs across hosts.
- vSphere HA (High Availability): Minimizing downtime by restarting VMs on other hosts during hardware failure.
- Fault Tolerance (FT): Providing continuous availability with zero downtime.
- vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM): Managing host updates using images and baselines.
- vCenter Update Planner: Running pre-checks for upgrades.
- VM Upgrades: Keeping VMware Tools and VM Hardware versions current.