1. Course Introduction

• • Introduction and course logistics.
• • Course objectives.

2. VMware vSphere Foundation Overview and Architecture

• • Define the vSphere Foundation key features.
• • Explain vSphere Foundation use cases.
• • Explain the architecture of vSphere Foundation.
• • Explore the components of vSphere Foundation.
• • Introduction to VCF Operations.
• • List the steps to navigate the VCF Operations UI and vSphere UI.

3. License Management

• • Describe the process for managing and assigning licenses.
• • Enable VCF Operations integration for vCenter.
• • Explain license usage by product.

4. vSphere Foundation Compute 

• • Explain basic virtualization concepts.
• • Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center.
• • Describe vSphere architecture and use cases.
• • Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere.
• • Install and configure ESXi host.
• • Create and organize vCenter inventory objects

5. vSphere Foundation Networking 

• • Create and configure standard switch.
• • Create and configure distributed switch.
• • Differentiate between standard and distributed switches.
• • Explain how to set networking policies.

6. vSphere Foundation Storage 

• • Recognize vSphere storage technologies.
• • Identify the types of vSphere datastores.
• • Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing.
• • Describe iSCSI components and addressing.
• • Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi.
• • Create and manage VMFS datastores.
• • Configure and manage NFS datastores.

7. Deploying Virtual Machines

• • Create and provision VMs.
• • Explain the importance of VMware Tools.
• • Manage a virtual machine from the vSphere client.
• • Manage virtual machine resources.
• • List the steps to deploy virtual machines.
• • Clone VMs and create customization specifications for guest operating systems.
• • Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries.

8. Virtual Machine Management

• • Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• • Perform snapshots operations.
• • Specify CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits.

9. Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters

• • Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA.
• • Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster.
• • Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings.
• • Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures.
• • Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster.
• • Recognize vSphere HA design considerations.
• • Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings.
• • Configure a vSphere HA cluster.

10. vSAN Management

• • Identify the features of vSAN.
• • Understand the key differences between vSAN OSA and vSAN ESA.
• • Explain the role of the performance leg and the capacity leg in vSAN ESA.
• • Examine vSAN ESA Object health states.
• • Compare how RAID-0/1/5/6 space consumption.
• • Identify vSAN component states.

11. vSphere Kubernetes Service Overview 

• • Describe vSphere Supervisor Architecture and use cases.
• • Explain vSphere Supervisor Deployment Options.
• • Install vSphere Supervisor.
• • Explain Supervisor Storage vSphere Zones, Networking, and Storage.
• • Configuring and managing a supervisor.
• • Configuring vSphere Namespaces for Hosting VKS Clusters.
• • Managing vSphere Kubernetes Service Clusters.

12. VCF Operations Metrics 

• • Outline the role of metrics in VCF Operations.
• • Create and configure views in VCF Operations.
• • Create and configure reports in VCF Operations.
• • Create and configure dashboards in VCF Operations.
• • Configure widget interactions.
• • Describe the purpose of using alerts.
• • Identify the components of an alert definition.
• • Create static symptom definitions.

13. vSphere Foundation Deployment

• • Prepare the infrastructure for VMware vSphere Foundation.
• • Identify the information required for the Planning and Preparation Workbook.
• • Explain the high-level steps to deploy vSphere Foundation.
• • Describe the procedure for downloading the software using online and offline modes.
• • Describe the vSphere Foundation workflow using the VCF Installer UI and JSON spec file.
• • Deploy and enable VCF Operations collector, VCF Operations for Logs, and VCF Operations Orchestrator
• • Deploy vCenter Server Appliance.

14. Managing the vSphere Foundation Lifecycle

• • Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner.
• • Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports.
• • Recognize features of VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• • Validate and update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• • Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware