VMware Data Center Virtualization: Core Technical Skills (VMDCVCTS)

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