Kurz: VMware vSphere – Install, Configure, Manage [V8] (EDU-VSICM8)

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• Originální literatura VMware v anglickém jazyce v ceně kurzu .

1. Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics.


• Course objectives.


• Describe the content of the course.


• Gain a complete picture of the VMware certification system.


• Familiarize yourself with the benefits of the VMware Education Learning Zone.


• Identify additional resources.

2. Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center

• 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.


• Identify the advantages of ESXi Quick Boot.


• Compare the types of virtual disk provisioning.

3. Creating Virtual Machines

• Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine.


• Explain the importance of VMware Tools™.


• Describe how to import a virtual appliance OVF template.


• Manage VMware Tools.


• Explain troubleshooting OS installation and VMware Tools.

4. vCenter Server

• Describe the vCenter Server architecture.


• Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server.


• Identify the vCenter Server services, components, and modules.


• Access and configure vCenter Server Appliance.


• Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory.


• Describe the rules for applying permissions.


• Create a custom role in vCenter Server.


• Create a backup schedule.


• Restore vCenter Server Appliance from backup.


• Monitor vCenter Server Appliance.

5. Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

• Describe, create, and manage standard switches.


• Configure virtual switch security and load-balancing policies.


• Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches.


• Describe the virtual switch connection types.


• Describe the new TCP/IP stack architecture.


• Use VLANs with standard switches.

6. Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

• 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 datastores.


• Describe the new features of VMFS 6.5.


• Identify the advantages of VMware vSAN™.


• Describe guest file encryption.

7. Virtual Machine Management

• Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines.


• Modify and manage virtual machines.


• Clone a virtual machine.


• Upgrade virtual machine hardware to version 14.


• Remove virtual machines from the vCenter Server inventory and datastore.


• Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine.


• Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations.


• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots.


• Create, clone, and export vApps.


• Identify the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them.

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8. Resource Management and Monitoring

• Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment.


• Describe what overcommitment of a resource means.


• Identify additional technologies that improve memory usage.


• Configure and manage resource pools.


• Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage.


• Use various tools to monitor resource usage.


• Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events.

9. vSphere HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance, and Protecting Data

• 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.


• Support vSphere Fault Tolerance interoperability with vSAN.


• Examine enhanced consolidation of vSphere Fault Tolerance virtual machines.


• Examine the features and functions of vSphere Replication.

10. vSphere DRS

• 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.

11. vSphere Update Manager

• Describe the new architecture, components, and capabilities of vSphere Update Manager.


• Use vSphere Update Manager to manage the patching of ESXi, virtual machines, and vApps.


• Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in.


• Create patch baselines.


• Use host profiles to manage host configuration compliance.


• Examine the features and functions of vSphere Update Manager EAM integration.


• Integrate vSphere Update Manager with vSphere DRS.


• Scan and remediate hosts.

12. vSphere Troubleshooting

• Define the scope of troubleshooting.


• Use a structured approach to solve configuration and operational problems.


• Identify troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency.