VMware vSphere 7 Installation, configuration and management

Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Datacenter

• Basic Virtualization Concepts
• vSphere, the software-defined datacenter and cloud infrastructure
• The interaction of vSphere with CPUs, memory, networking and storage
• The user interfaces for accessing the vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts
• The architecture of ESXi hosts
• Navigating the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) to configure an ESXi host
• Best practices for ESXi host user accounts
• Installing an ESXi host
• Using the VMware Host Client to configure ESXi Host settings

Virtual Machines (VM)

• Creating and deploying a VM
• The importance of VMware Tools
• Installing VMware Tools
• Identifying the files of an existing VM
• The components of a VM
• Virtual devices supported by a VM
• The benefits and use cases of containers
• Identifying the components of a container system

vCenter Server

• The vCenter Server architecture
• How ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
• Deploying and configuring the vCenter Server appliance
• Using the vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory
• Adding datacenter, organizational objects, and hosts for vCenter Server
• Using roles and permissions for user access to objects in the vCenter Server inventory
• Backing up the vCenter Server appliance
• Monitoring vCenter Server tasks. Events and appliance status
• Using VMware vCenter Server high availability to protect the vCenter Server appliance

Configuring and managing virtual memory

• Identify storage protocols and storage device types
• Using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage for ESXi hosts
• Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores
• How multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• The components of a VMware vSAN configuration

Configuring and managing virtual networks

• Creating and managing default switches
• The connection types of virtual switches
• Configuring virtual switch security, traffic shaping policies and virtual switch load balancing
• Comparing vSphere distributed switches and standard switches

Virtual machine management

• Using templates and clones to deploy new VMs
• Modifying and managing VMs
• Create a content library and deploy VMs from templates in the library
• Using the customization specification
• Files for customizing a new VM
• Performing vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
• The advanced vMotion compatibility feature
• Creating and managing snapshots for VMs
• The features and functionality of VMware vSphere Replication
• The benefits of VMware vSphere Storage APIs Data protection

Resource management and monitoring

• CPU and storage concepts in a virtualized environment
• The importance of overcommitting a resource
• The methods for optimizing CPU and memory utilization.
• The use of various tools to monitor resource usage.
• The creation and use of alarms to report specific conditions or events.

vSphere Cluster

• The features of a vSphere DRS cluster
• Creating a vSphere DRS cluster
• Monitoring a vSphere Cluster configuration
• The options for high availability of a vSphere environment
• The vSphere HA Architecture
• Configuring and managing a vSphere HA cluster
• The features and functions of VMware vSphere fault tolerance

vSphere Lifecycle Management

• The importance of vCenter Server Update Planner
• The functionality of VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Updating an ESXi host using baselines
• Verifying the compliance of ESXi hosts using a cluster image
• Update VMware tools and VM hardware

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