Module 1: Course Introduction
- Lesson 1: Introductions and course logistics
- Lesson 2: Course objectives
- Lesson 3: Describe the content of this course
- Lesson 4: Gain a complete picture of the VMware certification system
- Lesson 5: Familiarize yourself with the benefits of the VMware Education Learning Zone
- Lesson 6: Identify additional resources
Module 2: Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center
- Lesson 1: Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
- Lesson 2: Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage
- Lesson 3: Use vSphere Client to access and manage your vCenter Server system and ESXi host
- Lesson 4: Compare virtual machine hardware version 14 to other versions
- Lesson 5: Identify the virtual network adapters, and describe the enhanced VMXNET3
- Lesson 6: Compare the types of virtual disk provisioning
- Lesson 7: Install and configure ESXi host settings
- Lesson 8: Identify the advantages of ESXi Quick Boot
Module 3: Creating Virtual Machines
- Lesson 1: Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine
- Lesson 2: Explain the importance of VMware Tools
- Lesson 3: Describe how to import a virtual appliance OVF template
Module 4: vCenter Server
- Lesson 1: Describe the vCenter Server architecture
- Lesson 2: Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
- Lesson 3: Access and configure vCenter Server Appliance
- Lesson 4: Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory
- Lesson 5: Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server
- Lesson 6: Create custom inventory tags
- Lesson 7: Describe the rules for applying permissions
- Lesson 8: Create a custom role in vCenter Server
- Lesson 9: Create a vCenter Server Appliance backup schedule
- Lesson 10: Restore vCenter Server Appliance from a backup
- Lesson 11: Monitor vCenter Server Appliance
Module 5: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
- Lesson 1: Describe, create, and manage standard switches
- Lesson 2: Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping and load-balancing policies
- Lesson 3: Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches
- Lesson 4: Describe the virtual switch connection types
- Lesson 5: Describe the new TCP/IP stack architecture
- Lesson 6: Use VLANs with standard switches
Module 6: Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
- Lesson 1: Identify storage protocols and storage device types
- Lesson 2: Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Lesson 3: Create and manage VMware vSphere VMFS and NFS datastores
- Lesson 4: Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Lesson 5: Identify the advantages of VMware vSAN
Module 7: Virtual Machine Management
- Lesson 1: Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
- Lesson 2: Modify and manage virtual machines
- Lesson 3: Create an instant clone of a virtual machine
- Lesson 4: Identify the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them
- Lesson 5: Add a hot-pluggable device
- Lesson 6: Dynamically increase the size of a virtual disk
- Lesson 7: Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine
- Lesson 8: Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
- Lesson 9: Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
Module 8: Resource Management and Monitoring
- Lesson 1: Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment
- Lesson 2: Describe what overcommitment of a resource means
- Lesson 3: Identify additional technologies that improve memory usage
- Lesson 4: Configure and manage resource pools
- Lesson 5: Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
- Lesson 6: Use various tools to monitor resource usage
- Lesson 7: Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events
Module 9: vSphere HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance, and Protecting Data
- Lesson 1: Explain the vSphere HA architecture
- Lesson 2: Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
- Lesson 3: Use vSphere HA advanced parameters
- Lesson 4: Enforce infrastructural or intra-app dependencies during failover
- Lesson 5: Describe vSphere HA heartbeat networks and datastore heartbeats
- Lesson 6: Examine the features and functions of vSphere Fault Tolerance
- Lesson 7: Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines
- Lesson 8: Support vSphere Fault Tolerance interoperability with vSAN
- Lesson 9: Examine enhanced consolidation of vSphere Fault Tolerance virtual machines
- Lesson 10: Examine the features and functions of vSphere Replication
Module 10: vSphere DRS
- Lesson 1: Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
- Lesson 2: Create a vSphere DRS cluster
- Lesson 3: View information about a vSphere DRS cluster
- Lesson 4: Configure virtual machine affinity, DRS groups, and VM-host affinity rules
- Lesson 5: Remove a host from a vSphere DRS cluster
Module 11: Network Scalability
- Lesson 1: Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
- Lesson 2: Explain distributed features such as port mirroring, LACP, QoS tagging, and NetFlow
- Lesson 3: Configuring port mirroring on a distributed switch
Module 12: vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance
- Lesson 1: Describe the architecture, components, and capabilities of vSphere Update Manager
- Lesson 2: Use vSphere Update Manager to manage the patching of ESXi, virtual machines, and vApps
- Lesson 3: Examine the features and functions of vSphere Update Manager EAM integration
- Lesson 4: Integrate vSphere Update Manager with vSphere DRS
- Lesson 5: Describe and use host profiles
Module 13: Storage Scalability
- Lesson 1: Explain VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Array Integration, VMware vSphere® API for Storage Awareness, and vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering
- Lesson 2: Configure and assign virtual machine storage policies
- Lesson 3: Configure vSphere Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control
Module 14: Securing Virtual Machines
- Lesson 1: Set up encryption in your vSphere environment
- Lesson 2: Encrypt virtual machines
- Lesson 3: Encrypt core dumps
- Lesson 4: Enable encrypted vSphere vMotion
- Lesson 5: Describe support for virtual machine security features, such as UEFI secure boot, vTPM, and virtualization-based security
