 What is Virtualization?

 Introduction to VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 6.5 and vSphere vCenter

 Deploy an ESXi host and configure basic settings

 Installing ESXi

 Configuration of ESXi from DCUI

 Connect to ESXi host using

 Configure ESXi host using vSphere client

 Configure host setting: IP addressing, DNS, Licensing, Time Synchronization, etc.

 Creating Virtual Machines

 Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files

 Identify the files that make up a virtual machine

 Discuss the latest virtual machine hardware and its features

 Create VM and install guest OS

 Explain the importance of VMware Tools

 Deploy and configure virtual machines and templates

 Identify the virtual machine disk format

 Using vCenter Server

 Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance

 Use vSphere Web Client

 Back up and restore vCenter Server

 Examine vCenter Server permissions and roles

 Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses

 Access and navigate the new vSphere clients

 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 12

 Remove virtual machines from the vCenter Server inventory and datastore

 Customize a new virtual machine using customization specification files

 Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations

 Create and manage virtual machine snapshots

 Create, clone, and export vApps

 Introduce the types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them

 Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

 Describe, create, and manage standard switches

 Configure virtual switch security and load-balancing policies

 Contrast and compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches

 Describe the virtual switch connection types

 Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

 Introduce storage protocols and storage device types

 Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage

 Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores

 Describe the new features of VMFS 6.5

 Introduce vSAN

 Describe guest file encryption

 Resource Management and Monitoring

 Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts

 Explain virtual memory reclamation techniques

 Describe virtual machine overcommitment and resource competition

 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

 Describe and deploy resource pools

 Set reservations, limits, and shares

 Describe expandable reservations

 Schedule changes to resource settings

 Create, clone, and export vApps

 Use vCenter Server performance charts and esxtop to analyze vSphere performance

 vSphere HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance, and Protecting Data

 Explain the vSphere HA architecture

 Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster

 Describe vSphere HA heartbeat networks and datastore heartbeats

 Introduce 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

 Introduce vSphere Replication

 Use vSphere Data Protection to back up and restore data

 vSphere DRS

 Describe the functions and benefits of a vSphere DRS cluster

 Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster

 Work with affinity and anti-affinity rules

 Describe the new capabilities for what-if analysis and proactive vSphere DRS

 Highlight the evolution of vSphere DRS using predictive data from VMware vRealize Operations Manager

 Perform preemptive actions to prepare for CPU or memory changes

 Describe the vCenter Server embedded vSphere Update Manager, VMware vSphere ESXi Image Builder CLI, and VMware vSphere Auto Deploy capabilities

 Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together for business continuity

 vSphere Update Manager

 Describe the new vSphere Update Manager architecture, components, and capabilities

 Use vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi, virtual machine, and vApp patching

 Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in

 Create a patch baseline

 Attach a Baseline and Scan for Updates

 Stage the Patches onto the ESXi Hosts

 Scan and remediate the hosts