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VMware vSphere Foundation: Build, Manage, and Operate [V9.0]

H54CXS

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H54CXS

Duration

5 days

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ILT/VILT

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Overview

This course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in deploying, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® Foundation. You learn about the architecture of vSphere Foundation, compute, storage, networks, and licensing.


This course prepares you to administer a VMWare vSphere Foundation, which includes VCF Operations 9.0, vCenter 9.0, and ESX 9.0.

Course ID

H54CXS

Duration

5 days

Format

ILT/VILT

Schedule, pricing & registration

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  • Audience

    This course is ideal for system administrators, solution engineers, consultants, architects, and support personnel.

  • Prerequisites

    Before attending this course, you should have:

    • Working experience and knowledge of VMware vSphere, VMware NSX, and vSAN environments

  • Objectives

    After completing this course, you should be able to:

    • Define the key features, use cases and, capabilities of vSphere Foundation
    • Navigating the VCF Operations user interface
    • Describe the licensing options and manage licenses for vSphere Foundation.
    • Describe the installation and configuration of ESX
    • Create virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches
    • Create and configure datastores using storage technologies supported by vSphere
    • Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
    • Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines
    • Manage virtual machine resource allocation
    • Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion
    • Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
    • Analyzing the placement of VM objects and components in the vSAN Cluster
    • Creating custom views and policies in VCF operations
    • Describe vSphere Kubernetes and vSphere Supervisor Service
    • Deploy and configure vSphere Foundation
    • Deploy additional vSphere Foundation components such as VCF Operations Collector, VCF Operations for Logs, and VCF Operations for Orchestrator
    • Manage the life cycle of VCF Operations and vSphere components

  • Certifications and related exams

    This course prepares you for VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator (2V0-16.25)

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  • Course outline

Module 1: Course Introduction
  • Introduction and course logistics
  • Course objectives

Module 2: VMware vSphere Foundation Overview and Architecture
  • Define the vSphere Foundation key features
  • Explain vSphere Foundation use cases
  • Explain the architecture of vSphere Foundation
  • Explore the components of vSphere Foundation
  • Introduction to VCF Operations
  • List the steps to navigate the VCF Operations UI and vSphere UI

Module 3: License Management
  • Describe the process for managing and assigning licenses
  • Enable VCF Operations integration for vCenter
  • Explain license usage by product

Module 4: vSphere Foundation Compute
  • Explain basic virtualization concepts
  • Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center
  • Describe vSphere architecture and use cases
  • Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
  • Install and configure ESX host
  • Create and organize vCenter inventory objects

Module 5: vSphere Foundation Networking
  • Create and configure standard switch
  • Create and configure distributed switch
  • Differentiate between standard and distributed switches
  • Explain how to set networking policies

Module 6: vSphere Foundation Storage
  • Recognize vSphere storage technologies
  • Identify the types of vSphere datastores
  • Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing
  • Describe iSCSI components and addressing
  • Configure iSCSI storage on ESX
  • Create and manage VMFS datastores.
  • Configure and manage NFS datastores.

Module 7: Deploying Virtual Machines
  • Create and provision VMs
  • Explain the importance of VMware tools
  • Manage a virtual machine from the vSphere Client
  • Manage virtual machine resources
  • List the steps to deploy virtual machines
  • Clone VMs and create customization specifications for guest operating systems
  • Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries

Module 8: Virtual Machine Management
  • Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion
  • Perform snapshots operations
  • Specify CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits

Module 9: Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters
  • Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere High Availability (HA)
  • Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster
  • Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings
  • Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures
  • Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster
  • Recognize vSphere HA design considerations
  • Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings
  • Configure a vSphere HA cluster

Module 10: vSAN Management
  • Identify the features of vSAN
  • Understand the key differences between vSAN OSA and vSAN ESA
  • Explain the role of the performance leg and the capacity leg in vSAN ESA
  • Examine vSAN ESA Object health states
  • Compare how RAID-0/1/5/6 space consumption
  • Identify vSAN component states

Module 11: vSphere Kubernetes Service Overview
  • Describe vSphere Supervisor Architecture and use cases
  • Explain vSphere Supervisor Deployment Options
  • Install vSphere Supervisor
  • Explain Supervisor Storage vSphere Zones, Networking, and Storage
  • Configuring and managing a supervisor
  • Configuring vSphere Namespaces for Hosting VKS Clusters
  • Managing vSphere Kubernetes Service Clusters

Module 12: VCF Operations Metrics
  • Outline the role of metrics in VCF Operations
  • Create and configure views in VCF Operations
  • Create and configure reports in VCF Operations
  • Create and configure dashboards in VCF Operations
  • Configure widget interactions
  • Describe the purpose of using alerts
  • Identify the components of an alert definition
  • Create static symptom definitions
  • Create static symptom definitions

Module 13: vSphere Foundation Deployment
  • Prepare the infrastructure for VMware vSphere Foundation
  • Identify the information required for the Planning and Preparation Workbook
  • Explain the high-level steps to deploy vSphere Foundation
  • Describe the procedure for downloading the software using online and offline modes
  • Describe the vSphere Foundation workflow using the VCF Installer UI and JSON spec file
  • Deploy and enable VCF Operations collector, VCF Operations for Logs, and VCF Operations Orchestrator
  • Deploy vCenter Server Appliance

Module 14: Managing the vSphere Foundation Lifecycle
  • Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner
  • Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports
  • Recognize features of VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager
  • Validate and update ESX hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
  • Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware

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