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

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

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, you should have:

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