VMware Contents
Course Introduction
- Understanding Virtualization
- Vendors for Virtualization and products
- Versions of VMware VSphere
- Types of Hypervisor
- VCP Exam details
Introduction to VMWare VSphere
- Role of VMware VSphere
- Role of vCenter Server
- Role of Software Defined Data Center
- Understanding Physical Architecture and Virtual Architecture
Understanding VSphere Virtual Infrastructure - Understanding Virtual Machine
Understanding Virtual Machines
- Virtual machines concept
- Virtual Machine Hardware and its Features
- Virtual Machine CPU, Memory, Disk, Network etc...
- Virtual Machine Options
- Virtual Machine Files
Creating Virtual Machine
- Creating Virtual Machine
- Installing guest Operating System
- Understanding Virtual Machine Tools
- Installing VMware tools
- Modifying hardware setting
vCenter Server
- VCenter Server Architecture
- Deploy and configure VCenter Server Appliance
- VSphere web client
- Adding Host to VCSA
- Deploying Virtual Machine in VCenter Server
Virtual Machine Management
- Cloning Virtual Machine
- Creating Templates
- Deploying VMs from Templates
- Taking Snapshots
- Reverting back VMs in time using Snapshot
- Removing virtual machine
- OVA and OVF Open Virtualization
Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
- Create and Manage Virtual Switches
- Virtual Switch connection types
- Configuring Virtual Switches and port groups
- Virtual Switch policies
- NIC Teaming
Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
- Introduction to Storage protocols and Storage Devices.
- Discuss EXSi Host using DAS, FC SAN, iSCSI, FCoE, NAS
- Creating and managing VMFS and NFS datastores
- Discuss Multipathing iSCSI, NAS, FC SAN
- New Features of VMFS 6.5
- Increasing the size of a VMFS
- Deleting / unmounting VMFS datastore
VSAN
- Identify characteristics of storage devices: magnetic and flash-based devices
- Identify and explain various types of storage architectures
- Identify SAN performance factors
- Describe the vSAN architecture and components
- Describe the differences between the vSAN hybrid and all-flash architectures
- Describe the space-efficiency features of vSAN
Resource Management and Monitoring
- Understanding Virtual CPU and Memory concepts
- Virtual Machine Memory and over commitment
- Configure and Manage Resource pools
- Set reservations, limits, and shares
- Create and use alarms
VSphere High Availability
- VSphere High Availability Architecture
- Configure VSphere High Availability
- Adding host to Cluster
- VSphere High Availability Heartbeat
Fault Tolerance
- Introduction to Fault Tolerance
- Enabling Fault Tolerance on Virtual Machine
- Fault Tolerance logging
Distributed Resource Scheduler
- Functions and benefit of vSphere DRS Cluster
- Configure and manage VSphere DRS Cluster
- Work with affinity and anti-affinity rules
Scheduled Task, Events, and Alarms
- Discuss Task, Events and alarms
- Configure Alarms
- Configure SMTP
Trouble Shooting Virtual Infrastructure
- Troubling Shooting hosts, networks, and Storage
- Trouble shooting VMs
- Real time Scenarios