VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]

1. vSphere and Virtualization Overview
   
   • Explain basic virtualization concepts
   • Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
   • Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
   • Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs
2. Installing and Configuring ESXi
   
   • Install an ESXi host
   • Recognize ESXi user account best practices
   • Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client
3. Deploying and Configuring vCenter
   
   • Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter
   • Deploy vCenter Server Appliance
   • Configure vCenter settings
   • Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys
   • Create and organize vCenter inventory objects
   • Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions
   • View vCenter logs and events
4. Configuring vSphere Networking
   
   • Configure and view standard switch configurations
   • Configure and view distributed switch configurations
   • Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches
   • Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches
5. Configuring vSphere Storage
   
   • Recognize vSphere storage technologies
   • Identify types of vSphere datastores
   • Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing
   • Describe iSCSI components and addressing
   • Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi
   • Create and manage VMFS datastores
   • Configure and manage NFS datastores
6. Deploying Virtual Machines
   
   • Create and provision VMs
   • Explain the importance of VMware Tools
   • Identify the files that make up a VM
   • Recognize the components of a VM
   • Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options
   • Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources
   • Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them
   • Clone VMs
   • Create customization specifications for guest operating systems
   • Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries
   • Deploy VMs from content libraries
   • Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries
7. Managing Virtual Machines
   
   • Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances
   • Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion
   • Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations
   • Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion
   • Take a snapshot of a VM
   • Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots
   • Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment
   • Describe how VMs compete for resources
   • Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits
8. Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters
   
   • Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
   • View information about a vSphere cluster
   • Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster
   • Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings
   • Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster
   • Describe how vSphere HA responds to various t.ypes 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
   • Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance
9. Managing the vSphere Lifecycle
   
   • Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
   • Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner
   • Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports
   • Recognize features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager
   • Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images
   • Describe how to update hosts using baselines
   • Describe ESXi images
   • Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and update ESXi hosts
   • Update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
   • Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations
   • Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware

• Install and configure ESXi hosts
• Deploy and configure vCenter
• Use the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users
• 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 vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion
• Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with vSphere High Availability (HA) and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
• Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date

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