VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V8] («VS8FT»)

1. Course Introduction
   • Introductions and course logistics
   • Course objectives
2. 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
   • Install an ESXi host
3. vCenter Management
   • 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 vSphere tasks and events
   • Create a vCenter backup schedule
   • Recognize the importance of vCenter High Availability
   • Explain how vCenter High Availability works
4. 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 
5. Configure and Manage 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
6. Configure and Manage 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
   • Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies
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
   • Recognize the role of a VMware Tools Repository
   • Configure a VMware Tools Repository
   • Recognize the backup and restore solution for VMs
8. vSphere Monitoring
   • Monitor the key factors that can affect a virtual machine's performance
   • Describe the factors that influence vCenter performance
   • Use vCenter tools to monitor resource use
   • Create custom alarms in vCenter
   • Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
   • Recognize uses for Skyline Advisor Pro
9. Deploying and Configuring vSphere Cluster
   • Use Cluster Quickstart to enable vSphere cluster services and configure the cluster
   • 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 different types of failures
   • Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster
   • Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings
   • Configure a cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
   • Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance
   • Describe the function of the vCLS
   • Recognize operations that might disrupt the healthy functioning of vCLS VMs
10. ESXi Operations
    • Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
    • Recognize the benefits of using configuration profiles
11. Managing the vSphere Lifecycle
    • Generate vCenter interoperability reports
    • Recognize features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager
    • Describe ESXi images and image depots
    • Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
    • Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and remediate ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
    • Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations
    • Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware
12. Network Operations
    • Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
    • Describe how VMware vSphere Network I/O Control enhances performance
    • Define vSphere Distributed Services Engine
    • Describe the use cases and benefits of vSphere Distributed Services Engine
13. Storage Operations
    • Describe the architecture and requirements of vSAN configuration
    • Describe storage policy-based management
    • Recognize components in the vSphere Virtual Volumes architecture
    • Configure Storage I/O Control

Cette formation complète s'adresse aux personnes débutant avec vSphere ainsi qu'aux personnes qui désirent se préparer à l'examen de la certification.

Les participantes et participants doivent avoir des connaissances de base en servezr, stockage, réseau et systèmes d'exploitation.

La participation à ce cours répond aux exigences de formation pour obtenir la certification :

• VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2024 (VCP-DCV 2024)

Pour laquelle vous devrez passer l’examen VMware vSphere 8.x Professional.
Le coût de l'examen de $250 USD (sous réserve de modification par l'éditeur) n'est pas compris dans le prix de la formation. Nous vous conseillons de passer l’examen un fois que vous aurez au moins 6 mois d’expérience dans le domaine, avec les technologies VMware.
Vous pouvez également vous y préparer grâce aux formations suivantes :

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage V8
• VMware vSphere: Fast Track V8
• VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure V8
• VMware vSphere: TroubleShooting V8

Nous vous conseillons de passer l’examen une fois que vous aurez au moins 6 mois d’expérience dans le domaine avec les technologies VMware.

Vous trouverez ici un aperçu de la certification VMware.

• VCP - Data Center Virtualization

Vous recevrez le matériel de cours sous forme électronique. Les documents vous seront envoyés deux ou trois jours à l'avance par VMware à l’adresse électronique mentionnée lors de votre inscription. Pour accéder aux documents et exercices pendant le cours, pensez à les télécharger et à apporter votre propre tablette ou ordinateur portable.