By combining lecture and hands-on lab sessions, this course will help you gain the skills required to work effectively with VMware virtual machines. After completing this course, you may enroll in advanced vSphere courses. For advanced vSphere course options, go to http://www.vmware.com/education.
By the end of the course, you should be able to decide the career path that you want to pursue, whether a sales role, a pre-sales technical role, or a fully technical role. In addition, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe virtualization, virtual machines, and vSphere components
- Describe the concepts of server, network, storage, and desktop virtualization
- Deploy, configure, clone, and manage virtual machines
- Use VMware vCenter Server® to monitor virtual machine resource usage
- Use VMware vSphere® vApps™ to bundle and manage multiple interoperating virtual machines and software applications
- Use VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® to migrate virtual machines
- Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ and VMware vSphere® High Availability to optimize the performance of your vSphere virtual environment
- Identify the features of VMware cloud products
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Module 1: Course Introduction
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Module 2: Data Center Fundamentals
- Lesson 1: Identify the characteristics of servers
- Lesson 2: Specify how to access servers remotely
- Lesson 3: Describe server redundancy and how it benefits data centers
- Lesson 4:Describe the characteristics of storage, including RAID levels, local versus shared storage, and SAN versus NAS storage
- Lesson 5: Describe VMware virtual storage concepts
- Lesson 6: Identify the basic characteristics and components of networks
- Lesson 7: Define database terminologies
- Lesson 8: Describe the fundamental components and concepts behind data center virtualization
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Module 3: VMware Virtual Infrastructure Overview
- Lesson 1: Compare the components and concepts of traditional architecture and virtual architecture
- Lesson 2: Identify the benefits of virtual architecture
- Lesson 3: Describe the VMware virtualization infrastructure
- Lesson 4: Describe server virtualization concepts
- Lesson 5: Identify vSphere components, including vCenter Server, VMware ESXi™, and VMware vSphere® Client™
- Lesson 6: View and describe virtual network and storage components
- Lesson 7: Describe inventory objects managed by vSphere
- Lesson 8: Describe the main features of vCenter Server
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Module 4: Using vSphere Web Client
- Lesson 1: Identify the differences between the vSphere
- Lesson 2: Client and VMware vSphere® Web Client interfaces
- Lesson 3: Access, navigate, and customize vSphere Web Client
- Lesson 4: Use vSphere Web Client to monitor and manage vSphere objects
- Lesson 5: Perform searches in vSphere Web Client
- Lesson 6: Describe how roles and permissions can be assigned to users and user groups through vSphere Web Client
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Module 5: Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
- Lesson 1: Create and manage virtual machines
- Lesson 2: Install a guest operating system and VMware Tools™
- Lesson 3: Describe how to use clones and templates to manage virtual machines
- Lesson 4: Describe the importance of content libraries
- Lesson 5: Configure virtual machines
- Lesson 6: Use snapshots to manage virtual machines
- Lesson 7: Describe how raw device mapping enables a virtual machine to directly access and use a storage device
- Lesson 8: Describe virtual machine resource monitoring concepts
- Lesson 9: Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor virtual machine resource usage
- Lesson 10: Describe and monitor tasks
- Lesson 11: Describe, monitor, and manage events
- Lesson 12: Describe, monitor, manage, and acknowledge alarms
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