vSphere Foundation: Build, Manage and Operate (VVFBMO) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Course Introduction
  • Introduction and course logistics.
  • Course objectives.
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.
License Management
  • Describe the process for managing and assigning licenses.
  • Enable VCF Operations integration for vCenter.
  • Explain license usage by product.
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 ESXi host.
  • Create and organize vCenter inventory objects
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.
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 ESXi.
  • Create and manage VMFS datastores.
  • Configure and manage NFS datastores.
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.
Virtual Machine Management
  • Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion.
  • Perform snapshots operations.
  • Specify CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits.
Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters
  • Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
  • Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware