Course Overview
This five-day course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in deploying, configuring and managing VMware vSphere Foundation. You will learn about the architecture of vSphere Foundation, compute, storage, networks and licensing.
This course prepares you to administer a vSphere Foundation, which includes VCF Operations 9.0, vCenter 9.0, and ESX 9.0.
Who should attend
System Administrators, Solution Engineers, Consultants, Architects, and Support Personnel
Prerequisites
This course has the following prerequisites:
- Working experience and knowledge of VMware vSphere, VMware NSX, and vSAN environments
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Define the key features, use cases and, capabilities of vSphere Foundation.
- Navigating the VCF Operations User Interface.
- Describe the licensing options and manage licenses for vSphere Foundation.
- Describe the installation and configuration of ESX.
- 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 VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion.
- Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphereDistributed Resource Scheduler.
- Analyzing the Placement of VM Objects and Components in the vSAN Cluster.
- Creating Custom Views and Policies in VCF Operations.
- Describe vSphere Kubernetes, vSphere Supervisor Service.
- Deploy and configure vSphere Foundation.
- Deploy additional vSphere Foundation components such as VCF Operations Collector, VCF Operations for Logs, andVCF Operations for Orchestrator.
- Manage the life cycle of VCF Operations and vSphere components.
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- VMware vSphere Foundation Overview and Architecture
- License Management
- vSphere Foundation Compute
- vSphere Foundation Networking
- vSphere Foundation Storage
- Deploying Virtual Machines
- Virtual Machine Management
- Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters
- vSAN Management
- vSphere Kubernetes Service Overview
- VCF Operations Metrics
- vSphere Foundation Deployment
- Managing the vSphere Foundation Lifecycle