VMware vSphere Foundation: Build, Manage, and Operate [V9.0]

Course Duration

5 Days

Audience

Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.

Prerequisites

Basic experience with virtualization or server administration is recommended. This course is suitable for administrators, solution engineers, consultants, architects, and support personnel.

Course Description

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, including compute, storage, networks, and licensing. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere Foundation environment, which includes VCF Operations 9.0, vCenter 9.0, and ESX 9.0, and prepares you for the VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator (VCP-VVF Admin) certification.

Course Outline

• Introduction and course logistics.
• Course objectives.
• 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.
• Describe the process for managing and assigning licenses.
• Enable VCF Operations integration for vCenter.
• Explain license usage by product.
• 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
• Create and configure standard switch.
• Create and configure distributed switch.
• Differentiate between standard and distributed switches.
• Explain how to set networking policies.
• 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.
• Create and provision VMs.
• Explain the importance of VMware Tools.