Introduction to cloud

1. Explain basic virtualization concepts
2. Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data centre and the cloud infrastructure
3. Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage
4. Recognize the user interfaces for accessing the vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts
5. Describe the ESXi host architecture
6. Navigate the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) to configure an ESXi host
7. Recognize ESXi host user account best practices
8. Install an ESXi host
9. Use VMware Host Client™ to configure ESXi host settings

1. Create and provision a virtual machine
2. Explain the importance of VMware Tools™
3. Install VMware Tools
4. Identify the files that make up a VM
5. Recognize the components of a VM
6. Recognize virtual devices supported by a VM
7. Describe the benefits and use cases for containers
8. Identify the parts of a container system

1. Describe the vCenter Server architecture
2. Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
3. Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
4. Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory
5. Add data centre, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server
6. Use roles and permissions to enable users to access objects in the vCenter Server inventory
7. Back up vCenter Server Appliance
8. Monitor vCenter Server tasks, events, and appliance health
9. Use VMware vCenter Server® High Availability to protect a vCenter Server Appliance

1. Create and manage standard switches
2. Describe the virtual switch connection types
3. Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping, and load-balancing policies
4. Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches

1. Identify storage protocols and storage device types
2. Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
3. Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores
4. Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
5. Recognize the components of a VMware vSAN configuration

1. Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
2. Modify and manage virtual machines
3. Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library
4. Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine
5. Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
6. Describe the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility feature
7. Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
8. Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Replication™
9. Describe the benefits of VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Data Protection

1. Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment
2. Describe what overcommitment of a resource means
3. Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
4. Use various tools to monitor resource use
5. Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events

1. Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
2. Create a vSphere DRS cluster
3. Monitor a vSphere cluster configuration
4. Describe options for making a vSphere environment highly available
5. Explain the vSphere HA architecture
6. Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
7. Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance

1. Recognize the importance of vCenter Server Update Planner
2. Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works
3. Describe how to update ESXi hosts using baselines
4. Validate ESXi host compliance using a cluster image
5. Describe how to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware