Introduction and Overview

Cloud Computing and Virtualization

a. Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds
b. Virtualization defined
c. What's in it for me?
d. What is a hypervisor?

VMware vSphere
a. What is VMware vSphere?
b. VMware vSphere Components
c. What's new in VMware vSphere 6.0

Preparing to deploy VMware vSphere

a. Server Hardware Configuration

Install ESXi (VMware vSphere Hypervisor)

ESX hypervisor security, user authentication

a. User accounts
b. The VMware vSphere Client

Time In a VMware vSphere Environment

SBS LAB - Configure NTP on ESX with an External Stratum 1 time

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ESXi and Active Directory

a. Directory-based authentication, Default user Groups

Virtual Machines
a. Virtual Machine Concepts

b. Student's choice VM
c. Virtual Machine Files
d. Modifying Virtual Machines, Prepare VM for Production

Virtual Machine Resource Allocation

a. Memory Management, Transparent Page Sharing, and
Memory Ballooning
b. ESX Memory Swapping

Virtual Networking
a. Standard vSwitch Properties
b. Port Groups (Connection Types)
c. VLAN's
d. Uplinks (Physical NIC's)
e. Super vSwitch Concept
f. Network Diagnostics and Recovery

ESX Server SAN Storage and Multipathing

a. The VMFS filesystem
b. iSCSI SAN
c. VMFS 3 and VMFS 5

Operating System Migration (P2V, V2V, V2P, P2P)

a. Migration Methods, Techniques and Tools

vCenter Server
a. vCenter Server Services
b. vCenter Requirements

c. vCenter Required Components

d. vCenter Required Ports
e. Preparing for a vCenter Server Installation
f. The vCenter Database

vCenter Management
a. Initial Configuration
b. Tasks Events and Alarms
c. Host Profiles
d. vCenter Permissions
e. Templates and Clones

The VMware Update Manager

Performance Charts and Monitoring

a. Charts, Options and Counters
b. Using vCenter Performance Charts

vMotion and Storage vMotion

a. vMotion requirements

vCenter Clustering
a. Reasons for Clustering
b. Types of VMware vSphere Clusters
c. Resource Pools
d. VMware High Availability

Distributed Power Management (DPM)

a. DPM Requirements and Considerations

Backup Techniques for a Virtualized Datacenter

a. VMware vStorage API

Tools and Integrations for a Virtualized Datacenter

a. Disk Partitioning
b. Management Monitoring and Reporting Tools

Using the Remote Command Line to manage ESXi

a. A summary of Remote Commands
b. Considerations for Remote Command Line management

vNetwork Distributed Switch

a. Versions and use cases