VMware Data Center Virtualization: Core Technical Skills (DCVCTS) Objectives

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• VMware Data Center Virtualization: Core Technical Skills (DCVCTS) Outline

  Course Introduction:

  - Introductions and course logistics
  - Course objectives

  Virtualization and vSphere Concepts:

  - Describe how virtual machines (VMs) work
  - Recognize the purpose of a hypervisor
  - Describe how VMs share resources in a virtualized environment
  - Recognize the components of an SDDC
  - Describe the relationship between vSphere, the SDDC, and cloud computing
  - Recognize the functions of the components in a vSphere environment
  - Access and view vSphere graphical user interfaces
  - Identify VMware solutions that integrate with vSphere in the SDDC

  Navigating the vSphere Client:

  - View and organize the inventory objects managed by vCenter Server
  - Add and assign vSphere licenses
  - Change the log level of vCenter Server
  - Edit the startup policy of ESXi services
  - Describe how vCenter Server roles and permissions work
  - Add permissions to virtual ma

  Lifecycle of Virtual Machines:

  - Add and remove VM virtual hardware components
  - Identify the purpose of different VM files
  - Configure VM settings
  - Create and delete virtual machines
  - Recognize the benefits of installing VMware Tools™
  - Install VMware Tools into a guest operating system
  - Upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware compatibility

  vSphere Networking:

  - Describe virtual networking
  - Recognize ways that virtual switches connect VMs and ESXi hosts to the network
  - View components and properties of a vSphere standard switch configuration
  - View a vSphere distributed switch configuration in vSphere Client
  - Recognize when and how to use the settings for the security networking policy
  - Recognize when and how to use the settings for the traffic shaping networking policy
  - Describe how the NIC teaming and failover policy helps maintain network connectivity
  - Perform basic checks to diagnose VM connectivity issues

  vSphere Storage:

  - Describe the function of a datastore
  - Recognize types of vSphere datastores
  - View datastore information in vSphere Client
  - Monitor datastore usage in vSphere Client

  Virtual Machine Management:

  - Recognize the benefits of using VM templates
  - Create and update a VM template
  - Deploy a VM from an existing template
  - Clone a virtual machine
  -Recognize how to use guest OS customization specifications
  - Deploy VMs from a content library
  - Deploy a virtual appliance from an OVF template
  - Perform a hot and cold migrations of VMs
  - Identify requirements for using VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
  - Perform a vSphere Storage vMotion migration
  - Identify use cases for VM snapshots
  - Create and manage snapshots of a virtual machine

  Resource Monitoring:

  - Recognize the purpose of each type of VM resource control
  - Configure the resource allocation settings of a VM
  - Observe the behavior of virtual machines with different share values
  - Manage and acknowledge vSphere alarms
  - Use performance charts to monitor VM CPU and memory usage
  - Monitor tasks and events in vSphere Client

  vSphere Clusters:

  - View information about the services that a vSphere cluster offers
  - Recognize how vSphere HA responds to different types of failures
  - Monitor vSphere HA during a host failure
  - Describe how vSphere DRS works
  - Interpret DRS scores given to VMs
  - Recognize how to apply the appropriate vSphere DRS automation and migration threshold levels
  - Describe how vSphere Fault Tolerance works
  - Recognize how Enhanced vMotion Compatibility works

• VMware Data Center Virtualization: Core Technical Skills (DCVCTS) Course Format

  Live Virtual Course

• VMware Data Center Virtualization: Core Technical Skills (DCVCTS) Prerequisites

  This course has the following prerequisites:

  Working knowledge of operating systems
  Understanding of basic network, storage, and computer hardware concepts