Introduction
Course goals and who this course is for
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1. Course Overview and Exam Strategy
Understanding VMware certification
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VMware licensing models
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What we will deploy
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VMUG EvalExperience program changes
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2. Virtualization Fundamentals and Core Concepts
Introduction to virtualization
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The four food groups of VMs
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VM files and live state
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SDDCs and the cloud
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Types of hypervisors
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Introduction to vCenter 9
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3. Installing the Core vSphere Foundation Stack
Preparing to install ESXi 9
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Running ESXi as a VM in VMware Workstation
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Installing ESXi 9 using interactive installation
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Create a local datastore using the host client
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Deploy vCenter VCSA 9
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Add an ESXi host to vCenter 9 VCSA
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Create content libraries in vSphere 9
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4. Configure and Manage vSphere Networking
Virtual networking concepts
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vSphere standard switches: Failure detection
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vSphere standard switches: NIC teaming
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vSphere standard switches: Traffic shaping
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Demo: Create a vSphere 9 standard switch
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Distributed switches and scalability
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Demo: Create a vSphere 9 distributed switch
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vSphere distributed switch NIC teaming
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Demo: Configure network IO control
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5. Configure and Manage Storage in vSphere Foundation
Storage virtualization concepts
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VMFS and NFS
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Fibre Channel
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iSCSI concepts
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Demo: Connect an ESXi host to iSCSI
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Demo: Create a VMFS datastore using iSCSI
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Demo: Storage port bindings and multipathing policies
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Introduction to vSAN
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vSAN Express storage architecture
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vSAN storage policies (FTT, RAID)
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Deduplication & compression
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Configure vSAN networking
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Create a vSAN cluster
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6. Deploy and Administer Virtual Machines
Demo: Create a VM in vSphere 9
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Demo: Install VMware Tools on a VM
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Snapshots in vSphere 9
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Deploying OVAs via vSphere client
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7. vMotion and Workload Mobility
vMotion concepts
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Storage vMotion
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Demo: Configure vMotion requirements
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Demo: vMotion
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Demo: Shared nothing vMotion
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8. vSphere High Availability
HA architecture overview
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HA datastore heartbeats and host isolation in vSphere 9
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HA failure scenarios in vSphere 9
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Demo: Basic high availability configuration in vSphere 9
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9. Resource Management and DRS
Resource pools
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Shares (fixed vs. scalable)
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DRS concepts
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DRS automation levels
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DRS affinity rules maintenance
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Mode behavior.wav
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10. VMware Cloud Foundation Operations (VCF Operations)
Introduction to VMware Cloud Foundation operations
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VCF operations architecture
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Integrating VCF operations with vCenter
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Deploy VCF operations
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Demo: Integrate VCF operations with vCenter
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Alerts, symptoms, and policies
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Demo: Create alerts and policies
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Demo: Build dashboards and views
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Views, dashboards, and reports review
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Capacity planning and forecasting
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