vSphere Foundation: Build, Manage and Operate V9.x

System administrators, solution engineers, consultants, architects and support personnel

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Define the key features, use cases and, capabilities of vSphere Foundation
• Navigating the VCF Operations user interface
• Describe the licensing options and manage licenses for vSphere Foundation.
• Describe the installation and configuration of ESX
• Create virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches
• Create and configure datastores using storage technologies supported by vSphere
• Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
• Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines
• Manage virtual machine resource allocation
• Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion
• Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
• Analyzing the placement of VM objects and components in the vSAN Cluster
• Creating custom views and policies in VCF operations
• Describe vSphere Kubernetes and vSphere Supervisor Service
• Deploy and configure vSphere Foundation
• Deploy additional vSphere Foundation components such as VCF Operations Collector, VCF Operations for Logs, and VCF Operations for Orchestrator
• Manage the life cycle of VCF Operations and vSphere components

1. Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics.

• Course objectives.

2. vSphere Foundation Overview

• Define the vSphere Foundation key features.

• Explain vSphere Foundation use cases.

• Explain the architecture of vSphere Foundation.

3. vSphere Foundation Deployment

• Prepare the infrastructure for VMware vSphere Foundation.

• Identify the information required for the Planning and Preparation Workbook.

• Explain the high-level steps to deploy vSphere Foundation.

• Describe the procedure for downloading the software using online and offline modes.

• Describe the vSphere Foundation workflow using the Quick Installer UI and JSON spec file.

• List the steps to navigate the VCF Operations UI.

• Deploy and enable VCF Operations collector, VCF Operations for Logs, and VCF Operations Orchestrator

• Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance.

4. License Management

• Describe the process for managing and assigning licenses.

• Enable VCF Operations integration for vCenter.

• Explain license usage by product.

5. vSphere Foundation Compute

• 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 6. vSphere Foundation Networking • Create and configure standard switch.

• Create and configure distributed switch.

• Differentiate between standard and distributed switches.

• Explain how to set networking policies.

7. vSphere Foundation Storage

• 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. 8. Deploying Virtual Machines

• Create and provision VMs.

• Explain the importance of VMware Tools.

• Manage a virtual machine from the vSphere client.

 • Manage virtual machine resources.

• List the steps to deploy virtual machines.

• Clone VMs and create customization specifications for guest operating systems. • Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries.

9. Virtual Machine Management

• Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion.

• Perform snapshots operations.

• Specify CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits.

10. vSphere Clusters

• Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA.

• Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster.

• Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings.

• Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures.

• Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster. • Recognize vSphere HA design considerations.

• Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings.

• Configure a vSphere HA cluster.

11. vSAN Management

• Identify the features of vSAN.

• Understand the key differences between vSAN OSA and vSAN ESA.

• Explain the role of the performance leg and the capacity leg in vSAN ESA.

• Examine vSAN ESA Object health states.

• Compare how RAID-0/1/5/6 space consumption.

• Identify vSAN component states. 12. vSphere Kubernetes Service

• Describe vSphere Supervisor Architecture and use cases.

• Explain vSphere Supervisor Deployment Options.

• Install vSphere Supervisor.

• Explain Supervisor Storage vSphere Zones, Networking, and Storage.

• Configuring and managing a supervisor.

• Configuring vSphere Namespaces for Hosting VKS Clusters.

• Managing vSphere Kubernetes Service Clusters.

13. VCF Operations

• Outline the role of metrics in VCF Operations.

• Create and configure views in VCF Operations.

• Create and configure reports in VCF Operations.

• Create and configure dashboards in VCF Operations.

• Configure widget interactions.

• Describe the purpose of using alerts.

• Identify the components of an alert definition.

• Create static symptom definitions.

14. Managing the vSphere Foundation Lifecycle

• Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner.

• Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports. • Recognize features of VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager

• Validate and update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager

• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware