Attendees should have user, operator or administrator experience on common operating systems such as Microsoft Windows®, Linux™, UNIX™, etc. Experience installing, configuring and managing operating systems, storage systems and or networks is useful but not required. We assume that all attendees have a basic familiarity with PC server hardware, disk partitioning, IP addressing, O/S installation, networking, etc.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Explain the many significant benefits of virtualization
• Install ESXi 7.0 according to best practices
• Use Host Client to manage standalone ESXi hosts
• Configure and manage local storage resources
• Create virtual and virtual to physical network configurations
• Configure and used Advanced vSwitch features including Teaming, Security and Jumbo Frames
• Define and use file share (NAS / NFS) datastores Create virtual machines, install operating systems and applications
• Create virtual machines, install operating systems and applications
• Install, configure and upgrade VMware Tools
• Install, configure and update vCenter Server Appliance
• Rapidly deployment of VMs using golden-master VM templates
• Create clones – one-time copies of virtual machine
• Use Guest OS customization to rapidly configure new VMs according to requirements
• Create Content Libraries to manage shared files
• Deploy VMs from Templates stored in Content Libraries
• Connect CD / DVD media in Content Libraries to a VM’s CD / DVD reader
• Configure and use hotplug hardware including hot-add vCPUs and Memory
• Configure, manage, monitor and secure users and groups
• Understand the benefits and trade offs of network attached storage and Fibre, iSCSI SANs
• Configure and use shared SAN storage including Fibre SAN, iSCSI SAN
• Configure direct VM to SAN volume storage with Raw Device Maps
• Add and grow virtual disks including system disks and secondary volumes
• Use vCenter alarms to monitor ESXi, VM, storage and network health, performance, state
• Use Resource Pools to bulk delegate resource to meet Service Level Agreements
• Perform VM cold migrations, hot VMotion migrations and hot Storage VMotion migrations
• Configure and manage server CPU and Memory capacity and maintain VM responsiveness with Distributed Resource Schedule load balanced clusters
• Deliver high VM service availability using VMware High Availability clusters
• Provide zero unplanned VM downtime using vSphere Fault Tolerance
• Use HA to successfully minimize unplanned VM down time caused by ESXi host failures, storage network failures or SAN volume failures
• Patch and update ESXi servers using vCenter Lifecycle Manager
• Create Distributed Virtual Switches. Migrate VM and VMkernel networking over to dvSwitches
• Monitor and tune both ESXi and virtual machine performance
• Understand how VMware and third party products, including operating systems, are impacted by virtualization
• Troubleshoot common problems

Who Should Attend

This class is suitable for anyone who want to learn how to extract the maximum benefit from their investment in Virtual Infrastructure, including:

• System architects or others who need to design virtual infrastructure
• Security specialists responsible for administering, managing, securing Virtual Infrastructure
• Operators responsible for day-to-day operation of Virtual Infrastructure
• Performance analysts who need to understand, provision, monitor Virtual Infrastructure
• Business Continuity specialists responsible for disaster recovery and high availability
• Storage administrators who work with Fibre / iSCSI SAN volumes and NAS datastores
• Managers who need an unbiased understanding of virtualization before committing their organization to a virtual infrastructure deployment.

Exam Details

Language – English

Number of Questions – 70

Format – Single and Multiple Choice, Proctored

Duration – 130 Minutes

Passing Score – 300

Passing Score – VMware exams are scaled on a range from 100-500, with the determined raw cut score scaled to a value of 300. Your exam may contain unscored questions in addition to the scored questions, this is a standard testing practice. You will not know which questions are unscored, your exam results will reflect your performance on the scored questions only.