- Introduction
- Hands-on-labs
- Review - Virtual Networking
- Review - vSphere Standard Switches
- vSphere Distributed Switches
- vSphere Distributed Switch Features
- Demo: Create a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Demo: Configure vDS Policies and Port Blocking
- Demo: Migrate VMs to a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Demo: Verify Network Configuration
- Demo - Manage Physical Network Adapters (VMNICs) on an ESXI host
- Demo: Configure Traffic Shaping
- Network IO Control and Storage IO Control
- Demo: Configure Network I/O Control
- Private VLANs
- Demo: Configure Private VLANs
- Demo: TCP/IP Stacks
- Demo: Configure Port Mirroring
- Demo: Configure Netflow
- vCenter Single Sign-On
- Demo: Configure vCenter SSO
- Demo: Configure Roles and Permissions
- Demo: Secure VMs
- Demo: Configure Encrypted vMotion
- Demo: Harden ESXi Hosts
- vSphere Storage Performance Overview
- VMFS and NFS Datastores
- NFS 3 and NFS 4.1 Datastores
- Demo - Create an NFS Datastore in vSphere 6.5
- Introduction to iSCSI
- Software iSCSI
- Demo: Configure Software iSCSI on an ESXi Host
- Demo: Create a VMFS Datastore on iSCSI
- Dependent Hardware iSCSI Initiators and ESXi
- Independent Hardware iSCSI Initiators and ESXi
- Demo: Verify ESXi Host Storage Configuration
- Review: Storage DRS for Datastore Clusters
- Introduction to vSAN (Virtual SAN) - Disk Groups, Hybrid, and All-Flash
- vSAN Network and Object Storage
- Demo: Working with Virtual SAN (vSAN)
- Virtual Volumes (VVOL)
- Demo - Storage Multipathing Plugins (NMP, SATP, MPP)
- Demo: Storage IO Control (SIOC) on VMFS Datastores
- VMFS Metadata Consistency
- Introduction to Update Manager
- Demo: Update Manager 6.5 Configuration
- Demo: Using Update Manager 6.5 to Perform Updates
- Demo: Install VMware Tools on vSpher 6.5 Virtual Machines
- Demo: Update VMware Tools on vSphere 6.5 Virtual Machines
- Demo: Update Virtual Hardware on vSphere 6.5 Virtual Machine
- ESXi Upgrade Methods for vSphere 6.5 and 6.7
- Demo: Upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5
- Demo: Upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 with Update Manager
- Demo: Upgrade Windows vCenter 6 to Windows vCenter 6.5
- Demo: Migrate vCenter for Windows to vCSA 6.7
- Demo: Deploy VMs from Template
- Demo - Create Content Libraries with vCenter 6.5
- Using Auto Deploy to Image ESXi 6.5 Hosts
- Host Profiles with ESXi 6.5
- Working with VMX Files and vSphere 6.5 VMs
- Demo - Create a vSphere 6.5 Virtual Machine (VM)
- Demo: Advanced VM Settings in vSphere 6.5
- Demo - Deploying VMs using vCenter Converter 6.5
- Demo - Verify Virtual Machine (VM) Resource Configuration
- Resource Pools and vApps
- Demo: Create Resource Pools
- Demo: Expandable Reservations and Resource Pools in vSphere 6.5
- Demo: Configure vApps for Multi-Tier Applications in vSphere 6.5
- DRS in vSphere 6.5 - What's New?
- Demo: Create a DRS Cluster in vSphere 6.5
- Demo: DRS Affinity Rules and VM Overrides in vSphere 6.5
- Demo: Avoiding Outages with DRS and Maintenance Mode in vSphere 6.5
- Demo: DRS Host Cluster Monitoring using vCenter 6.5
- Troubleshooting using ESXi 6.5 Management Agents
- Demo - Collect vSphere Diagnostic Data
- Demo - Create vSphere 6.5 Log Bundles
- vSphere Data Protection EOA
- vSphere Data Protection
- Review Demo: HA Configuration in vSphere 6.5
- HA and VMCP in vSphere 6.5
- Bonus Lecture