Getting Started
- Introduction
- Getting Certified by VMware
Objective 1 - vSphere 6.5 Basics
- vSphere Licensing Editions
- Virtualization Basics
- vCenter and the Platform Services Controller
- What's New in vCenter 6.5
- Demo: Deploy vCenter Appliance 6.5
- Demo: Licensing vCenter and ESXi
- Demo: ESXi Installation
- Demo: Basic ESXi Configuration
- Content Libraries
- Update Manager
- Demo - Update Manager
Objective 2: vSphere Networking
- Virtual Networking
- vSphere Standard Switches
- vSphere Distributed Switches
- Virtual Switch Features
- Demo - Create a vSphere Standard Switch
- Bonus Lecture - Understanding MTU
- Demo - Create a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Demo - Configure Virtual Switch Features
Objective 3: Manage vSphere Storage
- Storage Virtualization
- VMFS vs. NFS
- NFS version 3 vs. 4.1
- Demo: Create an NFS Datastore
- Fiber Channel Storage
- LUN Masking
- Zoning
- Fiber Channel over Ethernet
- iSCSI Storage
- Software iSCSI
- Dependent Hardware iSCSI
- Independent Hardware iSCSI Initiator
- iSCSI Target Discovery
- Virtual SAN (VSAN) Part 1
- Virtual SAN (VSAN) Part 2
Objective 4: VMs and vApps
- Demo: Create a VM
- Demo: Install VMware Tools
- Demo: Inflate a thin-provisioned disk
- Demo: Create a vApp
- Demo: Working with Templates
- Demo: Clone a VM
- Demo: Import an OVF Template
- Snapshots
Wrap up and Next Steps
- Bonus Lecture
