CONTENIDO
 
IMPORTANTE: Este curso está basado en un curso oficial de VMWARE, por lo que lo prepara de una manera óptima para tomar el examen de certificación. 
 
Módulo 1  Course Introduction 
Introductions and course logistics 
Course objectives 
 
Módulo 2  Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center 
Explain basic virtualization concepts 
Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure 
Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage 
Recognize the user interfaces for accessing the vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts 
Describe the ESXi host architecture 
Navigate the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) to configure an ESXi host 
Recognize ESXi host user account best practices 
Install an ESXi host 
Use VMware Host Client™ to configure ESXi host settings 
Describe how to proactively manage your vSphere environment using VMware Skyline 
 
Módulo 3  Virtual Machines 
Create and provision a virtual machine 
Explain the importance of VMware Tools™ 
Install VMware Tools 
Identify the files that make up a VM 
Recognize the components of a VM 
Recognize virtual devices supported by a VM 
Describe the benefits and use cases for containers 
Identify the parts of a container system 
 
Módulo 4  vCenter Server 
Describe the vCenter Server architecture 
Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server 
Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance 
Use the vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory 
Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server 
Use roles and permissions to enable users to access objects in the vCenter Server inventory 
Back up vCenter Server Appliance 
Monitor vCenter Server tasks, events, and appliance health 
Use vCenter Server High Availability to protect a vCenter Server Appliance 
 
Módulo 5  Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks 
Create and manage standard switches 
Describe the virtual switch connection types 
Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping and load-balancing policies 
Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches 
 
Módulo 6  Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage 
Identify storage protocols and storage device types 
Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage 
Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores 
Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage 
Recognize the components of a VMware vSAN™ configuration 
 
Móduo 7  Virtual Machine Management 
Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines 
Modify and manage virtual machines 
Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library 
Use customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine 
Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations 
Describe Enhanced vMotion Compatibility 
Create and manage virtual machine snapshots 
Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Replication™ 
Describe the benefits of vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection 
 
Módulo 8  Resource Management and Monitoring 
Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment 
Describe what overcommitment of a resource means 
Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage 
Use various tools to monitor resource use 
Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events 
 
Módulo 9  vSphere Clusters 
Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster 
Create a vSphere DRS cluster 
Monitor a vSphere cluster configuration 
Describe options for making a vSphere environment highly available 
Explain the vSphere HA architecture 
Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster 
Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance 
Describe the function of the vSphere® Cluster Service 
 
Módulo 10  Network Scalability 
Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches 
Describe how VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control enhances performance 
Explain distributed switch features such as port mirroring and NetFlow 
 
Módulo 11  vSphere Lifecycle Management 
Recognize the importance of vCenter Server Update Planner 
Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works 
Describe how to update ESXi hosts using baselines 
Validate ESXi host compliance using a cluster image 
Describe how to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware 
Describe VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ and VMware vSAN™ integration 
 
Módulo 12  Host and Management Scalability 
Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance 
Create and manage resource pools in a cluster 
Describe how scalable shares work 
 
Módulo 13  Storage Scalability 
Explain why VMware vSphere® VMFS is a high-performance, scalable file system 
Explain VMware vSphere® Storage APIs - Array Integration, VMware vSphere® API for Storage Awareness™, and vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering 
Configure and assign virtual machine storage policies 
Create VMware vSAN™ storage policies 
Recognize components of the vSphere Virtual Volumes architecture 
Configure VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ and VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control