Course Overview

This five-day course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in deploying, configuring and managing VMware vSphere Foundation. You will learn about the architecture of vSphere Foundation, compute, storage, networks and licensing.

This course prepares you to administer a vSphere Foundation, which includes VCF Operations 9.0, vCenter 9.0, and ESX 9.0.

What are the skills covered

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

Define the key features, use cases, and capabilities of vSphere Foundation
Navigate 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 enabled with VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
Analyze the placement of VM objects and components in the vSAN cluster
Create 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