Cert Prep: VMware Certified Associate (VCA-DBT)
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
This course helps you prepare to earn your VMware vSphere 8 Certified Technical Associate - Data Center Virtualization certification.
Syllabus
1. Introduction to vSphere 8
- Introduction
- Introduction to virtualization
- The four food groups of VMs
- VM files and live states
- SDDCs and the cloud
- Types of hypervisors
- Introduction to vCenter 8
- vCenter 8 Enhanced Linked Mode
- Introduction
- Installing ESXi 8
- ESXi configuration maximums
- Free hands-on labs from VMware
- About my lab environment
- Demo: Installing ESXi 8 using interactive installation
- Demo: Create a datastore using the host client
- Deploy the vCenter Server Appliance 8
- Demo: vCenter 8 VAMI
- Demo: Add ESXi hosts to vCenter inventory
- Licensing, pricing, and packaging for vSphere 8
- Demo: Licensing vCenter and ESXi
- Demo: Basic ESXi configuration with the host client
- Demo: Create a content library
- VMware flings
- Introduction
- Virtual networking concepts
- vSphere Standard Switches: Failure detection
- vSphere Standard Switches: NIC teaming
- vSphere Standard Switches: Traffic shaping
- vSphere Standard Switches: Security settings
- vSphere Standard Switches: Multiple TCP/IP stacks
- Demo: Create a vSphere 8 Standard Switch
- Demo: Configure vSphere Standard Switch
- Demo: Migrate a VMkernel port to a different virtual switch
- Demo: Configure port groups and VMkernel ports
- vSphere Distributed Switches: Scalability
- vSphere Distributed Switch review
- Demo: Create a vSphere 8 Distributed Switch
- Virtual switch features: CDP and LLDP
- Demo: Basic settings for a vSphere Distributed Switch
- vSphere Distributed Switches: Private VLANs
- Demo: Configuring private VLANs
- vSphere Distributed Switches: NIC teaming
- Virtual switch features: Network I/O Control
- Demo: Configure Network I/O Control
- Virtual switch features: Filtering and tagging
- Virtual switch features: Netflow
- Demo: Configure Netflow
- Virtual switch features: Port mirroring
- Demo: Configure port mirroring
- Network health check
- Demo: vSphere Distributed Switch health check
- Virtual switch features: Host-level rollback
- Virtual switch features: Distributed Switch rollback
- Virtual switch feature review
- Introduction
- Storage virtualization concepts
- VMFS and NFS concepts
- NFS v3 and version 4.1
- Demo: Create an NFS Datastore
- Fiber Channel storage
- LUN masking and zoning
- Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
- iSCSI storage concepts
- Demo: Configure iSCSI
- Introduction to vSAN
- vSAN vs. traditional storage
- vSAN Express Storage Architecture
- Storage configuration maximums
- Introduction
- Demo: Create a VM in vSphere 8
- Demo: Install VMware tools in vSphere 8
- Demo: Upgrade VMware tools on vSphere VMs
- Demo: Inflate a thin-provisioned disk
- Demo: Create a vApp in vSphere
- Demo: Working with templates in vSphere 8
- Demo: Clone a VM in vSphere
- Demo: Import an OVF template in vSphere
- Snapshots
- Demo: Working with snapshots in vSphere
- Demo: Managing VM templates in a content library
- VM configuration maximums
- Introduction
- Migrating VMs with vMotion
- Demo: Configuring vMotion in vSphere
- Demo: Performing a vMotion migration in vSphere
- Demo: Configure a scheduled vMotion in vSphere
- Storage vMotion concepts
- Demo: Performing a Storage vMotion in vSphere
- Demo: Shared-nothing vMotion in vSphere
- vMotion Configuration maximums
- vMotion enhancement in vSphere
- Introduction
- vSphere availability resources
- Basic vSphere High Availability architecture
- HA datastore heartbeats and host isolation
- HA failure scenarios
- Demo: Basic High Availability configuration in vSphere
- vCenter High Availability for vSphere 8
- Demo: Deploy vCenter High Availability (vCHA)
- Demo: vCenter manual backup to an SMB share
- Demo: vCenter scheduled backups and retention policies
- Zero-downtime failover with Fault Tolerance (FT)
- Demo: Fault Tolerance in vSphere
- Introduction
- vSphere Resource Management
- Understanding vSphere resource pools
- Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) concepts
- DRS: What's New in vSphere 7 and 8?
- DRS Affinity Rules
- DRS and vCenter
- DRS and maintenance mode
- DRS and automation levels
- DRS and resource fragmentation
- Demo: Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) in vSphere 8
Taught by
Rick Crisci
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