vSphere Foundation

Tag 1:

• Course Introduction
• Introduction and course logistics.
• Course objectives.


• vSphere Foundation Overview
• Define the vSphere Foundation key features.
• Explain vSphere Foundation use cases.
• Explain the architecture of vSphere Foundation.


• vSphere Foundation Deployment
• Prepare the infrastructure for VMware vSphere Foundation.
• Identify the information required for the Planning and Preparation Workbook.
• Explain the high-level steps to deploy vSphere Foundation.
• Describe the procedure for downloading the software using online and offline modes.
• Describe the vSphere Foundation workflow using the Quick Installer UI and JSON spec file.
• List the steps to navigate the VCF Operations UI.
• Deploy and enable VCF Operations collector, VCF Operations for Logs, and VCF Operations Orchestrator
• Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance.


• License Management
• Describe the process for managing and assigning licenses.
• Enable VCF Operations integration for vCenter.
• Explain license usage by product.

Tag 2:

• vSphere Foundation Compute
• Explain basic virtualization concepts.
• Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center.
• Describe vSphere architecture and use cases.
• Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere.
• Install and configure ESXi host.
• Create and organize vCenter inventory objects


• vSphere Foundation Networking
• Create and configure standard switch.
• Create and configure distributed switch.
• Differentiate between standard and distributed switches.
• Explain how to set networking policies.


• vSphere Foundation Storage
• Recognize vSphere storage technologies.
• Identify the types of vSphere datastores.
• Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing.
• Describe iSCSI components and addressing.
• Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi.
• Create and manage VMFS datastores.
• Configure and manage NFS datastores.


• Deploying Virtual Machines
• Create and provision VMs.
• Explain the importance of VMware Tools.
• Manage a virtual machine from the vSphere client.
• Manage virtual machine resources.
• List the steps to deploy virtual machines.
• Clone VMs and create customization specifications for guest operating systems.
• Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries.

Tag 3:

• Virtual Machine Management
• Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Perform snapshots operations.
• Specify CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits.


• vSphere Clusters
• Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA.
• Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster.
• Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings.
• Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures.
• Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster.
• Recognize vSphere HA design considerations.
• Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings.
• Configure a vSphere HA cluster.

Tag 4:

• vSAN Management
• Identify the features of vSAN.
• Understand the key differences between vSAN OSA and vSAN ESA.
• Explain the role of the performance leg and the capacity leg in vSAN ESA.
• Examine vSAN ESA Object health states.
• Compare how RAID-0/1/5/6 space consumption.
• Identify vSAN component states.


• vSphere Kubernetes Service
• Describe vSphere Supervisor Architecture and use cases.
• Explain vSphere Supervisor Deployment Options.
• Install vSphere Supervisor.
• Explain Supervisor Storage vSphere Zones, Networking, and Storage.
• Configuring and managing a supervisor.
• Configuring vSphere Namespaces for Hosting VKS Clusters.
• Managing vSphere Kubernetes Service Clusters.

Tag 5:

• VCF Operations
• Outline the role of metrics in VCF Operations.
• Create and configure views in VCF Operations.
• Create and configure reports in VCF Operations.
• Create and configure dashboards in VCF Operations.
• Configure widget interactions.
• Describe the purpose of using alerts.
• Identify the components of an alert definition.
• Create static symptom definitions.


• Managing the vSphere Foundation Lifecycle
• Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner.
• Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports.
• Recognize features of VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Validate and update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware