This course provides a fundamental understanding of VMware’s Data Center Virtualization products. The course also takes you through the components and features of vSphere 6.5, and shows how the vSphere 6.5 product line helps resolve business and IT challenges commonly faced by organizations.
Outline:
1. Course Introduction
- Course Introduction
- Course Objectives
- Course Outline
2. Introduction to Data Center Virtualization with VMware vSphere
- Module Objectives
- VMware’s Integrated Architecture Vision
- VMware’s Integrated Architecture Vision (cont’d)
- VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture
- Virtualization Overview
- Virtualization Overview (Cont’d)
- Data Center Virtualization
- Need for Data Center Virtualization
- Need for Data Center Virtualization (Cont’d)
- Introduction to Virtual Machines
- Virtual Machine Capabilities
- Benefits of Using Virtual Machines
- Benefits of Using Virtual Machines (Cont’d)
- Hypervisor
- vSphere ESXi Hypervisor
- vSphere 6.5 - The ideal Foundation of Any Unified Cloud Environment
- Capabilities of vSphere 6.5
- Capabilities of vSphere 6.5 (Cont’d)
- Benefits of vSphere 6.5
- Review of Module Objectives
3. Components of VMware vSphere
- Module Objectives
- vSphere 6.5: Overview
- vSphere 6.5 Architecture
- Topology of vSphere 6.5 Data Center
- vSphere 6.5 Configuration Maximums
- vCenter Server
- vCenter Server Features
- vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 Feature Benefits
- vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 – Exclusive Features
- Migration Tool
- vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 Operational Advantages
- vSphere Management Interfaces
- Shared Storage
- Storage Protocols
- Datastores
- VMware vSAN
- Virtual Volumes
- Networking Features in vSphere
- Virtual Networking
- Virtual Networking
- Virtual Switches
- vSphere Standard Switches
- vSphere Distributed Switches
- Introduction to NSX
- Security Features in vSphere
- vSphere Resource Management Features
- vMotion
- Distributed Resource Scheduler
- Predictive DRS
- Network Aware DRS
- DPM
- Storage vMotion
- Storage DRS
- Storage I/O Control
- Network I/O Control
- vSphere Availability Features
- High Availability
- vSphere HA Orchestrated Restart
- Proactive High Availability
- Fault Tolerance
- vSphere Replication
- vSphere 6.5 Universal App Platform
- vSphere Integrated Containers
- vSphere Integrated Containers – How it works
- Key Benefits of vSphere Integrated Containers
- Data Center Virtualization Products: Overview
- vSphere with Operations Management: Introduction
- vSphere with Operations Management: Overview
- vSphere with Operations Management: Features
- vSphere with Operations Management: Capabilities
- vSphere with Operations Management: Capabilities (cont’d)
- vSphere with Operations Management Benefits to Customers/Organizations
- vRealize Suite
- Software-Defined Storage - VSAN
- Software-Defined Networking - NSX
- VMware Hyper-Converged Software Offerings
- VMware Integrated OpenStack
- Cloud Services - vCloud Air
- Introducing VMware Cloud Foundation
- VMware Cloud Foundation - SDDC Manager
- VMware Cloud Foundation – Building the Private Cloud
- VMware Cloud Foundation Benefits
- VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Review of Module Objectives
4. vSphere Solutions to Data Center Challenges
- Module Objectives
- Data Center Challenges
- Availability Challenges
- Scalability Challenges
- Management Challenges
- Optimization Challenges
- Application Upgrade Challenges
- Cloud Challenges
- vSphere Features based on License Edition
- vSphere Features based on License Edition (cont’d)
- Review of Module Objectives
