CERTIFICATS

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

• 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

• 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

• Describe the vCenter Server architecture
• Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter 
Server
• Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
• Use 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 VMware vCenter Server® High Availability to 
protect a vCenter Server Appliance 

• 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

• 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

• 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 the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility feature
• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
• Examine the features and functions of VMware 
vSphere® Replication™ 
• Describe the benefits of VMware vSphere® Storage 
APIs – Data Protection

• 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

• 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

• 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