This MCIT course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere®, which includes VMware ESXi™ and VMware vCenter Server®. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. This course is the foundation for most of the other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center
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• 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
Have a High School Diploma or equivalent, Complete an interview with a member of our Admissions Team, Commit to program and job search requirements.
Upon completing this course, you will receive an industry-recognized certificate from MCIT. This certificate helps you prepare yourself to confidently take the official VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2021 (VCP-DCV 2021). Once you complete this exam, you will earn your official VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2021 (VCP-DCV 2021) certification.