WEEK 1 Get Started with VMware Virtualization 151 min.

What is Virtualization? 13

VMware Certified Identifying the Benefits of Virtualization

Preparing Your Computer for Virtualization
8
15

Professional - Data Center Creating a Virtual Machine in Workstation Player

Installing the Operating System
18
13

Virtualization 2024 Explore the VMware SDDC: Compute Virtualization

(VCP-DCV 2024) Introduction 2

Problems with Traditional Data Center Designs 10
The Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC) 13
This VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2024
Compute Virtualization with vSphere 12
(VCP-DCV 2024) vSphere 8 training covers how to manage, deploy, &
Storage Virtualization with vSAN 5
troubleshoot vSphere 8 environments for virtual machines. VMware
Transitioning to an SDDC: Is It Worth It? 5
makes some of the world's most popular virtualization technology,
and if you want a career maintaining and operating it, or architecting SDDC: Non-Compute Virtualization
networks that rely on it, you should plan on earning one of their Introduction 2
certifications. Network Virtualization with NSX 10
Orchestration with Aria 8
CBT Nuggets course material
Disaster Recovery with SRM 9
Exploring Licensing Models 8

WEEK 2 154 min.

Enhanced Support with Skyline 11

Plan a vSphere 8 Deployment: ESXi

Introduction 3
 The "Supporting Cast" 11 Install ESXi Lab Walkthrough 7
Identifying ESXi System Requirements 11
Installing a vCenter 8 Server
ESXi OS Storage Requirements 9
Preparing an ESXi Host 9 Introduction 1

ESXi Host Resiliency 6 vCenter 8 Overview 5

Game Plan for vCenter Server Appliance 6
Plan a vSphere 8 Deployment: vCenter Initial Install of vCSA (Stage 1) 11
Introduction 2 Initial Configuration of vCSA (Stage 2) 4
vCenter Components 13 GUI Interfaces for vCSA 12
vCenter Sizing 9 Licenses, Backups, and Upgrades 5
vCenter CPU and RAM Requirements 7 Hands On Lab: Deploy vCSA 6
vCenter Storage Requirements 8
Create a Nested vSphere 8 Lab
vCenter Networking Requirements 11
Structuring the vCenter Inventory 14 Introduction 1

Enhanced Linked Mode 9 Overview for Nested vSphere Lab 9

vCenter Server Backups 9 Prepare Networking on ESXi Hosting the Lab 15

Deploy ESXi Nested VMs on Parent Host 12
Installing vSphere ESXi v8 Hosts Deploy Management PC as VM on Parent Host 10
Introduction 1 Create Datastores on Each Nested Host 6
ESXi Interactive Install Game Plan 11 Deploy vCSA on Parent ESXi Host 7

WEEK 3 157 min. WEEK 4 151 min.

Interactive Install of ESXi 8 11 Add Nested ESXi Hosts to vCSA 5
Initial ESXi Configuration Using DCUI 8 Add a VM to Test Nested vSphere 8 Lab 7
Using the ESXi Host Client (GUI) 7
Basics of Virtual Switching in vSphere 8
Default Virtual Switch 3
Create a Local Datastore 3 Introduction 2

Lab: Install ESXi 8 8 Reviewing Physical Switching 12

 Connecting...What to the Network? 12 Hands on Lab Walkthrough 12
Establishing the Prerequisites 10
Identify Virtual Machine Settings in vSphere 8
Standard vs. Distributed Switches 9
Standard Switch Components 6 Introduction 2

Distributed Switch Components 13 The Big Picture of a vSphere VM 10

How vSwitches Forward Traffic 6 VM Compatibility and Guest OS Profiles 13

Virtual Machine CPU 21
Configuring vSphere 8 Standard Switches (vSS) Virtual Machine Memory 11
Introduction 1 Virtual Machine Storage 15
vSphere Standard Switch Overview 18 Virtual NICs 10
Standard vSwitch Housekeeping and Game Plan 16 Virtual Machine Peripheral Devices 5
Fault Tolerant Uplinks 4
Design Virtual Machines in vSphere 8
New VM Port Groups with No VLAN Tagging 5
New VM Port Groups Associated with a VLAN 3 Introduction 2

Creating New VMkernel and Port Group 5 VM File Structure 14

Creating a New Standard Switch 9

Hands on Lab: vSphere Standard Switch Networking 7

WEEK 6 165 min.

Deploying vSphere 8 Distributed Switches (vDS)
Design Scenario 5
Intro to vSphere 8 Virtual Distributed Switches 1 Creating Virtual Machines From Scratch 8
(vDS)
Cloning Virtual Machines 9
Working With Packaged VMs 14
Migrating Workloads to vSphere 15
WEEK 5 153 min. VMware Tools 8
Overview of vSphere 8 Distributed Switches 7
vDS Game Plan 3 Deploying VMs in vSphere 8
Adding New Standard Switch and VM 7 introduction 1
Creating vDS for ESXi Host Management 8 Deploying VMs Overview 4
Creating vDS for Guest VMs 6 Creating a New VM 13
Hands on Lab: vDS 7
 Clone a VM From an Existing VM 7 VMkernel Adapter TCP/IP Configuration 7
Create a VM from a Template 6 Host Routing and DNS Configuration 16
Create a Template from a VM 5 Utilizing Additional Network Stacks 8
Convert Between VMs and Templates 3
Managing vSphere 8 vDS Networking
Create a Template from a Template 2
Export a Template from a VM (OVF) 4 Introduction 1

Hands on Lab: Deploying VMs 7 vDS Features and Management Overview 10

Hands on Lab Walkthrough 10 Network Recovery 11

vDS Centralized Network Management 14
Explore Basic Forwarding Policies in vSphere 8

Introduction 2
Basic DPG Settings 13 WEEK 8 156 min.
VLAN Tagging 12 Modifying Multiple Port Groups 5
Uplink Policies 17 Port Based Overrides 5
VMkernel Migration 5
Hands on Lab: Managing vDS 8

WEEK 7 Explore Advanced Network Policies in vSphere 8 155 min.

vSphere 8 vDS Blocking, Mirroring, & Private VLANs
Introduction 2
Intro to vDS Blocking, Mirroring, and Private 1
VDS Offloading 11 VLANs
Security Policies 14 Blocking, Mirroring, and PVLANs Overview 5
MAC Learning 13 vDS Port Blocking 5
Traffic Shaping 13 vDS Port Mirroring 9
Hands-On Lab 9 Private VLANs Game Plan 5
Supplemental Files 1 Implement Private VLANs 4
Adding VMs and Testing PVLANs 13
Host Networking Configurations in vSphere 8
Hands on Lab: Blocking, Mirroring, PVLANs 7
Introduction 2
Basic vSwitch Settings 11 Control Network Traffic in vSphere 8
The Anatomy of a VMkernel Adapter 12 Introduction 3
 Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) in vSphere 8
What Is Network I/O Control? 11
Introduction 1
Shares, Reservations, and Limits 12
How Does DRS Work? 10
Applying NIOC to System Traffic 11
Leveraging DRS Metrics 16
Testing System Traffic Performance 11
Applying NIOC to VM Traffic 14
Testing VM Admission Control 9
WEEK 10 152 min.
Testing VM Performance 13
Tuning DRS Migrations 18
Designing Affinity Rules 17

WEEK 9 158 min. Using vSphere 8 Distributed Resource Scheduler

Hands-On Lab 7 Introduction 1
Supplemental Files 1 Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) Overview 7
Game Plan for DRS 4
Explore Clusters in vSphere 8
Networking for vMotion 8
Introduction 2
Verifying vMotion 11
Why Cluster? 8
Implement DRS on the Cluster 7
Designing Clusters 16
Testing Manual DRS 6
Identifying Cluster Features 11
Testing Partially Automated DRS 5
Describing vSphere Cluster Services 9
Testing Fully Automated DRS 10
Creating Clusters 14
Hands on Lab: DRS 6

Design Resource Migration in vSphere 8

Using DRS Affinity Rules in vSphere 8
Introduction 2
Intro to DRS Cluster Affinity Rules 1
Identifying Migration Scenarios 9
DRS Cluster Affinity Overview 5
Migration Types 11
DRS Cluster Affinity Game Plan 4
Hot and Cold Migrations 14
VM-VM Affinity Rules 8
Describing Compute and Storage Requirements 14
VM-VM Anti-Affinity Rules 4
Describing Network Requirements 13
VM-Host Affinity Rules 9
VM-Host Anti-Affinity 6
 Hands On Lab DRS Affinity 7 VM Fault Tolerance Overview 7
Hands On Lab Affinity Rules Walkthrough 6 VM Fault Tolerance Game Plan 4
Networking Prep for FT VMs 6
Describe High Availability Features in vSphere 8
Add Affinity Rule 7
Introduction 2 Enable Fault Tolerance for a VM 3
Troubleshoot FT 10

WEEK 11 160 min.

Building Redundant VMs with vSphere HA 12 WEEK 12 152 min.
Handling Network and Host Failures 17 Testing and Managing VM FT 7
Handling Storage Failures 11 Fault Tolerance Hands on Lab 8
Handling VM and Application Failures 7
Maintaining Continuous VM Availability 9 Using vCenter HA with vSphere 8

Shielding vCenter From Failures 1 Intro to vCenter Server High Availability 1

Replicating Workloads 5 vCenter Server HA Overview 12
vCenter High Availability Game Plan 5
Using vSphere 8 High Availability
Making vmnic1 Available 5
Intro to vSphere High Availability 1 Add New Port Group for vCenter HA 2
vSphere High Availability (HA) Overview 9 Configure vCenter Server HA 15
Enable vSphere High Availability 7 Testing the vCenter Server HA 10
Setting vSphere HA Advanced Options 6 Hands on Lab - vCenter Server HA 7
Testing vSphere HA 10 vCenter Server HA Lab Walkthrough 11
HA Failure Conditions and Responses 9
VM Restarts and Overrides 5 Examine Storage Architecture in vSphere 8

HA Admission Control 6 Introduction 2

vSphere HA Hands On Lab 7 Components of vSphere Storage 10
Storage Access Protocols 7
Using vSphere 8 Fault Tolerance (FT)
Utilizing Local Storage 12
Intro to Fault Tolerance for VMs 1 Designing Network Storage 13
 Exploring Block Storage Protocols 7 Add iSCSI Target 6
Leveraging NFS 4

Advanced Storage Technologies in vSphere 8

WEEK 14 152 min.
Introduction 1 Create Datastore and Test 8
Mapping Physical Disks to VMs 13 Hands On Lab: iSCSI Datastores 6

Implementing vSphere 8 iSCSI Multipathing

WEEK 13 156 min. Introduction 1

Leveraging PMem 14 iSCSI Multipathing Overview 13
Describing RDMA 16 iSCSI Multipath Game Plan 5
Exploring SPBM 11 Create vDS for Path B 6
Create Additional VMkernel Adapters 6
Describe External Storage Integration in vSphere 8
Migrate to Single vDS 9
Introduction 2 Bind VMkernel Adapters to iSCSI HBA 8
Improving Storage Awareness 14 Update the Multipathing Policy to Round Robin 5
Leveraging Array Integration 17 Hands On Lab: iSCSI Multipathing 7
Enhancing Data Protection 5 Hands On Lab Walkthrough 5
Describing Storage Multipathing 20
Leveraging vVols 21 Using vSphere 8 NFS Datastores

Intro to NFS Datastores 1

Configure vSphere 8 iSCSI Network Storage
NFS Datastore Overview 10
Introduction 1 Game Plan for NFS Datastore 3
iSCSI Storage Overview 4 Preparing the NFS Share 4
iSCSI Game Plan 4 Confirm VMkernel Networking for NFS 5
Setup iSCSI Target 4 Adding NFS Datastores 11
Create a Distributed Switch for iSCSI 5 Testing the NFS Datastore 6
Add VMkernel Adapters 6 Hands on Lab: NFS Datastores 6
Create iSCSI Adapter 6 NFS Datastore Lab Walkthrough 6
 Design a vSAN Deployment in vSphere 8
Creating a VMFS Datastore 4
Introduction 3
Expanding a Datastore 4
What Makes vSAN Cool? 7
Storage Migration 7
How Does vSAN Store Data? 11

WEEK 16 154 min.

WEEK 15 151 min.
Enable RR for New iSCSI Datastore 11
vSAN Storage Architectures: OSA 12
Lab - Managing Storage 6
vSAN Storage Architectures: ESA 6
Manage Storage Lab Walkthrough 8
Planning vSAN Clusters 20
vSAN Failure Handling 20 Using Storage DRS and Policies

Using vSphere 8 Virtual SAN (vSAN) Intro to Storage DRS and Policies 1
Storage DRS and Policies Overview 5
Intro to vSphere 8 vSAN 1
Storage DRS and Policies Game Plan 1
vSAN Overview 9
Configure Storage DRS 12
vSAN Game Plan 5
Verifying Storage DRS 3
Uplinks and Port Groups for vSAN 6
Configure VM Storage Policies 10
VMkernel Adapters for vSAN 4
Verify VM Storage Policies 5
Creating the vSAN 8
Hands On Lab - Storage DRS and Policies 6
Testing the vSAN 4
Storage DRS and Policies Lab Walkthrough 10
Monitoring and Managing the vSAN 9
Increasing the Capacity of a vSAN 4 Optimize Storage Resources in vSphere 8
vSAN Hands on Lab 7
Introduction 2
Hands on Lab Walkthrough 9
Identifying Storage Performance Metrics 12

Managing vSphere 8 Storage Describing Storage I/O Control (SIOC) 13

Enabling Storage I/O Control (SIOC) 8
Intro to Managing vSphere Storage 1
Configuring IOPS Policies 13
Managing vSphere Storage Overview 5
Testing IOPS Policies 21
Managing Storage Game Plan 2
Hands-On Lab 7
Adding a New iSCSI Target 4
 Content Library Game Plan 4
WEEK 17 159 min. Creating a Content Library 5
Supplemental Files 1
Adding Content to the Library 9

Managing vApps in vSphere 8 Deploying VMs Using the Library 15

Content Library VM Template Versioning 10
Intro to vApps 1
vApps Overview 5
vApp Game Plan 2
Creating vApps 9 WEEK 18 158 min.
Publishing and Subscribing to Libraries 7
Configuring vApp Start Order 6
Content Library Hands-on Lab 7
Testing vApp Power Operations 5
Adding VMs to vApp 5 Using Digital Certificates in vSphere 8
Cloning a vApp 4
Intro to Digital Certificates 1
vApps and OVF Templates 6
Digital Certificates Overview 8
Configure vApp IP Allocation 6
Digital Certificate Game Plan 2
Hands on Lab - vApps 6
Renew Machine Cert from VMCA 10

Managing Resource Pools in vSphere 8 Confirm SCP to vCSA 4

Generate a CSR for vCSA 5
Intro to Managing Resource Pools 1
Import vCSA and new CA Certificate 9
Resource Pools Overview 13
Verify Certificate via vSphere Client 4
Resource Pool Game Plan 2
Hands on Lab - Digital Certificates 7
Creating Resource Pools 5
Digital Certificate Lab Walk Through 7
Verifying Results of Resource Pools 10
Modifying Shares 7 Using vSphere 8 Events and Alarms
Setting CPU Reservations 9
Intro to Events and Alarms 1
Resource Pool Hands on Lab 6
Events and Alarms Overview 6

Using vSphere 8 Content Libraries Viewing Events 9

Alarm Definitions 5
Intro to Content Libraries 1
Editing Alarm Definitions 9
Content Library Overview 6
 Creating Custom Alarm Definitions 11 Updating ESXi Hosts and vCenter 9
Exempting Objects from Alarm Actions 5 Monitor Resources in vSphere 7
vSphere Alarms Hands on Lab 7 Using esxitop 5
Locate and View Log Files 7
Using Snapshots in vSphere 8
Generate a Log Bundle 4
Snapshot Overview 10 Validation 7
Snapshot a Powered Off VM 10
Snapshot a Powered On VM 6 Managing vSphere 8 Host Profiles

Multiple Snapshots, Single Branch 8 Intro to vSphere 8 Host Profiles 1

Host Profile Overview 6
Host Profile Game Plan 3

WEEK 19 153 min. Preparing the Reference Host 3

Multiple Snapshots, Multiple Branches 13 Creating an Initial Host Profile 3

Snapshots and VM Hardware 4

Snapshot Hands on Lab 7

WEEK 20 155 min.

Using vSphere 8 Authentication and Access Control
Attaching a Host Profile 4
Intro to Authentication and Access Control 1 Compliance Checks and Remediation 9
Authentication and Access Control Overview 14 Updating a Host Profile 14
Authentication and Access Control Game Plan 5 Hands on Lab 8
Using LDAP as an Identity Source 7 Host Profile Lab Walkthrough 8
Testing LDAP Authentication 13
Assign an AD Group Permissions 8 Using vSphere 8 Lifecycle Manager

Authentication and Authorization Hands on Lab 6 Intro to vSphere Lifecycle Manager 1

Authentication and Authorization Lab Walkthrough 11 vSphere Lifecycle Manager Overview 4
Lifecycle Manager Game Plan 2
Maintain a vSphere 8 Deployment
Installing VMware Tools 14
Introduction to Maintaining a vSphere Deployment 1 Updating VMware Tools 7
Overview 8 Updating VM Hardware Version 6
 Updating ESXi Hosts 10 Preparing the Lab Environment 16
Lifecycle Manager Hands On Lab 7 Preparing the Management Workstation 15
Lifecycle Manager Lab Walkthrough 7 Validating Initial Functionality 12
Supplemental Files 1
Secure Virtual Machines in vSphere 8

Introduction to Securing VMs in vSphere 8 1 Deploy the vSphere 8 Trust Authority

Securing VMs Overview 7 Introduction 1

Enable Key Management Services in vCenter 3 Exporting Trusted Cluster Information 14
Enable Host Encryption Mode 1 Configuring the Trust Authority Cluster 16
Encrypting VMs 6 Creating the Trusted Relationship 6
Deploy a Windows VM with Encryption 7 Verifying vTA Functionality 13
Viewing and Modifying Encryption on a VM 4 Supplemental Files 1
Adding a vTPM to an Existing VM 5
Prepare to Deploy vSphere 8 with Tanzu
Encryption and Migration of VMs 14
vSphere Trust Authority Overview 6 Introduction 3
What Are Containers? 11

WEEK 21 158 min.

Validating What We have Learned 2 WEEK 22 120 min.
Validation Walk-through for Customer 1 Tanzu Overview 17
Troubleshooting Scenario Tanzu Requirements 10
Preparing the Lab Environment 19
Describe the vSphere 8 Trust Authority

Introduction 4 Create a Kubernetes Cluster with Tanzu

Traditional VM Encryption 15 Introduction 1
Trust Authority Architecture 17 Provisioning the Supervisor Cluster 19
What Now? 9 Creating the Supervisor Namespace 15
Configuring the TKG Cluster 18
Prepare to Deploy the vSphere 8 Trust Authority
Deploying a Test Workload 20
Introduction 1
Supplemental Files 1

Last updated 12.3.2024