EDU-VSFBMO: VMware vSphere Foundation: Build, Manage, and Operate

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics.
• Course objectives

Module 2: VMware vSphere Foundation Overview and Architecture

• Define the vSphere Foundation key features
• Explain vSphere Foundation use cases
• Explain the architecture of vSphere Foundation
• Explore the components of vSphere Foundation
• Introduction to VCF Operations
• List the steps to navigate the VCF Operations UI and vSphere UI

Module 3: License Management

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

Module 4: 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

Module 5: 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

Module 6: 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

Module 7: 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.

Module 8: Virtual Machine Management

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

Module 9: Deploying and Configuring 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.

Module 10: 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.

Module 11: vSphere Kubernetes Service Overview

• 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.

Module 12: VCF Operations Metrics

• 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.

Module 13: 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 VCF Installer UI and JSON spec file.
• Deploy and enable VCF Operations collector, VCF Operations for Logs, and VCF Operations Orchestrator.
• Deploy vCenter Server Appliance.

Module 14: Managing the vSphere Foundation Lifecycle