Overview
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Learn the essentials of configuring virtual networking, storage, and machines in vSphere 6.5.
Syllabus
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1. Introduction
- Introduction
- Getting certified
- Connect and get recognized
- vSphere license editions
- Virtualization basics
- vCenter and the Platform Services Controller (PSC)
- What's new in vCenter 6.5
- Deploy vCenter Service Appliance (vCSA) 6.5
- Licensing vCenter and ESXi
- Demo: ESXi installation
- Demo: Basic ESXi configuration
- Content libraries
- Update Manager
- Demo: Update Manager
- Virtual networking
- vSphere standard switches
- vSphere distributed switches
- Virtual switch features
- Demo: Create a vSphere standard switch
- Demo: Create a vSphere distributed switch
- Demo: Create vSphere distributed switch features
- Storage virtualization
- VMFS vs. NFS
- NFS 3 vs. NFS 4.1
- Demo: Create an NFS data store
- Fibre Channel storage
- LUN masking
- Zoning
- Fibre Channel over ethernet
- iSCSI storage
- Software iSCSI
- Dependent hardware iSCSI
- Independent hardware iSCSI Initiator
- iSCSI target discovery
- Demo: Dynamic discovery
- vSAN, part 1
- vSAN, part 2
- Demo: Create a virtual machine (VM)
- Demo: Install VMware tools
- Demo: Inflate a thin-provisioned disk
- Demo: Create a vApp
- Demo: Working with templates
- Demo: Clone a VM
- Demo: Import an OVF template
- Snapshots
