VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0 Administrator (2V0-16.25) Cert Prep

Course details

Dive into the comprehensive world of VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0. Start by exploring IT architectures, technologies, and standards to build a solid framework for your understanding. Learn about the ins and outs of VMware products and solutions, focusing on core areas like deployment, configuration, and management of vSphere environments. Discover practical strategies to plan and design VMware solutions, ensuring you're prepared for real-world scenarios. This course is designed for IT professionals with one year of experience and knowledge in enterprise IT topics, including compute, storage, networking, and security. In addition, the course is aligned with the VMware certification exam objectives, helping you build the knowledge and confidence needed to successfully pass the VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator (2V0-16.25) exam. By the end of the course, you will be prepared to effectively manage a vSphere Foundation-based solution, optimized for both supervisor-based and virtual machine workloads.

Concepts

Introduction

Course goals and who this course is for
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Course Overview and Exam Strategy

Understanding VMware certification
VMware licensing models
What we will deploy
VMUG EvalExperience program changes

Virtualization Fundamentals and Core Concepts

Introduction to virtualization
The four food groups of VMs
VM files and live state
SDDCs and the cloud
Types of hypervisors
Introduction to vCenter 9

Installing the Core vSphere Foundation Stack

Preparing to install ESXi 9
Running ESXi as a VM in VMware Workstation
Installing ESXi 9 using interactive installation
Create a local datastore using the host client
Deploy vCenter VCSA 9
Add an ESXi host to vCenter 9 VCSA
Create content libraries in vSphere 9

Configure and Manage vSphere Networking

Virtual networking concepts
vSphere standard switches - Failure detection
vSphere standard switches - NIC teaming
vSphere standard switches - Traffic shaping
Demo - Create a vSphere 9 standard switch
Distributed switches and scalability
Demo - Create a vSphere 9 distributed switch
vSphere distributed switch NIC teaming
Demo - Configure network IO control

Configure and Manage Storage in vSphere Foundation

Storage virtualization concepts
VMFS and NFS
Fibre Channel
iSCSI concepts
Demo - Connect an ESXi host to iSCSI
Demo - Create a VMFS datastore using iSCSI
Demo - Storage port bindings and multipathing policies
Introduction to vSAN
vSAN Express storage architecture
vSAN storage policies (FTT, RAID)
Deduplication & compression
Configure vSAN networking
Create a vSAN cluster

Deploy and Administer Virtual Machines

Demo - Create a VM in vSphere 9
Demo - Install VMware Tools on a VM
Snapshots in vSphere 9
Deploying OVAs via vSphere client

vMotion and Workload Mobility

vMotion concepts
Storage vMotion
Demo - Configure vMotion requirements
Demo - vMotion
Demo - Shared nothing vMotion

vSphere High Availability

HA architecture overview
HA datastore heartbeats and host isolation in vSphere 9
HA failure scenarios in vSphere 9
Demo - Basic high availability configuration in vSphere 9

Resource Management and DRS

Resource pools
Shares (fixed vs. scalable)
DRS concepts
DRS automation levels
DRS affinity rules maintenance
Mode behavior.wav

VMware Cloud Foundation Operations (VCF Operations)

Introduction to VMware Cloud Foundation operations
VCF operations architecture
Integrating VCF operations with vCenter
Deploy VCF operations
Demo - Integrate VCF operations with vCenter
Alerts, symptoms, and policies
Demo - Create alerts and policies
Demo - Build dashboards and views
Views, dashboards, and reports review
Capacity planning and forecasting