Cert Prep: VMware Certified Associate (VCA-DBT)

1. Introduction to vSphere 8

• Introduction
• Introduction to virtualization
• The four food groups of VMs
• VM files and live states
• SDDCs and the cloud
• Types of hypervisors
• Introduction to vCenter 8
• vCenter 8 Enhanced Linked Mode

2. Configure and Manage vSphere and ESXi 8

• Introduction
• Installing ESXi 8
• ESXi configuration maximums
• Free hands-on labs from VMware
• About my lab environment
• Demo: Installing ESXi 8 using interactive installation
• Demo: Create a datastore using the host client
• Deploy the vCenter Server Appliance 8
• Demo: vCenter 8 VAMI
• Demo: Add ESXi hosts to vCenter inventory
• Licensing, pricing, and packaging for vSphere 8
• Demo: Licensing vCenter and ESXi
• Demo: Basic ESXi configuration with the host client
• Demo: Create a content library
• VMware flings

3. Configure and Manage vSphere 8 Networking

• Introduction
• Virtual networking concepts
• vSphere Standard Switches: Failure detection
• vSphere Standard Switches: NIC teaming
• vSphere Standard Switches: Traffic shaping
• vSphere Standard Switches: Security settings
• vSphere Standard Switches: Multiple TCP/IP stacks
• Demo: Create a vSphere 8 Standard Switch
• Demo: Configure vSphere Standard Switch
• Demo: Migrate a VMkernel port to a different virtual switch
• Demo: Configure port groups and VMkernel ports
• vSphere Distributed Switches: Scalability
• vSphere Distributed Switch review
• Demo: Create a vSphere 8 Distributed Switch
• Virtual switch features: CDP and LLDP
• Demo: Basic settings for a vSphere Distributed Switch
• vSphere Distributed Switches: Private VLANs
• Demo: Configuring private VLANs
• vSphere Distributed Switches: NIC teaming
• Virtual switch features: Network I/O Control
• Demo: Configure Network I/O Control
• Virtual switch features: Filtering and tagging
• Virtual switch features: Netflow
• Demo: Configure Netflow
• Virtual switch features: Port mirroring
• Demo: Configure port mirroring
• Network health check
• Demo: vSphere Distributed Switch health check
• Virtual switch features: Host-level rollback
• Virtual switch features: Distributed Switch rollback
• Virtual switch feature review

4. Configure and Manage vSphere 8 Storage

• Introduction
• Storage virtualization concepts
• VMFS and NFS concepts
• NFS v3 and version 4.1
• Demo: Create an NFS Datastore
• Fiber Channel storage
• LUN masking and zoning
• Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
• iSCSI storage concepts
• Demo: Configure iSCSI
• Introduction to vSAN
• vSAN vs. traditional storage
• vSAN Express Storage Architecture
• Storage configuration maximums

5. Deploy and Administer vSphere 8 VMs

• Introduction
• Demo: Create a VM in vSphere 8
• Demo: Install VMware tools in vSphere 8
• Demo: Upgrade VMware tools on vSphere VMs
• Demo: Inflate a thin-provisioned disk
• Demo: Create a vApp in vSphere
• Demo: Working with templates in vSphere 8
• Demo: Clone a VM in vSphere
• Demo: Import an OVF template in vSphere
• Snapshots
• Demo: Working with snapshots in vSphere
• Demo: Managing VM templates in a content library
• VM configuration maximums

6. Using vMotion to Migrate vSphere 8 VMs

• Introduction
• Migrating VMs with vMotion
• Demo: Configuring vMotion in vSphere
• Demo: Performing a vMotion migration in vSphere
• Demo: Configure a scheduled vMotion in vSphere
• Storage vMotion concepts
• Demo: Performing a Storage vMotion in vSphere
• Demo: Shared-nothing vMotion in vSphere
• vMotion Configuration maximums
• vMotion enhancement in vSphere

7. Availability in vSphere 8

• Introduction
• vSphere availability resources
• Basic vSphere High Availability architecture
• HA datastore heartbeats and host isolation
• HA failure scenarios
• Demo: Basic High Availability configuration in vSphere
• vCenter High Availability for vSphere 8
• Demo: Deploy vCenter High Availability (vCHA)
• Demo: vCenter manual backup to an SMB share
• Demo: vCenter scheduled backups and retention policies
• Zero-downtime failover with Fault Tolerance (FT)
• Demo: Fault Tolerance in vSphere

8. Administer Resource Management Features in vSphere 8

• Introduction
• vSphere Resource Management
• Understanding vSphere resource pools
• Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) concepts
• DRS: What's New in vSphere 7 and 8?
• DRS Affinity Rules
• DRS and vCenter
• DRS and maintenance mode
• DRS and automation levels
• DRS and resource fragmentation
• Demo: Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) in vSphere 8