VMware Fundamentals

• Describe the topology of a physical data center
• Explain the vSphere virtual infrastructure
• Define the files and components of virtual machines
• Describe the benefits of using virtual machines
• Explain the similarities and differences between physical architectures and virtual architectures
• VMware vSphere Basics
• VMware vSphere and Virtualizing the IT Infrastructure
• Aspects of Virtualization
• VMware vSphere , a Platform for Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure VMware vSphere Components and Features
• Physical Topology of vSphere Datacenter

Virtualization Layer:

• vSphere Datacenter
• Virtual Datacenter Architecture
• Hosts, Clusters, and Resource Pools
• VMware vSphere Distributed Services
• Network Architecture
• VMware vShield and Network Security
• Storage Architecture

Management Layer:

• VMware vCenter Server
• vCenter Server Core Services
• vCenter Server Plug-Ins
• vCenter Server Interfaces

Interface Layer:

• Accessing the Virtual Infrastructure
• vSphere Client and vSphere Web Client
• Using the vSphere Client
• Using the vSphere Web Client
• SDKs and Command-Line Interfaces
• Direct Virtual Machine Console Access

  VMware Management

• vSphere Storage includes, VMFS, NFS, vSAN and VVOLs
• Managing Virtual Machines includes vMotion, Storage vMotion, vApp, Snapshots
• vSphere High availability, vSphere Fault tolerance, vSphere Replication and vSphere Data Protection
• Distributed Resource Scheduler, Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler, Distributed Power Management

 PowerShell Introduction and Integration with VMware

• Introduction to VMware vsphers power cli
• Installation and configuring power cli
• Connecting to vcenter ,esxi through power cli
• Running scipts and commands
• Extending datastores via powershell.
• Sample scripts to run

Practice Test & Interview Question