VMWare vSphere Fundamentals

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1. Deploying a New vSphere 6.7 Infrastructure
1.1 Installing ESXi – the interactive method
1.2 Configuring the ESXi Management Network
1.3 Scripted deployment of ESXi
1.4 Deploying the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)
1.5 Deploying vCenters in a Linked Mode configuration
1.6 Configuring Single Sign-On (SSO) identity sources
1.7 Configuring vCenter Roles and Permissions
1.8 Joining ESXi to an Active Directory domain

2. Planning and Executing the Upgrade of vSphere
2.1 Planning the upgrade of your vSphere infrastructure
2.2 Running VMware Migration Assistant
2.3 Upgrading Platform Services Controllers (PSCs)
2.4 Upgrading vCenter Servers
2.5 Using the vCenter Convergence Tool
2.6 Upgrading ESXi using the interactive installer
2.7 Upgrading ESXi using the command-line interface

3. Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Standard Switches
3.1 Creating vSphere Standard Switches
3.2 Creating Virtual Machine Port Groups on vSphere Standard Switches
3.3 Creating additional VMkernel interfaces on vSphere Standard Switches
3.4 Creating additional VMkernel TCP/IP stacks
3.5 Managing the Physical Uplinks of a vSphere Standard Switch
3.6 Configuring Security, Traffic Shaping, Teaming and Failover

4. Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Distributed Switches
4.1 Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS)
4.2 Connecting ESXi hosts to a vDS
4.3 Creating Distributed Port Groups (dvPortGroup)
4.4 Configuring Security, Traffic Shaping, Teaming, and Failover
4.5 Configuring VLANs on vDS
4.6 Configuring Private VLANs on a vDS
4.7 Configuring a Link Aggregation Group (LAG) on a vDS
4.8 Configuring user-defined network pools—NIOC
4.9 Migrating Virtual Machine Network from vSS to vDS
4.10 Migrating VMkernel interfaces from vSS to vDS
4.11 Configuring port mirroring on vDS
4.12 Configuring NetFlow on vDS
4.13 Upgrading a vDS
4.14 Backing up and restoring a vDS

5. Configuring Storage Access for Your vSphere Environment
5.1 Connecting ESXi hosts to a Fabric Storage
5.2 Connecting ESXi to iSCSI Storage
5.3 iSCSI multipathing using Port Binding
5.4 Connecting ESXi hosts to NFS Storage
5.5 Viewing storage devices and datastores on ESXi hosts
5.6 Masking paths to a storage device
5.7 Unmasking paths to a storage device

6. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores
6.1 Creating VMFS datastores
6.2 Upgrading VMFS datastores
6.3 Managing Storage Multipathing
6.4 Expanding or growing a VMFS datastore
6.5 Extending a VMFS datastore
6.6 Unmounting VMFS datastores and detaching storage devices
6.7 Attaching storage devices and remounting VMFS datastores
6.8 Managing VMFS snapshots

7. SIOC, Storage DRS, and Profile-Driven Storage
7.1 Configuring Disk Shares on VM storage
7.2 Enabling SIOC
7.3 Balancing storage utilization using Storage DRS (SDRS)
7.4 Defining storage capabilities using vCenter Tags
7.5 Creating VM Storage Policies

8. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC
8.1 Enabling vSphere DRS on a cluster
8.2 Changing the default DRS behavior
8.3 Configuring VM Automation
8.4 Creating DRS Groups
8.5 Creating DRS VMs to Host Affinity Rules
8.6 Creating DRS Inter-VM Affinity Rules
8.7 Configuring Predictive DRS
8.8 Configuring DPM
8.9Using VMware Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)

9. Achieving High Availability in a vSphere Environment
9.1 Enabling vSphere High Availability
9.2 Configuring vCenter Admission Control
9.3 Configuring Heartbeat Datastores
9.4 Overriding Restart Priority for Virtual Machines
9.5 Creating VM to VM Dependency Rules
9.6 Disabling Host Monitoring
9.7 Enabling Virtual Machine Monitoring
9.8 Enabling Virtual Machine Component Protection (VMCP)
9.9 Configuring vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT)
9.10 Configuring vCenter Native High Availability (VCHA)

10. Achieving Configuration Compliance Using vSphere Host Profiles
10.1 Creating Host Profiles
10.2 Associating Host Profiles with ESXi hosts or clusters
10.3 Checking Host Profile Compliance
10.4 Scheduling Host Profile Compliance Checks
10.5 Performing Host Customizations
10.6 Remediating non-compliant Hosts
10.7 Using Host Profiles to push a configuration change
10.8 Copying settings between Host Profiles
10.9 Exporting Host Profiles
10.10 Importing Host Profiles
10.11 Duplicating Host Profiles

11. Building Custom ESXi Images Using Image Builder
11.1 Enabling ESXi Image Builder
11.2 Importing a Software Depot
11.3 Creating an Online Software Depot
11.4 Creating a Custom Software Depot
11.5 Cloning Image Profiles
11.6 Creating Image Profiles using Software Packages
11.7 Comparing Image Profiles
11.8 Moving Image Profiles between Software Depots
11.9 Exporting Image Profiles

12. Auto-Deploying Stateless and Stateful ESXi Hosts
12.1 Enabling vSphere Auto Deploy
12.2 Configuring the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server for an ESXi PXE boot environment
12.3 Configuring the DHCP server for a PXE boot
12.4 Creating vSphere Auto Deploy rules
12.5 Configuring Stateless Caching
12.6 Deploying Stateful ESXi hosts

13. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
13.1 Creating a Virtual Machine
13.2 Creating Virtual Machine Snapshots
13.3 Deleting Virtual Machine Snapshots
13.4 Reverting to the current Virtual Machine Snapshot
13.5 Switching to an Arbitrary Virtual Machine Snapshot
13.6 Consolidating Snapshots
13.7 Exporting a Virtual Machine

14. Upgrading and Patching Using vSphere Update Manager
14.1 Downloading Patch Definitions
14.2 Creating Patch Baselines
14.3 Creating Host Upgrade Baselines
14.4 Creating Baseline Groups
14.5 Configuring Update Manager’s Remediation Settings
14.6 Patching/upgrading ESXi hosts using Update Manager
14.7 Upgrading VMware Tools and virtual hardware using Update Manager 
14.8 Installing the Update Manager Download Service on Linux
14.9 Configuring UMDS to download patches
14.10 Configuring a Web Server on UMDS (Linux)

15. Securing vSphere Using SSL Certificates
15.1 Using VMCA as a Subordinate or Intermediary CA
15.2 Certificate management using the Hybrid approach
15.3 Renewing ESXi certificates
15.4 Trusting root certificates to stop browser security warnings

16. Monitoring the vSphere Infrastructure
16.1 Using esxtop to monitor performance
16.2 Exporting/importing esxtop configurations
16.3 Running esxtop in batch mode
16.4 Gathering VM I/O statistics using vscsiStats
16.5 Using vCenter Performance Charts
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