Virtualization

• Understanding the Need of Virtualization.
• Introduction to VMware Virtualization and vSphere components
• Learn about Hypervisor
• Know about Hyper-V and Nutanix
• Understanding Virtualization and Cloud

VMware vSphere vCenter

• Install and Configure VMware vSphere 8.0 and 7.0
• Upgrade vSphere vCenter 7.0 to 8.0
• Monitoring vCenter
• Understand, Deploy and Configure vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA).
• vCenter Patch management
• Resource Management and Monitoring.
• Learn about vCenter VAMI page 5480
• Understand functions and benefits of a vSphere DRS cluster.
• Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster.
• Understand vSphere HA architecture.
• Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster.
• Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
• Understanding Update manager VUM and Lifecycle manager (LCM)
• VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager to apply ESXI patches and ESXI upgrade
• Understand Difference between vSphere 7.0 and 8.0
• Learn about vCenter features
• VMware Virtual Machine Backup solutions and Restore
• Disaster management
• Know about HCI and vSAN

Migrations

• Manage vSphere vMotion migrations
• manage vSphere SvMotion Storage migrations
• vMotion Conditions and Prerequisites
• P2V and V2V Migrations
• Cluster to Cluster VM Migrations
• vCenter to vCenter Migrations
• Understand Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
• Troubleshoot VM Migration issues

Manage ESXI Host

• ESXI host Hardware Compatibility check
• ESXI Host build process
• Installing and Configuring ESXI
• ESXI Host commissioning and Decommissioning
• Upgrade ESXI host 7.0 to 8.0
• Upgrade ESXI thru Command line
• ESXI build patch Updates
• Add ESXI host to a cluster
• Configure Management Network of ESXI
• Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks in ESXI
• Create and use Host alarms to report certain conditions or events.
• Understand ESXI host Server Inventory

• Understand Features available in 7.0 and 8.0
• ESXI Host monitoring (monitor CPU,Memory,Disk,Network utilization)
• Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
• Comparison between ESXI 7.0 and 8.0
• Learn about ESXI Issues and Troubleshooting
• Learn ESXi Commands and TOP Commands
• Learn about ESXI Logs
• Understanding ESXI Services
• Understanding Host Maintenance mode
• Know the Host Task and Events

Manage Virtual Machine

• Create Virtual Machine
• Installing Guest OS in VMs.
• Understand and Install VMware Tools.
• Create and Manage Virtual Machines in ESXi.
• Know the CPU and Memory Hot Plug
• Know the VM Disk files.
• VM Resource reconfiguration Process (VM Disk add, resize, Memory, CPU).
• Customize a new Virtual Machine using customization specification.
• Understand and Manage Virtual Machine Migration.
• Create a template and deploy a virtual machine from a template
• Clone a virtual machine
• Register and Unregister VM
• Understand and Manage VM Snapshot.
• Take snapshots of a virtual machine and Revert to a snapshot
• Create a virtual machine alarm and trigger virtual machine alarms

• Understanding the VM events and Tasks
• Virtual Machine monitoring
• Virtual Machine Troubleshooting (VM hung issue, VM performance issue, RDP issue)
• Understand vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT)

• Understand Resource pool
• VM inventory and RVTools report Generation

Storage

• Create and Manage VMFS and NFS datastores.
• Extend VMFS Datastore
• Understanding Shared storage
• Understanding Thick and Thin Provision
• Understanding Data Center Storage
• Understanding ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel storage.
• Know about LUN and Datastore

Networking

• Manage Standard switch and Distributed Switch
• Understand Distributed Switch features
• Understand and Configure Port groups
• Assign network
• Know the vSphere Virtual Switch
• VLANs in VMware Infrastructure
• Managing the Virtual Network
• Understand Network vMotion
• Know the Virtual Network Security

Server Hardware

• Know the Server Hardware Components
• Know the Server Hardware issues
• Hardware Remote management Controllers (HP ILO, DELL DRAC)
• Learn about Types of server Hardware (Tower Server, Rack server, Blade server) using in Data Centers
• Faulty Hardware components replacements

• Learn about BIOS and POST
• Physical server Bios and Firmware update
• Learn RAID and Configure RAID
• Know about Cisco UCS Manager and Blade server

Windows Server and DataCenter

• Learn about Microsoft Windows Servers
• Installing and Configuring Windows Servers
• Windows server upgrade
• Active Directory, DNS,DHCP,AD user Management
• Group policy
• Windows server Patch management
• Know about Application, Database and Web Servers
• Overview of Datacenter
• Know about Datacenter Architecture
• Datacenter Devices
• Datacenter Storage and Backup
• Datacenter Capacity Planning
• Datacenter Networking
• Datacenter Administrator responsibilities
• Datacenter Hardware replacements

ITIL Process and Management

• Incident and Request Tickets handling
• Change Request (CR) and Emergency Change request
• Problem Management (Reactive and Proactive problem ticket)
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA) preparation
• Know about tickets SLA
• Tasks and Change Task

Know about CMDB and Vendors Management

• Learn SOP Creation
• Capacity Planning and Feasibility checks
• Activities prechecks and Post checks
• Plan Of Action (POA) creation for Scheduled activities
• Know the Microsoft Windows servers versions and editions
• Know the Products of VMware
• Know the Hardware vendors
• Log case with Vendors such as DELL,HP,CISCO,VMware Broadcom

Career Guidance

• Know about VMware opening in MNC
• VMware Administrator Job Roles, Responsibilities and Day today activities
• Job Guidance and Job search
• Interview Preparation
• Mock Interview
• Microsoft Windows server, VMware and Cloud Certification guidance
• Discussion about Salary hike in VMware administration