vSphere 6 Foundations (Exam #2V0-620)

Video description

Over 9 hours of training so you can pass the vSphere 6 Foundations (#2V0-620)  exam.

 

Description

vSphere 6 Foundations (Exam #2V0-620) Complete Video Course is a unique video product that provides full coverage of the VMware vSphere 6 Foundations exam. The videos in this title provide a solid understanding of VMware vSphere, focusing on the components and the way they are managed. All exam objectives are covered so you have all the information you need to pass the exam. The author also provides insight into the software-defined data center and the role that VMware vSphere plays in it.

vSphere 6 Foundations (Exam #2V0-620) Complete Video Course contains 15 individual video modules with over 10 hours of video training. The videos consist of audio instruction, CLI demos, whiteboard teaching, screencasts, and more.

Topics include:

Module 1 — Introduction to the Software-Defined Data Center

Module 2 — Working with Virtual Machines

Module 3 — vCenter Server

Module 4 — Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

Module 5 — Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

Module 6 — Understanding VMware Advanced Storage

Module 7 — Managing Virtual Machines

Module 8 — Managing Migration

Module 9 — Managing vApps and Content Libraries

Module 10 — Managing and Monitoring Resources

Module 11 — vSphere HA

Module 12 — vSphere Fault Tolerance, Replication, and Data Protection

Module 13 — Understanding Host Scalability

Module 14 — Managing vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance

Module 15 — vRealize Operations Manager

 

Skill Level

Beginning to Intermediate

 

What You Will Learn

  • Introduction to the Software-Defined Data Center
  • Working with Virtual Machines
  • vCenter Server
  • Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
  • Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
  • Understanding VMware Advanced Storage
  • Managing Virtual Machines
  • Managing Migration
  • Managing vApps and Content Libraries
  • Managing and Monitoring Resources
  • vSphere HA
  • vSphere Fault Tolerance, Replication, and Data Protection
  • Understanding Host Scalability
  • Managing vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance
  • vRealize Operations Manager

Who Should Take This Course

The target audience for this course consists of IT professionals that want to get certified for working in VMware environments and pass the VMware Foundation exam.

A strong secondary audience consists of administrators that need to work in VMware vSphere environments.

Module 1 — Introduction to the Software-Defined Data Center

In this module you'll learn about the software-defined data center and the role that VMware ESXi and vSphere play in setting up a software-defined data center.

Module 2 — Working with Virtual Machines

This module introduces working with virtual machines. You'll learn how to create virtual machines and how a virtual machine technically is composed of different configuration files.

Module 3 — vCenter Server

This module introduces vCenter server. You'll learn how to set up vCenter server and how to integrate current ESXi hosts into the vCenter server environment, using the VMware Web Client.

Module 4 — Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

In this module, you'll learn how virtual networks are used to set up a software-defined data center. You'll about configuring standard switches as well as distributed switches.

Module 5 — Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

Virtual storage is essential for storing data that is created in virtual machines. In this module, you'll learn about standard solutions for setting up virtual storage as a back-end to VM disks.

Module 6 — Understanding VMware Advanced Storage

In this module, you ll learn about advanced storage solutions that are offered by VMware, such as vSan

Module 7 — Managing Virtual Machines

In this module, you'll learn how virtual machines can be managed. You'll learn which properties are relevant for setting up virtual machines and how to optimize virtual machines for your specific environments.

Module 8 — Managing Migration

In this module, you'll learn what is involved in setting up virtual machine migration and live migration. You'll learn how to set up an environment where live migration can be used, as well as how to perform VM migration itself.

Module 9 — Managing vApps and Content Libraries

This module teaches you how to use vApps and content libraries to make it easier to provide access to essential components of your virtualized environment.

Module 10  Managing and Monitoring Resources

In this module, you'll learn how to manage resources to ensure that sufficient resources are available at the place where they are needed. Also, you'll learn how to monitor resources which helps optimizing the availability of resources.

Module 11  vSphere HA

In this module, you'll learn how to protect virtual machines by setting up an HA environment. You'll learn how to create HA for the best possible functionality and which design considerations are involved.

Module 12  vSphere Fault Tolerance, Replication, and Data Protection

In this module, you'll learn how to build a resilient environment that can survive a wide range of potential problems. You'll set up Fault Tolerance to ensure continuous service of essential VMs, and replicattion as well as data protection to guarantee the availability of essential data on different sites.

Module 13  Understanding Host Scalability

In this module, you'll learn how to design a software-designed data center in a scalable way.

Module 14  Managing vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance

This module teaches you how vSphere update manager can be used to update hosts. You'll also learn how to use host maintenance which helps you working on hosts that are experiencing issues.

Module 15  — vRealize Operations Manager

In this module, you’ll learn what vRealize Operations Manager is and how you can deploy it. Once deployed, you can use vRealize Operations Manager to monitor resources in your software-defined data center, which will help you automate a multitude of operations in your virtual environment.

 

About Complete Video Course Training

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Table of contents

  1. Introduction
    1. vSphere 6 Foundations (Exam #2V0-620): Introduction
  2. Module 1 Introduction to the Software-Defined Data Center
    1. Module Intro
    2. Lesson 1: Introducing the Software-Defined Data Center
    3. Lesson 2: Understanding Virtual Machine Architecture
    4. Lesson 3: Understanding the Role of vSphere in Cloud Environments
    5. Lesson 4: Introducing ESXi
    6. Lesson 5: Installing ESXi
    7. Lesson 6: Working with ESXi
    8. Lesson 7: Installing and Using vSphere Client
    9. Lesson 8: Configuring Remote Access
  3. Module 2 Working with Virtual Machines
    1. Module Intro
    2. Lesson 1: What Is a Virtual Machine?
    3. Lesson 2: Exploring a Virtual Machine
    4. Lesson 3: Virtual Machine Disk and Networking
    5. Lesson 4: Provisioning a Virtual Machine
    6. Lesson 5: Installing a Virtual Machine
    7. Lesson 6: Accessing a Virtual Machine
    8. Lesson 7: Using VMware Tools
  4. Module 3 vCenter Server
    1. Module Intro
    2. Lesson 1: Introducing vCenter Server Architecture
    3. Lesson 2: Understanding vCenter Server Appliance Deployment Types
    4. Lesson 3: Deploying and Configuring vCenter Server Appliance—Overview
    5. Lesson 4: Deploying and Configuring vCenter Server Appliance—Demo
    6. Lesson 5: Installing and Using vSphere Web Client
    7. Lesson 6: Managing vCenter Server Inventory and Licenses
    8. Lesson 7: Managing vCenter Server Inventory
    9. Lesson 8: Configuring Time Synchronization
  5. Module 4 Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
    1. Module Intro
    2. Lesson 1: Understanding the Need for Software-Defined Networking
    3. Lesson 2: Understanding Virtual Switches
    4. Lesson 3: Creating and Managing Standard Switches
    5. Lesson 4: Understanding and Managing Standard Switch Policies
    6. Lesson 5: Configuring Load Balancing
    7. Lesson 6: Understanding vSphere Distributed Switches
    8. Lesson 7: Creating vSphere Distributed Switches
    9. Lesson 8: Managing vSphere Distributed Switches
    10. Lesson 9: Understanding VMkernel Networking
  6. Module 5 Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
    1. Module Intro
    2. Lesson 1: Understanding the Need for Virtual Storage
    3. Lesson 2: Working with Datastores
    4. Lesson 3: Understanding Storage Protocols and Storage Device Names
    5. Lesson 4: Understanding iSCSI Storage
    6. Lesson 5: Configuring ESXi with iSCSI Storage
    7. Lesson 6: Configuring ESXi with NFS Storage
    8. Lesson 7: Advanced NFS Options
    9. Lesson 8: Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores
    10. Lesson 9: Using Multipathing with Datastores
  7. Module 6 Understanding VMware Advanced Storage
    1. Module Intro
    2. Lesson 1: Introducing VMware Virtual SAN
    3. Lesson 2: Configuring VMware Virtual SAN
    4. Lesson 3: Understanding VMware Virtual SAN
  8. Module 7 Managing Virtual Machines
    1. Module Intro
    2. Lesson 1: Using Templates and Cloning for Virtual Machine Deployment—Overview
    3. Lesson 2: Using Templates and Cloning for Virtual Machine Deployment—Demo
    4. Lesson 3: Modifying and Managing Virtual Machines
    5. Lesson 4: Understanding Virtual Machine Snapshots
    6. Lesson 5: Creating and Managing Virtual Machine Snapshots
  9. Module 8 Managing Migration
    1. Module Intro
    2. Lesson 1: Understanding Migration
    3. Lesson 2: Understanding vMotion Migration
    4. Lesson 3: Managing vMotion Migration
    5. Lesson 4: Understanding Storage vMotion Migration
    6. Lesson 5: Understanding Long Distance vMotion Migration
  10. Module 9 Managing vApps and Content Libraries
    1. Module Intro
    2. Lesson 1: Creating vApps
    3. Lesson 2: Understanding Types of Content Libraries
    4. Lesson 3: Deploying Content Libraries
  11. Module 10 Managing and Monitoring Resources
    1. Module Intro
    2. Lesson 1: Understanding Virtual Memory Usage
    3. Lesson 2: Understanding Virtual CPU Usage
    4. Lesson 3: Configuring and Managing Resource Pools
    5. Lesson 4: Resource Pools Advanced Usage
    6. Lesson 5: Performance Monitoring and Tuning
    7. Lesson 6: Understanding Performance Data Gathering
    8. Lesson 7: Recognizing Key Performance Indicators
    9. Lesson 8: Using vCenter Server Alarms
  12. Module 11 vSphere HA
    1. Module Intro
    2. Lesson 1: Understanding HA
    3. Lesson 2: Understanding HA Architecture
    4. Lesson 3: Understanding Failure Scenarios
    5. Lesson 4: Creating an HA Cluster
    6. Lesson 5: Managing HA Properties
  13. Module 12 vSphere Fault Tolerance, Replication, and Data Protection
    1. Module Intro
    2. Lesson 1: Understanding vSphere Fault Tolerance
    3. Lesson 2: Managing vSphere Fault Tolerance
    4. Lesson 3: Using vSphere Replication
    5. Lesson 4: Using vSphere Data Protection
  14. Module 13 Understanding Host Scalability
    1. Module Intro
    2. Lesson 1: Understanding the Functions of vSphere DRS Cluster
    3. Lesson 2: Configuring and Managing vSphere DRS Cluster
    4. Lesson 3: Working with Affinity and Anti-Affinity Rules
    5. Lesson 4: Using vSphere HA and DRS Together
  15. Module 14 Managing vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance
    1. Module Intro
    2. Lesson 1: Using vSphere Update Manager to Manage Patching
    3. Lesson 2: Installing vSphere Update Manager and the Update Manager Plug-in
    4. Lesson 3: Creating Patch Baselines
    5. Lesson 4: Using Host Profiles to Manage ESXi Configuration Compliance
    6. Lesson 5: Scan and Remediate Host
  16. Module 15 vRealize Operations Manager
    1. Module Intro
    2. Lesson 1: Understanding the Use of vRealize Operations Manager
    3. Lesson 2: Deploying vRealize Operations Manager
    4. Lesson 3: vRealize Operations Manager Monitoring
  17. Summary
    1. vSphere 6 Foundations (Exam #2V0-620): Summary

Product information

  • Title: vSphere 6 Foundations (Exam #2V0-620)
  • Author(s): Sander van Vugt
  • Release date: February 2016
  • Publisher(s): VMware Press
  • ISBN: 0134434730