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VMware vSphere Foundation 9
Course Curriculum
Day 1: Day 1 – VVF 9 overview: editions, components, what's new in 9.0, and how licensing works
Day 2: Day 2 - What is Hypervisor
Day 3: Day 3 - ESX Host Architecture
Day 4: Day 4 - ESX Host core Components (vmkernel, vpxa, hostd, dcui)
Day 5: Day 5 - ESX Memory management
Day 6: Day 6 - ESX host log files.
Day 7: Day 7 - ESX Host Troubleshooting Tools: ESXi Shell, SSH, esxcli, esxtop basics
Day 8: Day 8 - Hardware requirements and pre-install checklist
Day 9: Day 9 - Interactive ESX installation
Day 10: Day 10 - Initial configuration using the DCUI (management network, DNS, hostname)
Day 11: Day 11 - ESX Host Client walkthrough
Day 12: Day 12 - Host settings: NTP, services, certificates, lockdown mode, host profiles
Day 13: Day 13 - vCenter architecture and services
Day 14: Day 14 - Deploying vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)
Day 15: Day 15 - Navigating the vSphere Client and managing inventory
Day 16: Day 16 - vSphere SSO, identity sources and Enhanced Linked Mode
Day 17: Day 17 - Roles, permissions and privileges
Day 18: Day 18 - vCenter certificates
Day 19: Day 19 - vCenter backup and restore, and vCenter HA concepts
Day 20: Day 20 – VM architecture and virtual hardware
Day 21: Day 21 – VM files (.vmx, .vmdk, .nvram, .vswp and others)
Day 22: Day 22 – Creating a VM and installing a guest OS
Day 23: Day 23 – VMware Tools and guest customization
Day 24: Day 24 – Templates, clones and OVF/OVA
Day 25: Day 25 – Snapshots: how they work and best practices
Day 26: Day 26 – Content Libraries
Day 27: Day 27 – vSphere networking concepts
Day 28: Day 28 – Standard switches (vSS) and port groups
Day 29: Day 29 – VMkernel adapters and traffic types
Day 30: Day 30 – Distributed switches (vDS) architecture and creation
Day 31: Day 31 – VLANs, NIC teaming and failover policies
Day 32: Day 32 – Security policies and traffic shaping
Day 33: Day 33 – Advanced vDS: LACP, NetFlow, port mirroring, Network I/O Control
Day 34: Day 34 – Network troubleshooting (vmkping, esxcli network, packet capture)
Day 35: Day 35 – vSphere storage overview
Day 36: Day 36 – VMFS datastores
Day 37: Day 37 – NFS datastores
Day 38: Day 38 – iSCSI configuration
Day 39: Day 39 – Fibre Channel and NVMe over Fabrics
Day 40: Day 40 – Datastore management: expand, extend, unmount, multipathing (PSA/NMP)
Day 41: Day 41 – Storage policies (SPBM) and vVols
Day 42: Day 42 – Storage troubleshooting, and vSAN positioning (confirm vSAN entitlement in your VVF edition)
Day 43: Day 43 – Resource pools: shares, reservations, limits
Day 44: Day 44 – vMotion
Day 45: Day 45 – Storage vMotion and cross-vCenter migration
Day 46: Day 46 – Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
Day 47: Day 47 – vSphere DRS
Day 48: Day 48 – vSphere HA
Day 49: Day 49 – Fault Tolerance and vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS)
Day 50: Day 50 – vSphere Lifecycle Manager: baselines vs images
Day 51: Day 51 – Patching and upgrading ESX hosts