VMware Certified Professional VCP-410, Online Training

Course Topics: 11

Estimated Time Needed: 12 hour(s)

Audience: This VMware online course is for anyone who wants to learn vmware or for those who are preparing to take the VMware Certified Professional: VCP-410 exam.

Course Description: The VMware vSphere 4 suite provides a powerful set of virtualization tools for enterprise-level users. Virtualization helps users overcome the limitations of physical machines by optimizing resources and allowing multiple server instances on the same hardware. This series discusses working with the VMware vSphere 4 suite, and prepares you for the VMware Certified Professional VCP-410 certification exam.

Course Tutorials Include:

Time: 1 hour(s)

VMware Certified Professional VCP-410: Introducing vSphere 4

Description

This section discusses virtualization in general and the main components of the vSphere 4 suite. This section also provides a virtual machine overview and covers the different components of a virtual machine (VM) and how a VM compares to a physical machine.

Objectives

• Describe different types of virtualization
• Discuss virtual machines and VMware technology
• Describe the benefits of virtual machines
• Work with the vSphere 4 suite of applications

Time: 1 hour(s)

VMware Certified Professional VCP-410: Planning, Installing, and Configuring ESX

Description

This section covers the prerequisites and different methodologies of installing ESX.

Objectives

• Describe Disk Partitioning ESX4.1
• Install ESX 4.1 and ESXi 4.1
• Access ESX using the vSphere client
• Access ESX using SSH
• Create a user account that can access the server using SSH
• Enable SSH root access
• Modify Service Console memory allocation
• Configure NTP Client on ESX Server

Time: 1 hour(s)

VMware Certified Professional VCP-410: vNetworking Operations

Description

This section discusses all the components that make up virtual networking and how it facilitates communications for virtual machines.

Objectives

• Describe how virtual networking mimics physical networking
• Compare physical and virtual switches
• Describe the different types of virtual switches
• Explain the advantages of vNetwork Distributed Switches
• Describe the use of VLANs in virtual networking

Time: 2 hour(s)

VMware Certified Professional VCP-410: vStorage Operations

Description

This section covers storage considerations when planning a VMware Infrastructure deployment on a small, medium, or enterprise level. Storage is an integral part of the deployment that unlocks features such as VMotion, High Availability, and Distributed Resource Scheduler.

Objectives

• Describe the different storage architectures to consider for deployment
• Work with Local, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and Network Attached Storage technologies
• Configure multipathing
• Extend a Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)
• Work with Thin Provisioning

Time: 1 hour(s)

VMware Certified Professional VCP-410: Administration with vCenter

Description

This section covers installation of vCenter, design of a functional VC inventory, and administration with VC. vCenter unlocks all the enterprise features that make the VMware Infrastructure so valuable, such as vMotion, High Availability, and others.

Objectives

• Plan and install vCenter
• Describe vCenter services
• Discuss vCenter licensing
• Design a functional vCenter inventory
• Navigate the various vSphere Client tabs

Time: 1 hour(s)

VMware Certified Professional VCP-410: Virtual Machine Operations

Description

This section covers some of the daily operations that an administrator faces when working with a VMware vSphere environment, such as the creation and administration of virtual machines.

Objectives

• Describe the different virtual hardware components that can be added to a virtual machine
• Create a virtual machine
• Install a guest operating system
• Create and work with templates
• Manage and deploy virtual machines, virtual appliances, and vApps
• Use VMware vCenter Converter
• Using vCenter Guided Consolidation

Time: 1 hour(s)

VMware Certified Professional VCP-410: vSphere Security and Web Access

Description

This section discusses ensuring that the virtual infrastructure you have deployed is secure and that role-based access has been implemented so that the right users have the necessary security permissions to perform their daily tasks.

Objectives

• Describe the vSphere Security Model
• Discuss users, roles, privileges, and permissions
• Work with Web Access

Time: 1 hour(s)

VMware Certified Professional VCP-410: Managing vSphere Resources

Description

This section covers resource management in a VMware Infrastructure 3 environment. Understanding resource management is the single most important component of designing and maintaining your virtual infrastructure.

Objectives

• Manage VM CPU and memory resources
• Use resource pools
• Describe vMotion and Storage vMotion
• Work with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Time: 1 hour(s)

VMware Certified Professional VCP-410: Monitoring vSphere Resources

Description

This section focuses primarily on how to monitor your VMware Infrastructure. In this section, you'll learn about optimizing and monitoring resources used by virtual machines (VMs) and hosts, including virtual CPUs and virtual memory.

Objectives

• Describe resource optimization concepts
• Describe Hyper-Threading
• Use transparent memory page sharing
• Work with balloon-driver
• Discuss Memory Compression
• Describe Hypervisor Swap
• Monitor virtual machines and hosts

Time: 1 hour(s)

VMware Certified Professional VCP-410: Backup and High Availability

Description

This section explores the different options by which you can back up your VMware Infrastructure. In this section, you'll also learn about VMware High Availability (HA) and the ability to sustain host failures and ensure that your critical virtual machines (VMs) can be restarted on other hosts that are online.

Objectives

• Describe backup scenarios
• Use Data Recovery
• Configure the Data Recovery Appliance
• Use VMware High Availability
• Plan host failover capacity
• Describe virtual machine recovery priority
• Enable VMware Fault Tolerance (VFT)

Time: 1 hour(s)

VMware Certified Professional VCP-410: Practice Exam

Description

This section presents questions that will help you prepare for the VMware Certified Professional: VCP-410 exam. The feedback for each question provides in-depth background on the topic, including why each incorrect option was wrong and what to look for in correct answers.