
Learn the basic concepts of Virtualization. This video describes all of the basic vSphere components, including Virtual Machines, ESXi hosts, and vCenter.
Discover virtualization benefits over traditional data centers, including lower capital and operational costs, improved isolation, rapid deployment from templates, and centralized management with vCenter.
VMware provides standardized virtual hardware to overcome varying hardware, enables centralized control via the center, and enforces compliance with templates and vendor configuration manager.
Explore virtualization optimization challenges, identify bottlenecks, and right-size virtual machines with vRealize Operations Manager, DRS, and storage policies. Learn how thin provisioning, IO controls, and vFlash cache boost performance.
Demonstrates installing the client integration plugin, enabling Windows session authentication, deploying a virtual appliance, importing the virtual machine into vCenter inventory, and launching a remote console.
Explore host clustering to boost availability, performance, and storage by grouping ESX hosts into a cluster, enabling high availability, resource scheduler, and features like v motion and virtual SAN.
Learn how distributed resource scheduler enables load balancing across ESX hosts by automating VMotion migrations, with manual, partially automated, and fully automated modes, plus affinity and anti-affinity rules.
Learn how resource pools group virtual machines to apply shares, limits, reservations, and permissions, manage memory and CPU, use child pools, and control boot order for multi-tier systems.
Explain how virtual switches connect virtual machines to resources via port groups, virtual NICs, and VM kernel ports, using VLAN tagging, uplinks, and security policies.
Explain how network I/O control prioritizes traffic with shares, limits, and reservations to guarantee bandwidth during contention, enforced on the vds as traffic leaves the virtual switch.
Learn how vSphere data protection backs up virtual machines with an incremental appliance, offering VM- and file-level protection, plus application-consistent backups for sql, sharepoint, and exchange.
Explore how to create and manage roles in the vSphere web client, assign privileges, clone sample roles, and apply custom roles with permissions propagation to clusters and hosts.
Explore vSphere design qualities: availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security. See how high availability, fault tolerance, data protection, replication, Site Recovery Manager, encryption, and guides strengthen your virtual data center.
Explore vSAN hybrid and all-flash configurations, including SSD read caches and write buffers, data mirroring for resilience, and encryption with deduplication and Ra'ed five and Ra'ed six for space efficiency.
Explore NSX data center use cases, including micro segmentation for per-VM security, multi-cloud networking, disaster recovery and VM portability, and policy-driven automation and compliance.
Explore horizon 7 for desktop virtualization and how golden images, instant clones, and just-in-time management streamline updates, apps, and user personas via the environment manager.
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**NOTE - The VCA-DBT certification is retired.**
Are you looking for VMware Certified Associate training? Do you want to learn from an experienced trainer who makes complex concepts simple and easy to understand? Do you need to prepare for the VCA-DBT exam?
I am a VMware Certified Instructor who has taught thousands of hours of live training directly for VMware. Most lectures in this course are 5 - 15 minutes long. A few deeper topics are slightly longer. This course gives you an understanding of key VMware products and concepts.
VMware vSphere is everywhere. Non-virtualized datacenters are a thing of the past, and in order to stay relevant you must understand virtualization and cloud concepts.
This course features a few different sections. I have included 28 lessons teaching you the basics of vSphere, because that is the most important VMware product, and is core to understanding NSX, vSAN, and other products. However, understand that much of this vSphere knowledge is not directly applicable to the VCA-DBT exam. Learning it is important to have a strong foundation. Key vSphere topics covered include vCenter, ESXi, Host Clusters, Availability, DRS, Storage, Networking, and Fault Tolerance.
After that we take a deep dive into the topics of the VCA-DBT exam. vSAN, NSX, Horizon, and vRealize are key knowledge areas that are covered. You will understand the use cases for all these products and will learn everything you need to know to pass the VMware Certified Associate - Digital Business Transformation (VCA-DBT) exam.