Clear and Simple VMware vSphere 6.5 Foundations VCP - Part 1

Name: Clear and Simple VMware vSphere 6.5 Foundations VCP - Part 1
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Want to learn about VMware vSphere? This course is full of demos, diagrams, and clear explanations of vSphere concepts.

Created byRick Crisci

Last updated 11/2024

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What you'll learn

vCenter and ESXi installation, updates, and configuration
Understand vSphere Storage including VSAN, iSCSI, NFS, and VMFS
Create and manage Virtual Machines (VM) and vApps
Create vSphere Standard and Distributed Switches
Deploy VMs from a Template and Clone VMs

Course content

5 sections • 46 lectures • 5h 11m total length

Introduction1:54
Deliver a clear introduction to vSphere 6.5 foundations part 1, highlighting hands-on learning, detailed lab manuals, and essential resources for the two-part foundations exam.
A quick favor to ask...0:28
Getting Certified by VMware5:53
Learn how to pursue VMware certification, focusing on the VCP-6 data center virtualization foundation exam, including requirements, objectives, and study paths with practice tests and hands-on labs.

vSphere Licensing Editions3:09
Virtualization Basics19:31
vCenter and the Platform Services Controller4:17
Resource and database requirements for vCenter.
What's New in vCenter 6.512:00
Demo: Deploy vCenter Appliance 6.59:21
Demo: Licensing vCenter and ESXi3:39
Demonstrates assigning and applying license keys to vCenter and ESXi via the vSphere Web Client, resolving host disconnections and maintaining a clean license inventory.
Demo: ESXi Installation6:15
Demo: Basic ESXi Configuration7:48
Explore basic ESXi configuration via the host client, covering auto start, NTP, licensing, services, authentication, user roles, lockdown mode, firewall rules, DNS, data stores, and VM management.
Content Libraries2:46
Update Manager9:18
Automates patching and upgrades for ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and appliances using dynamic and fixed baselines, a download source, and remediation, bundled in the vCenter server appliance.
Demo - Update Manager9:07

Virtual Networking5:52
vSphere Standard Switches19:07
Explore how vSphere standard switches balance VM traffic across multiple adapters using originating port ID, MAC address, and IP hash, with beacon probes, traffic shaping, and security controls.
vSphere Distributed Switches13:24
Explore the vSphere distributed switch, its centralized management plane and data plane of hidden switches, and implement private VLANs, VLAN types, and route based on physical NIC load with LACP.
Virtual Switch Features9:28
Compare standard and distributed virtual switches, and learn about Cisco discovery protocol, link layer discovery protocol, traffic filtering and tagging, network health check, NetFlow, and port mirroring.
Demo - Create a vSphere Standard Switch8:41
Bonus Lecture - Understanding MTU5:26
Demo - Create a vSphere Distributed Switch8:09
Create a vSphere distributed switch, assign uplinks on two ESXi hosts, and migrate a VM from a standard port group to the distributed switch.
Demo - Configure Virtual Switch Features17:40

Storage Virtualization9:37
Explore how storage virtualization decouples virtual machines from physical hardware, and how the hypervisor directs storage to virtual disks, with thin versus thick provisioning and zeroing.
VMFS vs. NFS11:17
Explain VMFS and NFS datastores: LUNs are raw space that VMFS formats, while NFS uses a preexisting shared folder, and VMFS enables boot from SAN whereas NFS does not.
NFS version 3 vs. 4.14:37
Compare NFS v3 and v4.1 to understand security upgrades, multi-pathing with a second IP, and Kerberos-based access, while noting v3 limitations like unencrypted traffic and root access requirements.
Demo: Create an NFS Datastore4:47
Fiber Channel Storage8:25
LUN Masking1:13
Zoning1:22
Explore zoning to segment fiber channel switch fabric, isolating production storage from development hosts. Create blue and green zones so only prod ESX hosts access the dedicated fiber channel array.
Fiber Channel over Ethernet7:18
iSCSI Storage3:22
Software iSCSI1:33
Dependent Hardware iSCSI1:23
Explain how a dependent hardware iSCSI initiator connects a VM's iSCSI controller to physical storage adapter, and compare it with independent hardware iSCSI that uses Ethernet adapters to reduce overhead.
Independent Hardware iSCSI Initiator1:33
iSCSI Target Discovery3:49
Virtual SAN (VSAN) Part 18:48
Learn how VMware vSAN uses local host storage to create a shared datastore in a cluster, enabling vmotion, high availability, and distributed resource scheduler with disc groups and SSD cache.
Virtual SAN (VSAN) Part 211:50
Set up a VSAN cluster of ESXi hosts with 10 gig networks and a VMkernel port for VSAN traffic, mirroring VM objects across hosts and leveraging a hybrid flash cache.

Demo: Create a VM8:15
Demo: Install VMware Tools5:09
Demo: Inflate a thin-provisioned disk3:22
Demo: Create a vApp3:37
Demo: Working with Templates12:44
Demo: Clone a VM2:51
Demo: Import an OVF Template3:44
Snapshots6:56
Explain how snapshots capture memory and virtual disk state to create a point-in-time fallback, with a read-only original disk and a delta disk for short-term live changes.
Bonus Video0:42

Requirements

You should have a basic understanding of vSphere Concepts.
You can complete my Clear and Simple VMware Certified Associate (VCA-DBT) course to prepare for this course.

Description

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"The training is very informative and very useful to my current role. Thank you." - Dan

Are you looking for VMware vSphere Training? It is essential in today's modern workplaces. 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 VMware vSphere 6.5 Foundations 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 vSphere foundation concepts.

VMware vSphere is everywhere. Non-virtualized datacenters are a thing of the past, and in order to stay relevant you must understand vSphere. This course builds off my "Clear and Simple vSphere Certified Associate" videos and gives you a deeper understanding of vSphere.

You will learn about vSphere concepts like VMFS and NFS storage, templates, cloning, vCenter and ESXi installation, Update Manager, and VSAN. I will also provide live demos of many common tasks that you may need to perform as a vSphere Administrator using the vSphere Web Client.

Who this course is for:

Administrators that need to learn vSphere fundamentals.
Anyone who plans to take the vSphere 6.5 Foundations Exam.

Clear and Simple VMware vSphere 6.5 Foundations VCP - Part 1

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Course content

Getting Started3 lectures • 8min

Objective 1 - vSphere 6.5 Basics11 lectures • 1hr 27min

Objective 2: vSphere Networking8 lectures • 1hr 28min

Objective 3: Manage vSphere Storage15 lectures • 1hr 21min

Objective 4: VMs and vApps9 lectures • 47min

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