Clear and Simple VMware vSphere 6.5 Foundations VCP - Part 2

Name: Clear and Simple VMware vSphere 6.5 Foundations VCP - Part 2
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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 5/2026

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What you'll learn

Manage host clusters, High Availability (HA), Fault Tolerance (FT), and vMotion.
Troubleshoot ESXi, vCenter, and Virtual Machines
Monitor vSphere using performance charts and alarms.

Course content

4 sections • 40 lectures • 3h 45m total length

Introduction1:54
A quick favor to ask...0:28
Getting Certified by VMware5:53

vMotion6:45
Demo: Configuring for vMotion6:51
Establish a shared datastore and a vmotion vmkernel port across esxi hosts, then verify shared storage, compatibility, and network readiness for a seamless vmotion migration.
Demo - vMotion6:29
Demo - Scheduled vMotion2:09
Demonstrates scheduling a vMotion to move a VM between hosts, with destination selection, high-priority scheduling, after-hours timing, and email confirmations, plus notes on storage considerations.
Storage vMotion7:39
Move a running virtual machine from one data store to another using storage vMotion, with changes mirrored via the mirror driver and shared nothing vMotion when no shared storage exists.
Demo: Storage vMotion4:13
Demonstrates storage vMotion by migrating a virtual machine's files to another data store while it remains on the same host, with options for thick or thin provisioning and scheduling.
High Availability (HA) Introduction8:13
Explore how high availability protects virtual machines from host failures by rebooting them on surviving ESX hosts, with shared storage and admission control ensuring spare capacity and resilient recovery.
High Availability Admission Control6:19
High Availability Host Isolation4:49
vSphere 6.5 - What's new in High Availability?10:50
Proactive high availability in vSphere 6.5 detects hardware issues, migrates VMs with motion, and uses orchestrated restart with quarantine and maintenance modes, plus cluster resource percentage for admission control.
Demo: High Availability9:01
Demo: Proactive HA4:53
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)8:13
DRS Affinity Rules3:32
DRS and vCenter1:14
DRS and Maintenance Mode1:43
DRS Automation Levels2:37
DRS and Resource Fragmentation1:53
Understand resource fragmentation during high availability events and how DRS rebalances workloads to consolidate across hosts, freeing space for a large virtual machine after a host failure.
vSphere 6.5 - What's new for DRS?7:27
Demo: DRS8:20
EVC5:46
Explore enhanced v motion compatibility (evc) to create a common CPU baseline across AMD and Intel hosts, masking new features to ensure consistent VM performance and safe cluster membership.
Fault Tolerance4:04
Demo: Fault Tolerance6:06
Resource Pools11:01
vSphere Data Protection6:02
Explore how vSphere data protection provides integrated virtual machine and file-level backups with incremental changes, guest agent application backups, and web-based self-service restores.

Demo: Verify VM Network Configuration3:37
Examine configured VMkernel Ports. Verify a VM port group, and settings like VLAN and MTU. Understand NIC teaming methods and the proper physical switch configuration. Understand CDP. View the physical adapters on a virtual switch. Differentiate between trunk and access ports.
Demo: Verify Host Networking7:43
Bonus Lecture: Ethernet Basics9:39
Explore ethernet's evolution from csma/cd on coax to hubs and switches. Learn how switches build a Mac address table to forward frames to the correct port.
Bonus Lecture: MTU5:26
ESXi Management Agents3:08
Troubleshoot Common Installation Issues5:35
Troubleshoot common ESX and Vicenta installation issues, focusing on interactive installs, boot order checks, and deployment options like USB, scripted, and auto deploy; collect logs and verify licensing.
Demo: Troubleshooting Common Storage Issues6:24
Use the vSphere Web Client to view the datastores associated with the host. View Storage Adapters and devices. Examine Dynamic Discovery of LUNs. Perform a rescan.
Demo: Troubleshoot Common VM Issues11:32
Verify that VMware Tools is installed. View the virtual NIC type, virtual SCSI Controller, and virtual hardware version. Check for snapshots. Check the selected Guest O.S. type. Check for limits and reservations.

Requirements

You should have a basic understanding of vSphere Concepts.
You should complete Clear and Simple vSphere 6.5 - Foundations (VCP6-DCV) Part 1

Description

"Great course: great material and videos with step-by-step demos and explanations." - Eleonore

"This course is very informative and very helpful for my current role. The instructor has done a very good job." - Dan

Are you looking for VMware vSphere Training? Do you want to learn from an experienced trainer who makes complex concepts simple and easy to understand?

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 host clustering, High Availability (HA), vMotion, and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). 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.

This course will also help you prepare for the VMware vSphere 6.5 Foundations exam. I can also provide Lab Rentals with manuals that you can use as a companion to this course.

Who this course is for:

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

Clear and Simple VMware vSphere 6.5 Foundations VCP - Part 2

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Course content

Introduction3 lectures • 8min

Objective 5: Administer Availability and Resource Management Features25 lectures • 2hr 26min

Troubleshooting vSphere 6.58 lectures • 53min

Monitoring vSphere 6.54 lectures • 18min

Requirements

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