VMware Certified Professional (2V0-21.20) Certification Training

About Course

The VMware Certified Professional (2V0-21.20) certification validates skills in deploying, managing, and troubleshooting VMware vSphere 7 environments. Holders demonstrate expertise in virtualization concepts, networking, storage, and security related to VMware technologies. This certification is essential for IT professionals specializing in VMware infrastructure, ensuring they can effectively design, implement, and maintain scalable virtualized environments to meet organizational IT needs and optimize resource utilization. It signifies proficiency in VMware products and solutions, enabling professionals to contribute significantly to IT infrastructure management and support, particularly in roles such as system administrators, consultants, and architects.

Course Content

Module 1: Architectures and Technologies

Objective 1.1 – Identify the pre-requisites and components for a vSphere implementation
Objective 1.2 – Describe vCenter Server topology
Objective 1.3 – Identify and differentiate storage access protocols for vSphere (NFS, iSCSI, SAN, etc.)
Objective 1.4 – Differentiate between vSphere Network I/O Control (NIOC) and vSphere Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
Objective 1.5 – Describe instant clone architecture and use cases
Objective 1.6 – Describe ESXi cluster concepts
Objective 1.7 – Identify vSphere distributed switch and vSphere standard switch capabilities
Objective 1.8 – Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager concepts (baselines, cluster images, etc.)
Objective 1.9 – Describe the basics of vSAN as primary storage
Objective 1.10 – Describe the vSphere Trust Authority architecture
Objective 1.11 – Explain Software Guard Extensions (SGX)

Module 2: VMware Products and Solutions

Module 3: Planning and Designing – There are no testable objectives for this section.

Module 4: Installing, Configuring, and Setup

Objective 4.1 – Describe single sign-on (SSO) deployment topology
Objective 4.2 – Configure VSS advanced virtual networking options
Objective 4.3 – Set up identity sources
Objective 4.4 – Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
Objective 4.5 – Create and configure VMware High Availability and advanced options (Admission Control, Proactive High Availability, etc.)
Objective 4.6 – Deploy and configure vCenter Server High Availability
Objective 4.7 – Set up content library
Objective 4.8 – Configure vCenter Server file-based backup
Objective 4.9 – Analyze basic log output from vSphere products
Objective 4.10 – Configure vSphere Trust Authority
Objective 4.11 – Configure vSphere certificates
Objective 4.12 – Configure vSphere Lifecycle Manager/VMware Update Manager (VUM)
Objective 4.13 – Securely Boot ESXi hosts
Objective 4.14 – Configure different network stacks
Objective 4.15 – Configure Host Profiles
Objective 4.16 – Identify boot options

Module 5: Performance-tuning, Optimization, Upgrades

Module 6: Troubleshooting and Repairing – There are no testable objectives for this section.

Module 7: Administrative and Operational Tasks

Objective 7.1 – Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
Objective 7.2 – Create virtual machines using different methods (Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) templates, content library, etc.)
Objective 7.3 – Manage virtual machines
Objective 7.4 – Manage storage (datastores, storage policies, etc.)
Objective 7.5 – Create Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) affinity and anti-affinity rules for common use cases
Objective 7.6 – Configure and perform different types of migrations
Objective 7.7 – Configure role-based user management
Objective 7.8 – Configure and manage the options for securing a vSphere environment (certificates, virtual machine encryption, virtual Trusted Platform Module, lock-down mode, virtualization-based security, etc)
Objective 7.9 – Configure and manage host profiles
Objective 7.10 – Utilize baselines to perform updates and upgrades
Objective 7.11 – Utilize vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Objective 7.12 – Configure alarms

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Course Content

Module 1: Architectures and Technologies

Objective 1.1 – Identify the pre-requisites and components for a vSphere implementation

Objective 1.2 – Describe vCenter Server topology

Objective 1.3 – Identify and differentiate storage access protocols for vSphere (NFS, iSCSI, SAN, etc.)

Objective 1.4 – Differentiate between vSphere Network I/O Control (NIOC) and vSphere Storage I/O Control (SIOC)

Objective 1.5 – Describe instant clone architecture and use cases

Objective 1.6 – Describe ESXi cluster concepts

Objective 1.7 – Identify vSphere distributed switch and vSphere standard switch capabilities

Objective 1.8 – Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager concepts (baselines, cluster images, etc.)

Objective 1.9 – Describe the basics of vSAN as primary storage

Objective 1.10 – Describe the vSphere Trust Authority architecture

Objective 1.11 – Explain Software Guard Extensions (SGX)

Module 2: VMware Products and Solutions

Objective 2.1 – Describe the role of vSphere in the software-defined data center (SDDC)

Objective 2.2 – Identify use cases for vCloud Foundation

Objective 2.3 – Identify migration options

Objective 2.4 – Identify DR use cases

Objective 2.5 – Describe vSphere integration with VMware Skyline

Module 3: Planning and Designing – There are no testable objectives for this section.

Module 4: Installing, Configuring, and Setup

Objective 4.1 – Describe single sign-on (SSO) deployment topology

Objective 4.2 – Configure VSS advanced virtual networking options

Objective 4.3 – Set up identity sources

Objective 4.4 – Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance

Objective 4.5 – Create and configure VMware High Availability and advanced options (Admission Control, Proactive High Availability, etc.)

Objective 4.6 – Deploy and configure vCenter Server High Availability

Objective 4.7 – Set up content library

Objective 4.8 – Configure vCenter Server file-based backup

Objective 4.9 – Analyze basic log output from vSphere products

Objective 4.10 – Configure vSphere Trust Authority

Objective 4.11 – Configure vSphere certificates

Objective 4.12 – Configure vSphere Lifecycle Manager/VMware Update Manager (VUM)

Objective 4.13 – Securely Boot ESXi hosts

Objective 4.14 – Configure different network stacks

Objective 4.15 – Configure Host Profiles

Objective 4.16 – Identify boot options

Module 5: Performance-tuning, Optimization, Upgrades

Objective 5.1 – Identify resource pools use cases

Objective 5.2 – Monitor resources of vCenter Server Appliance and vSphere environment

Objective 5.3 – Identify and use tools for performance monitoring

Objective 5.4 – Configure Network I/O Control (NIOC)

Objective 5.5 – Configure Storage I/O Control (SIOC)

Objective 5.6 – Explain the performance impact of maintaining virtual machine snapshots

Objective 5.7 – Plan for upgrading various vSphere components

Module 6: Troubleshooting and Repairing – There are no testable objectives for this section.

Module 7: Administrative and Operational Tasks

Objective 7.1 – Create and manage virtual machine snapshots

Objective 7.2 – Create virtual machines using different methods (Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) templates, content library, etc.)

Objective 7.3 – Manage virtual machines

Objective 7.4 – Manage storage (datastores, storage policies, etc.)

Objective 7.5 – Create Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) affinity and anti-affinity rules for common use cases

Objective 7.6 – Configure and perform different types of migrations

Objective 7.7 – Configure role-based user management

Objective 7.8 – Configure and manage the options for securing a vSphere environment (certificates, virtual machine encryption, virtual Trusted Platform Module, lock-down mode, virtualization-based security, etc)

Objective 7.9 – Configure and manage host profiles

Objective 7.10 – Utilize baselines to perform updates and upgrades

Objective 7.11 – Utilize vSphere Lifecycle Manager

Objective 7.12 – Configure alarms

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