VMware Certified Professional VCP-410 - Online Course

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.

This series is for anyone who is preparing to take the VMware Certified Professional: VCP-410 exam. This online course contains 10 lessons and 1 practice exams and should take approximately 12 hours to complete.

Lesson 1: Introducing vSphere 4 (1.0) hour

Introducing vSphere 4 teaches you how to describe different types of virtualization, discuss virtual machines and VMware technology, describe the benefits of virtual machines, and work with the vSphere 4 suite of applications. This course discusses virtualization in general and the main components of the vSphere 4 suite. This course 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. Topics include Introducing vSphere 4.

Lesson 2: Planning, Installing, and Configuring ESX (1.0) hour

Planning, Installing, and Configuring ESX teaches you how to 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, and configure NTP Client on ESX Server. This course covers the prerequisites and different methodologies of installing ESX. Topics include Planning, Installing, and Configuring ESX.

Lesson 3: vNetworking Operations (1.0) hour

vNetworking Operations teaches you how to 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, and describe the use of VLANs in virtual networking. This course discusses all the components that make up virtual networking and how it facilitates communications for virtual machines. Topics include vNetworking Operations.

Lesson 4: vStorage Operations (2.0) hours

vStorage Operations teaches you how to 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), and work with Thin Provisioning. This course 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. Topics include vStorage Operations.

Lesson 5: Administration with vCenter (1.0) hour

Administration with vCenter teaches you how to plan and install vCenter, describe vCenter services, discuss vCenter licensing, design a functional vCenter inventory, and navigate the various vSphere Client tabs. This course 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. Topics include Administration with vCenter.

Lesson 6: Virtual Machine Operations (1.0) hour

Virtual Machine Operations teaches you how to 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, and using vCenter Guided Consolidation. This course 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. Topics include Virtual Machine Operations.

Lesson 7: vSphere Security and Web Access (1.0) hour

vSphere Security and Web Access teaches you how to describe the vSphere Security Model, discuss users, roles, privileges, and permissions, and work with Web Access. This course 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. Topics include vSphere Security and Web Access.

Lesson 8: Managing vSphere Resources (1.0) hour

Managing vSphere Resources teaches you how to manage VM CPU and memory resources, use resource pools, describe vMotion and Storage vMotion, and work with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). This course 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. Topics include Managing vSphere Resources.

Lesson 9: Monitoring vSphere Resources (1.0) hour

Monitoring vSphere Resources teaches you how to describe resource optimization concepts, describe Hyper-Threading, use transparent memory page sharing, work with balloon-driver, discuss Memory Compression, describe Hypervisor Swap, and monitor virtual machines and hosts. This course focuses primarily on how to monitor your VMware Infrastructure. In this course, you'll learn about optimizing and monitoring resources used by virtual machines (VMs) and hosts, including virtual CPUs and virtual memory. Topics include Monitoring vSphere Resources.

Lesson 10: Backup and High Availability (1.0) hour

Backup and High Availability teaches you how to describe backup scenarios, use Data Recovery, configure the Data Recovery Appliance, use VMware High Availability, plan host failover capacity, describe virtual machine recovery priority, and enable VMware Fault Tolerance (VFT). This course explores the different options by which you can back up your VMware Infrastructure. In this course, 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. Topics include Backup and High Availability.

1 Practice Exam

This course 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.