1. Course Introduction 課程簡介：課程目標與基礎規範

●Introduction and course logistics.

●Course objectives.

2. vSphere Foundation Overview 核心架構概覽：定義 vSphere Foundation特色、應用場景與架構

●Define the vSphere Foundation key features.

●Explain vSphere Foundation use cases.

●Explain the architecture of vSphere Foundation.

3. vSphere Foundation Deployment 環境部署：基礎設施準備、快速安裝流程(UI/JSON)及vCenter與VCF運維組件部署

●Prepare the infrastructure for VMware vSphere Foundation. 

●Identify the information required for the Planning and Preparation Workbook.

●Explain the high-level steps to deploy vSphere Foundation.

●Describe the procedure for downloading the software using online and offline modes.

●Describe the vSphere Foundation workflow using the Quick Installer UI and JSON spec file.

●List the steps to navigate the VCF Operations UI.

●Deploy and enable VCF Operations collector, VCF Operations for Logs, and VCF Operations Orchestrator

●Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance.

4. License Management 授權管理：授權分配流程、管理與各產品使用量追蹤

●Describe the process for managing and assigning licenses.

●Enable VCF Operations integration for vCenter.

●Explain license usage by product.

5. vSphere Foundation Compute 運算資源管理(Compute)：ESXi 主機安裝、配置與vCenter庫存物件組織

●Explain basic virtualization concepts. 

●Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center. 

●Describe vSphere architecture and use cases.

●Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere. 

●Install and configure ESXi host. 

●Create and organize vCenter inventory objects

6. vSphere Foundation Networking 網路配置：標準與分散式交換器(vSwitch)設定及網路原則管理

●Create and configure standard switch. 

●Create and configure distributed switch. 

●Differentiate between standard and distributed switches. 

●Explain how to set networking policies.

7. vSphere Foundation Storage 儲存整合：各類存儲技術(Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS)配置與VMFS資料存儲管理

●Recognize vSphere storage technologies. 

●Identify the types of vSphere datastores. 

●Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing. 

●Describe iSCSI components and addressing. 

●Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi. 

●Create and manage VMFS datastores. 

●Configure and manage NFS datastores.

8. Deploying Virtual Machines 虛擬機部署：VM建立、複製、VMware Tools安裝與內容庫(Content Libraries)應用

●Create and provision VMs. 

●Explain the importance of VMware Tools. 

●Manage a virtual machine from the vSphere client.

●Manage virtual machine resources.

●List the steps to deploy virtual machines.

●Clone VMs and create customization specifications for guest operating systems.

●Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries.

9. Virtual Machine Management 虛擬機維運：虛擬機遷移(vMotion)、快照操作與資源分配(Shares/Limits)

●Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion.

●Perform snapshots operations.

●Specify CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits.

10. vSphere Clusters 叢集高可用性：配置DRS(負載平衡)與HA(高可用性)以確保服務連續性

●Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA. 

●Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster.

●Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings. 

●Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures. 

●Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster. 

●Recognize vSphere HA design considerations. 

●Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings. 

●Configure a vSphere HA cluster.

11. vSAN Management vSAN儲存管理：vSAN架構(OSA/ESA)辨析、RAID配置與物件狀態監測

●Identify the features of vSAN.

●Understand the key differences between vSAN OSA and vSAN ESA.

●Explain the role of the performance leg and the capacity leg in vSAN ESA.

●Examine vSAN ESA Object health states.

●Compare how RAID-0/1/5/6 space consumption.

●Identify vSAN component states.

12. vSphere Kubernetes Service Kubernetes容器服務：vSphere Supervisor架構部署、命名空間管理與VKS叢集維護

●Describe vSphere Supervisor Architecture and use cases.

●Explain vSphere Supervisor Deployment Options.

●Install vSphere Supervisor. 

●Explain Supervisor Storage vSphere Zones, Networking, and Storage.

●Configuring and managing a supervisor.

●Configuring vSphere Namespaces for Hosting VKS Clusters.

●Managing vSphere Kubernetes Service Clusters.

13. VCF Operations VCF運維監測：使用儀表板、報告與計量指標進行監控，並設定告警機制

●Outline the role of metrics in VCF Operations.   

●Create and configure views in VCF Operations.

●Create and configure reports in VCF Operations.

●Create and configure dashboards in VCF Operations.

●Configure widget interactions.

●Describe the purpose of using alerts.

●Identify the components of an alert definition.

●Create static symptom definitions.

14. Managing the vSphere Foundation Lifecycle 生命週期管理：執行vCenter與ESXi升級檢查，利用Lifecycle Manager維護系統更新

●Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner. 

●Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports. 

●Recognize features of VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager 

●Validate and update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager 

●Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware