What are the tasks to set when studying virtualization?

Question

System administration

Set out to learn virtualization on vmware. There is a weak server with vSphere hypervisor 5.5, it has several virtual machines. Naturally, I can do the most basic things, create a virtual machine, snapshots, veeam backups. Since there are no tasks related to this topic at work, there is no way to study in combat mode, I want to independently comprehend the maximum possible within the framework of the equipment I have.

Could you give me a list of tasks that I could solve and thereby pump.

Answer 1

You can't do much within a single ESXi server. Work on the possibility of filing either a more powerful server, inside which you can install several virtual ESXi, inside which virtual machines will already work, or install at least a couple of servers with ESXi. Then it will be possible to connect these ESXi to vCenter and try migration, distributed switch and many other technologies that vSphere can do.
In addition to everything that the colleague said above - understand VLANs and the principles of networking in vSphere:
As far as disks are concerned, "static" and "dynamic" disks are called differently in vSphere. This is in the terminology of Vari (and all other hypervisors, as well as vendors of storage equipment) called "thick disks" and "thin disks". Understand the difference between "Eager zeroed thick disk", "Lazy zeroed thick disk", "thin disk".