This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 8, which includes VMware ESXi 8 and VMware vCenter 8. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. This course is the foundation for most VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.

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Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Install and configure ESXi hosts
Deploy and configure vCenter
Use the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users
Create virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches
Create and configure datastores using storage technologies supported by vSphere
Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines
Manage virtual machine resource allocation
Migrate virtual machines with vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion
Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with vSphere High Availability (HA) and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date

1
  • COURSE INTRODUCTION

  • Introductions and course logistics

    Course objectives


2
  • VSPHERE AND VIRTUALIZATION OVERVIEW

  • Explain basic virtualization concepts

    Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure

    Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere

    Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs


3
  • INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING ESXI

  • Install an ESXi host

    Recognize ESXi user account best practices

    Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client


4
  • DEPLOYING AND CONFIGURING VCENTER

  • Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter

    Deploy vCenter Server Appliance

    Configure vCenter settings

    Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys

    Create and organize vCenter inventory objects

    Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions

    View vCenter logs and events


5
  • CONFIGURING VSPHERE NETWORKING

  • Configure and view standard switch configurations

    Configure and view distributed switch configurations

    Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches

    Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches


6
  • CONFIGURING VSPHERE STORAGE

  • Recognize vSphere storage technologies

    Identify 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


7
  • DEPLOYING VIRTUAL MACHINES

  • Create and provision VMs

    Explain the importance of VMware Tools

    Identify the files that make up a VM

    Recognize the components of a VM

    Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options

    Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources

    Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them

    Clone VMs

    Create customization specifications for guest operating systems

    Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries

    Deploy VMs from content libraries

    Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries


8
  • MANAGING VIRTUAL MACHINES

  • Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances

    Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion

    Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations

    Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion

    Take a snapshot of a VM

    Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots

    Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment

    Describe how VMs compete for resources

    Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits


9
  • DEPLOYING AND CONFIGURING VSPHERE CLUSTERS

  • Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA

    View information about a vSphere cluster

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

    Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings

    Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster

    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

    Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance


10
  • MANAGING THE VSPHERE LIFECYCLE

  • Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster

    Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner

    Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports

    Recognize features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager

    Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images

    Describe how to update hosts using baselines

    Describe ESXi images

    Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and update ESXi hosts

    Update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager

    Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations

    Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware


Audience

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Language

English

Prerequisites

This course has the following prerequisites: System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

$4,250

Length: 5.0 days (40 hours)

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