This five-day, extended hour course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere® 8 management skills. Building on the installation and configuration content from our best-selling course, you will also develop advanced skills needed to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you will install, configure, and manage vSphere 7. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size using vSphere 8, which includes VMware ESXi™ 8 and VMware vCenter Server® 8.

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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
Configure vCenter High Availability
Create and configure 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
Configure and manage a VMware Tools Repository
Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines
Manage virtual machine resource use
Migrate virtual machines with vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion
Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with vSphere High Availability and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date
Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
Use host profiles to manage VMware ESXi host compliance
Monitor the vCenter, ESXi, and VMs performance in the vSphere client

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

    Install an ESXi host

3

  • VCENTER MANAGEMENT

  • 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 vSphere tasks and events

    Create a vCenter backup schedule

    Recognize the importance of vCenter High Availability

    Explain how vCenter High Availability works

4

  • 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

5

  • CONFIGURE AND MANAGE 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

  • CONFIGURE AND MANAGE 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

    Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies

7

  • 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

    Recognize the role of a VMware Tools Repository

    Configure a VMware Tools Repository

    Recognize the backup and restore solution for VMs

8

  • VSPHERE MONITORING

  • Monitor the key factors that can affect a virtual machine's performance

    Describe the factors that influence vCenter performance

    Use vCenter tools to monitor resource use

    Create custom alarms in vCenter

    Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline

    Recognize uses for Skyline Advisor Pro

9

  • DEPLOYING AND CONFIGURING VSPHERE CLUSTER

  • Use Cluster Quickstart to enable vSphere cluster services and configure the cluster

    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 different types of failures

    Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster

    Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings

    Configure a cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA

    Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance

    Describe the function of the vCLS

    Recognize operations that might disrupt the healthy functioning of vCLS VMs

10

  • ESXI OPERATIONS

  • Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance

    Recognize the benefits of using configuration profiles

11

  • MANAGING THE VSPHERE LIFECYCLE

  • Generate vCenter interoperability reports

    Recognize features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager

    Describe ESXi images and image depots

    Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster

    Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and remediate ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager

    Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations

    Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware

12

  • NETWORK OPERATIONS

  • Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches

    Describe how VMware vSphere Network I/O Control enhances performance

    Define vSphere Distributed Services Engine

    Describe the use cases and benefits of vSphere Distributed Services Engine

13

  • STORAGE OPERATIONS

  • Describe the architecture and requirements of vSAN configuration

    Describe storage policy-based management

    Recognize components in the vSphere Virtual Volumes architecture

    Configure Storage I/O Control

Audience

System administrators System engineers

Language

English

Prerequisites

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

$6,475

Length: 5.0 days (40 hours)

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