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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Target Audience
This course is intended for:
- System administrators
- System engineers
Outline
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
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
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
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
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
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
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 vers
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
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
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