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 8. 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.
Product Alignment
VMware ESXi 8.0
VMware vCenter 8.0
System engineers and administrators involved in the deployment and administration of a vSphere environment.
By actively participating in this course, you will learn about the following:
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.
It is recommended that delegates have System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.
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
Install an ESXi host
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
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
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
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
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
vSphere Cluster Management
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
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
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
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
ESXi Operations
Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
Recognize the benefits of using configuration profiles
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
2VO-21.23 Vmware vSphere 8.x Professional required for VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2023 certification.
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