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VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (V8)

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In this 5-day VMware course you will learn how to install, configure and manage VMware vSphere 8, including VMware ESXi 8 and VMware vCenter 8.
Contents

This course provides intensive hands-on training that focuses on the installation, configuration and management of VMware vSphere 8, including VMware ESXi 8 and VMware vCenter Server 8. The training prepares you to manage a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. It is the foundation for most other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.

 

1. course introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics  
  • Course objectives  

 

2. overview of vSphere and virtualization  

  • Explanation of basic virtualization concepts  
  • Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and cloud infrastructure  
  • Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere  
  • Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage and GPUs  

3. installation and configuration of ESXi  

  • Installation of an ESXi host  
  • Recognize best practices for ESXi user accounts  
  • Configuring the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and the VMware Host Client  

 

4. deployment and configuration of vCenter  

  • Detect the communication of ESXi hosts with vCenter  
  • Deployment of the vCenter Server appliance  
  • Configuration of the vCenter settings  
  • Using the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys  
  • Create and organize vCenter inventory objects  
  • Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions  
  • View logs and events in your system  

 

5. configuration of vSphere Networking  

  • Configuration and display of standard switch configurations  
  • Configuration and display of distributed switch configurations  
  • Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches  
  • Explain how to set network policies for standard and distributed switches

 

6. configuration of vSphere Storage  

  • Recognize vSphere storage technologies  
  • Identify the types of vSphere datastores  
  • Describing the Fibre Channel components and addressing  
  • Describing the iSCSI components and addressing  
  • Configuration of iSCSI storage on ESXi  
  • Creating and managing VMFS data stores  
  • Configuring and managing NFS data stores  

 

7. provision of virtual machines

  • Creation and provision of VMs
  • Explaining the importance of VMware tools
  • Identify the files that make up a VM
  • Recognize the components of a VM
  • Navigation in the vSphere Client and checking the VM settings and options
  • Change VMs by dynamically increasing the resources
  • Create VM templates and deploy VMs from these templates
  • Cloning VMs
  • Creating customization specifications for guest operating systems
  • Create local, published and subscribed content libraries
  • Provision of VMs from content libraries
  • Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries

 

8. management of virtual machines

  • Recognize the types of VM migrations you can perform within a vCenter instance and between vCenter instances
  • Migration of VMs with vSphere vMotion
  • Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations
  • Migration of VMs with vSphere Storage vMotion
  • Creating a snapshot of a VM
  • Manage, consolidate and delete snapshots
  • Describe CPU and memory concepts in the context of a virtualized environment
  • Describe how VMs can compete for resources
  • Defining CPU and memory shares, reservations and limits

 

9. deployment and configuration of vSphere clusters

  • Create a vSphere cluster that is enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
  • Displaying information about a vSphere cluster
  • Explain how vSphere DRS determines the placement of VMs on hosts in the cluster
  • Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings
  • Monitoring 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 design considerations for a vSphere HA cluster
  • Recognize the use cases for different settings in a vSphere HA system
  • Configuring a cluster with activated functionality for High Availability (vSphere HA)
  • Determine when you should use Fault Tolerance in an environment

 

10. management of the vSphere lifecycle

  • Activating vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
  • Describing the functions of the vCenter Update Planner
  • Run vCenter upgrade pre-checks and interoperability reports
  • Recognize the features of VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™
  • Distinguish between managing hosts via baselines and managing hosts via images
  • Describe how you can update hosts using baselines
  • Writing ESXi images
  • Verify compliance of ESXi hosts with a cluster image and update these hosts
  • Updating ESXi hosts with the vSphere Lifecycle Manager
  • Describe the automatic recommendations of the vSphere Lifecycle Manager
  • Using the vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware tools and VM hardware

 

Requirements:

Experience in system administration of Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems is required.

Additional info: 

Official "VMware by Broadcom" training.

Your benefit
  • Installing and configuring ESXi hosts
  • Deploying and configuring vCenter
  • Using the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users
  • Creating virtual networks with vSphere standard switches and distributed switches
  • Create and configure datastores with storage technologies supported by vSphere
  • Using the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones and snapshots
  • Create content libraries for template management and virtual machine provisioning
  • Manage resource allocation for virtual machines
  • Migrating virtual machines with vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion
  • Create and configure a vSphere cluster enabled with vSphere High Availability (HA) and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
  • Manage the lifecycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts and virtual machines up to date
trainer
Erich Popp
Daniel Chroszcz
Methods

This course consists of training training and is led by a trainer who supervises the participants live. Theory and practice are taught with live demonstrations and practical exercises. The video conferencing software Zoom is used.

Final examination
Recommended for

This course is aimed at system administrators and system engineers.
 

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This training is conducted in cooperation with the training organization Digicomp Academy AG.
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The illustrations were created in cooperation between humans and artificial intelligence. They show a future in which technology is omnipresent, but people remain at the center.
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