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.