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VMware vSphere: What's New (V8)

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33861
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€ 1.490,-
plus VAT.
€ 1.773,10
incl. VAT.
Booking number
33861
Venue
Online
1 appointment
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In this two-day, hands-on course, you will learn about the new features and improvements in VMware vCenter Server® 8 and VMware ESXi™ 8 using practical deployment scenarios.
Contents

Course introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Aims of the course

Artificial intelligence and machine learning

  • How device groups support AI and ML in vSphere 8
  • How device virtualization extensions support AI and ML in vSphere 8

vSphere Engine for distributed services

  • Advantages of the Distributed Services Engine
  • How the Distributed Services Engine works
  • Use cases for Distributed Services Engine
  • Installation of ESXi on a host equipped with a DPU
  • Display DPU information in the vSphere Client
  • Add an ESXi host equipped with a DPU to a cluster
  • Updating an ESXi host equipped with a DPU with vSphere Lifecycle Manager
  • Create a vSphere Distributed Switch for network offloads
  • Adding a host with a DPU to the vSphere distributed switch
  • Configuring a VM to use the Uniform Passthrough Mode

vSphere and vCenter management

  • Check the improvements in communication between vCenter and ESXi hosts
  • Review improvements to the vCenter recovery process

ESXi improvements

  • Function of the central configuration memory in ESXi
  • How ConfigStore affects the interaction with ESXi configuration files
  • Supported system storage partition configuration in ESXi 8.0
  • Identify devices supported by ESXi 8.0 for system storage
  • Configuration of a local RDMA host device under ESXi

vSphere storage

  • vSAN Express storage architecture
  • Advantages of the vSAN Express storage architecture
  • Advantages of using NVMe
  • Support for NVMe devices in vSphere

Guest operating system and workloads

  • Improvements to the latest virtual hardware versions
  • Description of the functions introduced with virtual hardware version 20
  • Creating a snapshot of a VM with an NVDIMM device

Resource management

  • View energy and carbon emission metrics in vRealize Operations Manager
  • VMware vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation (vMMR) function
  • How vMMR improves the performance of vSphere DRS

Security and compliance

  • How vTPM secrets are handled when cloning a VM
  • Manage OVF templates for VMs configured with vTPM
  • Providing an OVF template with vTPM
  • Improvements in the enforcement of trusted binaries in ESXi
  • Extended security functions of ESXi 8

vSphere Lifecycle Manager

  • Enhancements for the lifecycle management of standalone ESXi hosts
  • Manage configuration profiles of ESXi hosts in a cluster with vSphere Lifecycle Manager
  • Use Auto Deploy to boot a host with the desired image and configuration specifications
  • Parallel upgrade of multiple ESXi hosts in a cluster
  • Deploying an ESXi host image before recovery

Automatic provision

  • Manage custom host certificates with Auto Deploy

vSphere with Tanzu

  • Functions of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0 offering

Announcement of vSphere+

  • Features and benefits of vSphere+

This course requires completion of the following course or equivalent knowledge and experience administering ESXi and vCenter Server: VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8].

Your benefit
  • Recognize the importance of key features and enhancements in vSphere 8.0
  • Describe vCenter Server, VMware ESXi, storage, virtual machines, and security enhancements in vSphere 8.0
  • Knowledge about the purpose of the vSphere Distributed Services Engine
  • Updating an ESXi host equipped with a Data Processing Unit (DPU) with vSphere Lifecycle Manager
  • Identify devices that are supported for system storage under ESXi 8.0
  • Recognize improvements to VM hardware compatibility settings
  • VMware vSphere storage monitoring and remediation and the improvements to vSphere DRS
  • Recognize the new Virtual Non-Uniform Memory Access (vNUMA) topology settings of a VM in vSphere Client
  • Using vSphere Lifecycle Manager and Auto Deploy to manage the configuration specifications for the hosts in a cluster
  • Recognize the enhancements of vSphere Lifecycle Manager and Auto Deploy in vSphere 8.0
  • Recognize the cloud benefits that VMware vSphere+ offers for on-premises workloads
  • Recognize technologies that are deprecated or obsolete in vSphere 8.0
trainer
Erich Popp
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

System architects, system administrators, IT managers, VMware partners and individuals responsible for implementing and managing vSphere architectures who want to deploy vSphere 8.0 in their existing vSphere environment.

Start dates and details

Form of learning

Learning form

7.8.2025
Online
Places free
Implementation secured
Online
Places free
Implementation secured

This training is conducted in cooperation with the authorized training organization Digicomp Academy AG.
For the purpose of conducting the training, participants' data will be transmitted to them and processed there under their own responsibility.
Please take note of the corresponding privacy policy.

Do you have questions about training?
Call us on +49 761 595 33900 or write to us at service@haufe-akademie.de or use the contact form.