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VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]

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...

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$4,250 USD GSA  $3,639.80
Course Code EDU-VSICM8
Duration 5 days
Available Formats Classroom, Virtual

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.

Skills Gained

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

  • Install and configure ESXi hosts
  • Deploy and configure vCenter
  • Use the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users
  • Create 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
  • Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines
  • Manage virtual machine resource allocation
  • Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
  • Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™
  • Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date

Who Can Benefit

  • System administrators
  • System engineers

Prerequisites

This course has the following prerequisites:

  • System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
  • Understanding of basic datacenter infrastructure, enterprise networking, and storage concepts

Course Details

Course Modules

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 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

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

Managing the vSphere Lifecycle

  • Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere
  • cluster
  • Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner
  • Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and
  • interoperability reports
  • Recognize features of VMware vSphere® Lifecycle
  • ManagerTM
  • Distinguish between managing hosts using
  • baselines and managing hosts using images
  • Describe how to update hosts using baselines
  • Describe ESXi images
  • Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster
  • image and update ESXi hosts
  • Update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle
  • Manager
  • Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic
  • recommendations
  • Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade
  • VMware Tools and VM hardware
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