In this three-day, hands-on training course, you explore the new features and enhancements in VMware vCenter Server® 7 and VMware ESXi™ 7. Real-world use-case deployment scenarios, hands-on lab exercises, and lectures teach you the skills that you need to effectively implement and configure VMware vSphere® 7.
- This course is recommended for customers who want to deploy vSphere 7 in their existing vSphere environment.
Skills Gained
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- List and describe the importance of key features and enhancements in vSphere 6.7 update releases and Sphere 7
- Determine the proper upgrade path for a vCenter Server instance and upgrade VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ to version 7
- Migrate a Windows vCenter Server system to vCenter Server Appliance 7
- Manage and update VM templates located in content libraries
- Use Identity Federation to configure vCenter Server to use Microsoft ADFS
- Use the VMware vSphere® Client™ to manage certificates
- Describe vCenter Server, VMware ESXi™, storage, network, virtual machine, and security enhancements in vSphere 7
- Use VMware vSphere® Trust Authority™ to secure the infrastructure for encrypted VMs
- Demonstrate the Quickstart feature of the ESXi cluster
- Recognize improvements to VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™
- Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to manage vSphere deployments, updates, and configurations
- Discuss the purpose and capabilities of VMware vSphere® with Kubernetes and how it fits into the VMware Tanzu™ portfolio
Who Can Benefit
System architects, system administrators, IT managers, VMware partners, and individuals responsible for implementing and managing vSphere architectures.
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of one the following courses or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server: VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage, VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale, VMware vSphere: Fast Track, or VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting. The course material presumes that you can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:
- Install and configure ESXi
- Install vCenter Server
- Create vCenter Server objects, such as data centers and folders
- Create and manage vCenter Server roles and permissions
- Create and modify a standard switch
- Create and modify a distributed switch
- Connect an ESXi host to NAS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel storage
- Create a VMFS datastore
- Use a content library template to create a virtual machine
- Modify a virtual machine’s hardware
- Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
- Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster
- Configure and manage a VMware vSphere® High Availability cluster
- Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches and perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and VMs
- If you cannot complete these tasks, VMware recommends that you instead take the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] course.