VMware vSphere 8 Install, Configure, Manage

VMware vSphere 8 Install, Configure, Manage Course Overview

Course 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

Included with this course

• • Comprehensive course materials and exercises

VMware vSphere 8 Install, Configure, Manage Course Content

• 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
  Recognise 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 Manager™
  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