VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]
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Duration
5 Days
Modality
Live Online
Course code
EDU-VSICM8-OE
Course Overview
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.
Course Objectives
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® ClientTM 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 SchedulerTM
- Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to dateSXi hosts and virtual machines
Target Audience
- System administrators
- System engineers.
Prerequisites
This course has the following prerequisites:
- System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
Product Alignment
- VMware ESXi 8.0
- VMware vCenter 8.0
Target Audience
- System administrators
- System engineers.
Prerequisites
This course has the following prerequisites:
- System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
Product Alignment
- VMware ESXi 8.0
- VMware vCenter 8.0
Module Breakdown - For a course module breakdown click here
Module 1
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Module 2
Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Centre
- Explain basic virtualisation concepts
- Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
- Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage
- Recognise the user interfaces for accessing the vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts
- Describe the ESXi host architecture
- Navigate the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) to configure an ESXi host
- Recognise ESXi host user account best practices
- Install an ESXi host
- Use VMware Host ClientTM to configure ESXi host settings
- Describe how to proactively manage your vSphere environment using VMware Skyline
Module 3
Virtual Machines
- Create and provision a virtual machine
- Explain the importance of VMware ToolsTM
- Install VMware Tools
- Identify the files that make up a VM
- Recognise the components of a VM
- Recognise virtual devices supported by a VM
- Describe the benefits and use cases for containers
- Identify the parts of a container system.
Module 4
vCenter Server
- Describe the vCenter Server architecture
- Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
- Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
- Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server inventory
- Add data centre, organisational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server
- Use roles and permissions to enable users to access objects in the vCenter Server inventory
- Back up vCenter Server Appliance
- Monitor vCenter Server tasks, events, and appliance health
- Use VMware vCenter Server® High Availability to protect a vCenter Server Appliance
Module 5
Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
- Create and manage standard switches
- Describe the virtual switch connection types
- Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping, and load-balancing policies
- Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches
Module 6
Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
- Identify storage protocols and storage device types
- Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores
- Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Recognise the components of a VMware vSANTM configuration
Module 7
Virtual Machine Management
- Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
- Modify and manage virtual machines
- Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library
- Use customisation specification files to customise a new virtual machine
- Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
- Describe the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility feature
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
- Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® ReplicationTM
- Describe the benefits of VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Data Protection
Module 8
Resource Management and Monitoring
- Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualised environment
- Describe what overcommitment of a resource means
- Describe methods for optimising CPU and memory usage
- Use various tools to monitor resource use
- Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events
Module 9
vSphere Clusters
- Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
- Create a vSphere DRS cluster
- Monitor a vSphere cluster configuration
- Describe options for making a vSphere environment highly available
- Explain the vSphere HA architecture
- Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
- Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
- Describe the function of the vSphere® Cluster Service
Module 10
vSphere Lifecycle Management
- Recognise the importance of vCenter Server Update Planner
- Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle ManagerTM works
- Describe how to update ESXi hosts using baselines
- Validate ESXi host compliance using a cluster image
- Describe how to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware
- Describe VMware vSphere® Lifecycle ManagerTM and VMware vSANTM integration
