VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (V8)

COURSE BRIEF

Course Name:   VMware vSphere Install, Configure, Manage (V8)   

Duration:           5 Days

Delivery Method: Classroom / Virtual Instructor-Led training

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® 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

Taret Audience

·        System administrators

·        System engineers

Course Outline

1 Course Introduction

·        Introductions and course logistics

·        Course objectives

2 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

3 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

4 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

5 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

6 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

7 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

8 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

9 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

10 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

Prerequisites

This course has the following prerequisites:

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems