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 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.

Who Can Benefit

• System administrators
• System engineers

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

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 Content

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