VMware vSphere: What's New [V8]

n this 2-day course, you will explore the new features and enhancements in VMware vCenter® 8.0, VMware ESXi™ 8.0, and VMware vSphere® 8.0. Through use-case scenarios, demonstrations, labs, and simulations, you develop skills to implement and configure vSphere 8.0.

Who Can Benefit

• System architects, system administrators, IT managers, VMware partners, and individuals responsible for implementing and managing vSphere architectures who want to deploy vSphere 8.0 into their existing vSphere environment.

Skills Gained

• By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Recognize the importance of key features and enhancements in vSphere 8.0
• Describe the purpose of VMware vSphere® Distributed Services Engine™
• Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to update an ESXi host that has a data processing unit (DPU)
• Identify devices supported for system storage on ESXi 8.0
• Recognize enhancements to VM hardware compatibility settings
• Recognize changes related to vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation that improve VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™
• Describe the new virtual non-uniform memory access (vNUMA) topology settings in the VMware vSphere® Client™
• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager and VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to manage configuration specifications for hosts in a cluster
• Recognize vSphere Lifecycle Manager and Auto Deploy enhancements in vSphere 8.0
• Describe new cluster management features in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0
• Recognize the cloud benefits that VMware vSphere+ brings to on-premises workloads
• Identify discontinued or deprecated features and technology in vSphere 8.0

Prerequisites

• This course requires completion of one of the following courses, or equivalent knowledge, plus administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server:
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale
• VMware vSphere: Fast Track
• VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting
• Experience with working at the command line is helpful.
• Array
• 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 VMware vSphere 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 VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster
• Configure and manage a VMware vSphere High Availability cluster
• Use VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager to perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and VMs

Course Content

Course Modules

• Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Describe how device groups support AI and ML in
• vSphere 8.0
• Describe how device virtualization extensions
• support AI and ML in vSphere 8.0

• vSphere Distributed Services Engine
• Describe the benefits of Distributed Services
• Engine
• Explain how Distributed Services Engine works
• Recognize use cases for Distributed Services Engine
• Install ESXi on a host equipped with a DPU
• View DPU information in the vSphere Client
• Add an ESXi host equipped with a DPU to a cluster
• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to update an ESXi
• host that contains a DPU
• Create a vSphere distributed switch for network
• offloads
• Add a host with a DPU to the vSphere distributed
• switch
• Configure a VM to use uniform passthrough mode

• vSphere and vCenter Management
• Describe improvements to the communication
• between vCenter and ESXi hosts
• Describe enhancements to the vCenter recovery
• process

• ESXi Enhancements
• Describe the function of the central configuration
• store in ESXi
• Explain how ConfigStore affects interaction with
• ESXi configuration files
• Recognize the supported system storage partition
• configuration on ESXi 8.0
• Identify devices supported for system storage on
• ESXi 8.0
• Configure an RDMA host local device on ESXi 8.0

• vSphere Storage
• Describe the VMware vSAN� Express Storage
• Architecture
• Recognize the benefits of using vSAN Express
• Storage Architecture
• Describe the benefits of using NVMe
• Recognize the support for NVMe devices in vSphere 8.0

• Guest OS and Workloads
• Review the enhancements of the latest virtual
• hardware versions
• Describe the features introduced with virtual
• hardware version 20
• Identify the snapshot modes of NVDIMM devices

• Resource Management
• View energy and carbon emission metrics in
• VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™
• Describe the vSphere Memory Monitoring and
• Remediation (vMMR) functionality
• Describe how vMMR enhances the performance of
• DRS

• Security and Compliance
• Describe how to manage vTPM secrets when
• cloning a VM
• Manage OVF templates for VMs configured with
• vTPM
• Deploy an OVF template with vTPM
• Describe the enhancements to trusted binary
• enforcement in ESXi
• Describe ESXi 8.0 enhanced security features

• vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Describe the enhancements to life cycle
• management of standalone ESXi hosts
• Manage the configuration profiles of ESXi hosts in a
• cluster
• Use Auto Deploy to boot a host with the desired
• image and configuration specifications
• Upgrade multiple ESXi hosts in a cluster in parallel
• Stage an ESXi host image before remediation

• Auto Deploy
• Manage custom host certificates using Auto Deploy

• vSphere with Tanzu
• Describe the features of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0 offering

• Announcing vSphere+
• Describe the functionality and benefits of vSphere+