VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V8]

Course Overview

This five-day, extended hour course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere® 8 management skills. Building on the installation and configuration content from our best-selling course, you will also develop advanced skills needed to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and handson labs, you will install, configure, and manage vSphere 8. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size using vSphere 8, which includes VMware ESXi™ 8 and VMware vCenter Server® 8.

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

• Configure vCenter High Availability

• Create and configure 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

• Configure and manage a VMware Tools Repository

• Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines

• Manage virtual machine resource use

• Migrate virtual machines with vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion

• Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with vSphere High Availability and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler

• Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date

• Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise

• Use host profiles to manage VMware ESXi host compliance

• Monitor the vCenter, ESXi, and VMs performance in the vSphere client

Target Audience

• System administrators

• System engineers

Prerequisites

This course has the following prerequisites:

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Certification

Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification:

• VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)

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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

• Install an ESXi host

3 vCenter Management

• 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 vSphere tasks and events

• Create a vCenter backup schedule

• Recognize the importance of vCenter High Availability

• Explain how vCenter High Availability works

4 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

5 Configure and Manage 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 Configure and Manage 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

• Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies

7 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

• Recognize the role of a VMware Tools Repository

• Configure a VMware Tools Repository

• Recognize the backup and restore solution for VMs