Level: | For IT professionals |
Lecturers: | Boštjan Križnič |
Provider: | VMware |
Type of provider: | VMware vSphere |
Theme: | Virtualization |
Length (days): | 5 |
Hours/day: | 8 |
Delivery method: | Instructor-led (classroom) or on-line (webinar) |
Price: | 2$ + VAT |
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.
Product Alignment
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VMware ESXi 8.0
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VMware vCenter 8.0
Who should attend
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System administrators
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System engineers
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
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Install and configure ESXi hosts
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Deploy and configure vCenter
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Use the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users
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Create virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches
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Create and configure datastores using storage technologies supported by vSphere
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Use the vSphere® Client™ to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
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Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines
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Manage virtual machine resource allocation
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Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
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Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™
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Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date
Course Content
1 Course Introduction
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Introductions and course logistics
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Course objectives
2 vSphere and Virtualization Overview
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Explain basic virtualization concepts
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Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
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Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
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Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs
3 Installing and Configuring ESXi
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Install an ESXi host
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Recognize ESXi user account best practices
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Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client
4 Deploying and Configuring vCenter
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Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter
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Deploy vCenter Server Appliance
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Configure vCenter settings
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Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys
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Create and organize vCenter inventory objects
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Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions
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View vCenter logs and events
5 Configuring vSphere Networking
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Configure and view standard switch configurations
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Configure and view distributed switch configurations
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Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches
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Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches
6 Configuring vSphere Storage
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Recognize vSphere storage technologies
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Identify types of vSphere datastores
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Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing
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Describe iSCSI components and addressing
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Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi
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Create and manage VMFS datastores
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Configure and manage NFS datastores
7 Deploying Virtual Machines
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Create and provision VMs
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Explain the importance of VMware Tools
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Identify the files that make up a VM
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Recognize the components of a VM
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Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options
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Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources
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Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them
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Clone VMs
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Create customization specifications for guest operating systems
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Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries
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Deploy VMs from content libraries
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Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries
8 Managing Virtual Machines
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Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances
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Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion
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Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations
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Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion
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Take a snapshot of a VM
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Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots
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Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment
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Describe how VMs compete for resources
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Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits
9 Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters
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Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
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View information about a vSphere cluster
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Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster
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Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings
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Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster
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Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures
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Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster
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Recognize vSphere HA design considerations
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Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings
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Configure a vSphere HA cluster
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Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance
10 Managing the vSphere Lifecycle
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Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
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Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner
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Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports
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Recognize features of VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™
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Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images
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Describe how to update hosts using baselines
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Describe ESXi images
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Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and update ESXi hosts
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Update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
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Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations
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Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware
This course has the following prerequisites:
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System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
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