VMware: Install, Configure, Manage (v8)

Description

This five-day VMware course features intensive handson 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.

What will you learn

VMware training course details

Systems administrators and engineers.

Introduction to data communications & networking.
Windows/Linux Administration.

5 days

Introductions and course logistics. Course objectives

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, Recognize ESXi user account best
practices, Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI
and VMware Host Client

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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