VI120: VMware™ vSAN 8: Management and Troubleshooting

Training: Virtualization

The five-day seminar VI120 VMware™ vSphere 8: Install, Configure, Manage focuses on the installation, configuration and management of VMware™ vSphere 8 as well as on VMware™ ESXi 8 and VMware™ vCenter 8. You will be prepared to manage a vSphere infrastructure for an enterprise of any size.

The content of this course has been integrated into the training VI112 VMware™ vSphere 8.x Fundamentals.

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Agenda:

  • Overview of vSphere and virtualization
    • Explanations of basic virtualization concepts
    • Description of how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and cloud infrastructure
    • Understanding the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
    • Explanation of how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs

  • ESXi Installation and Configuration
    • Installation of an ESXi host
    • Learning best practices for ESXi user accounts
    • Configuration of ESXi host settings using DCUI and VMware™ Host Client

  • vCenter Deployment and Configuration
    • Learning how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter
    • Using the vCenter Server Appliance
    • Configuration vCenter settings
    • Using the vSphere Client to create and manage license keys
    • Creating and organizing vCenter inventory objects
    • Explanation of rules for applying vCenter permissions
    • Review of vCenter logs and events

  • vSphere Networking Configuration
    • Setting up and viewing standard switch configurations
    • Setting up and viewing distributed switch configurations
    • Review of differences between standard switches and distributed switches
    • Explanation of how network policies are defined for standard and distributed switches

  • Configure vSphere networks
    • Understanding vSphere storage technologies
    • Identifying vSphere data storage types
    • Review of Fibre Channel components and addressing
    • Handling iSCSI components and addressing
    • Configuring iSCSI storage on ESXi
    • Setting up and managing VMFS data stores
    • Setting up and managing NFS data stores

  • Deploying virtual machines
    • Setup and deployment VMs
    • Explaining the importance of VMware™ Tools
    • Identifying the files that make up a VM
    • Examining the components of a VM
    • Navigating the vSphere Client and checking VM settings and options
    • Modifying VMs by dynamically increasing resources
    • Creating VM templates and deploying VMs from these templates
    • Cloning VMs
    • Creating customization specifications for guest operating systems
    • Creating local, published, and subscribed content libraries
    • Deploying VMs from content libraries
    • Managing multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries

  • Virtual Machine Management
    • Coverage of types of VM migrations you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances
    • Migrating VMs with vSphere vMotion
    • Consider the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations
    • Migration of VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion
    • Create a snapshot of a VM
    • Managing, consolidating, and deleting snapshots
    • Handle CPU and memory concepts in the context of a virtualized environment
    • Review of how VMs compete for resources
    • Defining CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits

  • Deploying and configuring vSphere clusters
    • Creation of a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
    • Viewing information about a vSphere cluster
    • Explaining how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster
    • Review use cases for vSphere DRS settings
    • Monitoring a vSphere DRS cluster
    • Examine how vSphere HA responds to different types of failures
    • Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster
    • Recognize vSphere HA design considerations
    • Discuss use cases for different vSphere HA settings
    • Configuration of a vSphere HA cluster
    • Recognizing when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance

  • Managing the vSphere lifecycle
    • Activating a vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
    • Discuss the features of the vCenter Update Planner
    • Performing vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports
    • Discuss the features of the vSphere Lifecycle Manager
    • Distinguishing between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images
    • Updating hosts using baselines - describing ESXi images
    • Checking the compliance of ESXi hosts using a cluster image and updating ESXi hosts
    • Updating ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
    • Handling automatic recommendations from vSphere Lifecycle Manager
    • Using vSphere Lifecycle Manager to update VMware™ tools and VM hardware

Objectives:

After completion of this training VI120 VMware™ vSphere 8: Install, Configure, Manage participants know the functionality of vSphere 8 and have the following skills:

  • Installing and configuring ESXi hosts
  • Deploying a vCenter and configuration
  • Creating the vCenter inventory and assigning roles to vCenter users using the vSphere client
  • Creating virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches
  • Building and configuring datastores with storage technologies supported by vSphere
  • Creating virtual machines, templates, clones and snapshots using the vSphere client
  • Creating content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines
  • Managing resource allocation for virtual machines
  • Migrating virtual machines using vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion
  • Building and configuring a vSphere cluster enabled with vSphere High Availability (HA) and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
  • Lifecycle Management to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts and virtual machines up to date

Target audience:

The training VI120 VMware™ vSphere 8: Install, Configure, Manage is targeted at:

  • System administrators
  • System engineers

Prerequisites:

To be able to follow the learning content of the course VI120 VMware™ vSphere 8: Install, Configure, Manage effectively, you should already have experience in system administration under Microsoft™ Windows or Linux operating systems.
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The examination fee is not included in the price. However, it can be booked at Pearson VUE.

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