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VI120: VMware™ vSphere 8: Install, Configure, Manage

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.