VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage v8.0

This course, equivalent to 5 days of training, 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.

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

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 

• Create 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 

• Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines 

•  Manage virtual machine resource allocation 

•  Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® 

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

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

•  System Administrators 

•  System Engineers

This course has the following prerequisites: 

•  System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems (v7)

Outline:                               

Module 1:  Course Information

• Introductions and course logistics 

• Course objectives 

Module 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 

Module 3:   Installing and Configuring ESXi 

•  Install an ESXi host 

•  Recognize ESXi user account best practices 

•  Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client 

Module 4:  Deploying and Configuring vCenter 

•  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 

Module 5:   Configuring 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

Module 6:   Configuring 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 

Module 7:   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 

Module 8:  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 

Module 9:  Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters 

•  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 

Module 10:  Managing the vSphere Lifecycle 

• 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 VMware 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

LAB OUTLINE

• Lab 1: Accessing the Lab Environment
• Lab 2: Configuring an ESXi Host
• Lab 3: Adding vSphere Licenses
• Lab 4: Creating and Managing the vCenter Inventory
• Lab 5: Adding an Identity Source
• Lab 6: Users Groups and Permissions
• Lab 7: Creating Standard Switches
• Lab 8: Configuring vSphere Distributed Switches
• Lab 9: Accessing iSCSI Storage
• Lab 10: Managing VMFS Datastores
• Lab 11: Accessing NFS Storage
• Lab 12: Creating and Removing a Virtual Machine
• Lab 13: Installing VMware Tools
• Lab 14: Adding Virtual Hardware
• Lab 15: Modifying Virtual Machines
• Lab 16: Creating Templates and Deploying VMs
• Lab 17: Using Local Content Libraries
• Lab 18: Using Subscribed Content Libraries
• Lab 19: Versioning VM Templates in Content Libraries
• Lab 20: vSphere vMotion Migrations
• Lab 21: vSphere Storage vMotion Migrations
• Lab 22: Working with Snapshots
• Lab 23: Controlling VM Resources
• Lab 24: Implementing vSphere DRS Clusters
• Lab 25: Configuring vSphere HA
• Lab 26: Using vSphere Lifecycle Manager