Introduction
This five-day, extended hour course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere 8 management skills. Building on the installation and configuration content from our best-selling course, you will also develop advanced skills needed to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you will install, configure, and manage vSphere 8. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size using vSphere 8, which includes VMware ESXi 8 and VMware vCenter Server 8.
Audience profile
This course is intended primarily for:
System administrators
System engineers
Pre-requisites
In addition to their professional experience, students who attend this training should already have the following technical knowledge:
System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
Course objectives
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
• Configure vCenter High Availability
• Create and configure 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
• Configure and manage a VMware Tools Repository
• Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines
• Manage virtual machine resource use
• Migrate virtual machines with vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion
• Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with vSphere High Availability and
vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
• Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to
date
• Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated
enterprise
• Use host profiles to manage VMware ESXi host compliance
• Monitor the vCenter, ESXi, and VMs performance in the vSphere client
Course content
| Session 1: vSphere and Virtualization Overview |
- Explain basic virtualization concepts
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- Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
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- Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
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- Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs
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| Session 2: vCenter Management |
- Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter
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- View vSphere tasks and events
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- Configure vCenter settings
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- Explain how vCenter High Availability works
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| Session 3: Deploying Virtual Machines |
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- Create customization specifications for guest operating systems
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- Explain the importance of VMware Tools
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- Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries
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- Recognize the components of a VM
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- Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources
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| Session 4: Configure and Manage vSphere Networking |
- Configure and view standard switch configurations
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- Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches
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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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| Session 5: Configure and Manage vSphere Storage |
- Recognize vSphere storage technologies
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- Create and manage VMFS datastores
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- Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing
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- Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies
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| Session 6: Managing Virtual Machines |
- Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances
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- Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment
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- Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations
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- Recognize the backup and restore solution for VMs
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| Session 7: vSphere Monitoring |
- Monitor the key factors that can affect a virtual machine’s performance
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- Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
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- Use vCenter tools to monitor resource use
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- Recognize uses for Skyline Advisor Pro
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| Session 8: Deploying and Configuring vSphere Cluster |
- Use Cluster Quickstart to enable vSphere cluster services and configure the cluster
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- Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster
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- Monitor a vSphere DRS cluste
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- Recognize operations that might disrupt the healthy functioning of vCLS VMs
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| Session 9: ESXi Operations |
- Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
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- Recognize the benefits of using configuration profiles
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| Session 10: Managing the vSphere Lifecycle |
- Generate vCenter interoperability reports
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- Describe ESXi images and image depots
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- Recognize features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager
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- Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
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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
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| Session 11: Network Operations |
- Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
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- Describe how VMware vSphere Network I/O Control enhances performance
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- Define vSphere Distributed Services Engine
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- Describe the use cases and benefits of vSphere Distributed Services Engine
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| Session 12: Storage Operations |
- Describe the architecture and requirements of vSAN configuration
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- Describe storage policy-based management
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- Recognize components in the vSphere Virtual Volumes architecture
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- Configure Storage I/O Control
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Associated certifications and exam
The 2V0-21.23 VMware vSphere 8.x Professional exam validates a candidate’s ability to install, configure, manage, operate and maintain a vSphere 8.x infrastructure, and is associated with the VCP-DCV 2023 – VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization 2023 certification.
This certification validates an individual’s knowledge and skills with VMware vSphere solutions, including virtual machines, networking, and storage. Job-roles associated with this certification include virtualization administrators, system engineers, and consultants.
