VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]
About Course
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] certification is a professional credential that validates a practitioner’s proficiency in deploying and managing VMware vSphere environments. This involves the handling of vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, virtual machines, storage, networking, and more. It is about managing and configuring vSphere V8, which is a key part of VMware’s cloud infrastructure. This certification is highly valued by industries because it guarantees the ability of an IT professional to efficiently manage, install, and configure VMware environments, improving the operational efficiency and reducing costs. This is crucial in today’s digitized world where businesses depend heavily on efficient IT infrastructures.
Course Prerequisites
• Knowledge in Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
• System administration experience on Microsoft, Linux or UNIX operating systems
• Basic knowledge of networking and storage fundamentals
• Familiarity with VMware vSphere concepts.
What will you learn?
Module 1: Course Introduction
- 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 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
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VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] Skills Measured
After completing VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] certification training, an individual can gain skills in installing, configuring and managing a VMware vSphere solution, which includes VMware ESXi 8 and VMware vCenter Server 8. They will also know how to administer vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size using vSphere Web Client. The training equips attendees with expertise in deploying a scalable vSphere infrastructure, promoting availability and managing resources efficiently. Ultimately, it prepares them to administer a vSphere solution effectively in their organizations.
Learning Objectives – What you will Learn in this VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] Course?
The learning objectives of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] course include understanding the methodology and navigation of the vSphere Client, learning how to install and configure ESXi and vCenter Server, and managing virtual machines using various tools and libraries. Participants will gain the ability to apply patches using VMware vSphere Update Manager, oversee and manage resource usage, and implement various high availability solutions. Additionally, understanding and controlling user access to the virtual infrastructure, understanding and performing basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations are integral parts of this course.