VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V8]

Five fast-paced days take you from vSphere 8 fundamentals to confident day-to-day administration.

5 daysIntermediate10 modules

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Overview

About this course

Five fast-paced days take you from vSphere 8 fundamentals to confident day-to-day administration. You will install and configure ESXi and vCenter, build standard and distributed switches and datastores, deploy and manage virtual machines, templates and content libraries, and migrate workloads with vMotion and Storage vMotion. You will also run clusters with HA, DRS and Fault Tolerance, keep hosts compliant with Lifecycle Manager and monitor performance.

What you'll learn

Install and configure VMware ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
Create and manage virtual machines, templates, and content libraries
Migrate workloads using vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion
Configure and maintain clusters with High Availability, DRS, and Fault Tolerance
Monitor, update, and ensure compliance using vSphere Lifecycle Manager

Curriculum

10 modules

Welcome, introductions, and course logistics
Review of course objectives

Core concepts of virtualization
Role of vSphere in the software-defined data center and cloud infrastructure
Interfaces used to access vSphere
How vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs
Installation of an ESXi host

Communication between ESXi hosts and vCenter
Deploying and configuring the vCenter Server Appliance
Adjusting vCenter settings and managing license keys
Creating and organizing vCenter inventory objects
Applying vCenter permissions and understanding rules
Viewing vSphere tasks and events
Setting up vCenter backup schedules
Importance and operation of vCenter High Availability

Configuring and viewing standard switch setups
Configuring and viewing distributed switch setups
Differences between standard and distributed switches
Applying networking policies on standard and distributed switches
Configuring and managing vSphere distributed switches
Using Network I/O Control to improve performance
Introduction to vSphere Distributed Services Engine and its use cases

Overview of vSphere storage technologies
Types of vSphere datastores
Fibre Channel components and addressing
iSCSI components and addressing, including configuration on ESXi
Creating and managing VMFS datastores
Configuring and managing NFS datastores
Support for NVMe and iSER technologies
Architecture and requirements for vSAN
Policy-based storage management
vSphere Virtual Volumes architecture
Configuring Storage I/O Control

Creating and provisioning VMs
Role and importance of VMware Tools
Files and components that make up a VM
Exploring VM settings and options in the vSphere Client
Dynamically increasing VM resources
Creating VM templates and deploying from them
Cloning virtual machines
Creating customization specifications for guest operating systems
Creating local, published, and subscribed content libraries
Deploying VMs from content libraries
Managing multiple template versions in content libraries

Types of VM migrations within and across vCenter instances
Using vSphere vMotion and Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
Migrating VMs with vSphere Storage vMotion
Creating, managing, and deleting snapshots
CPU and memory concepts in virtualized environments
Resource competition among VMs
Shares, reservations, and limits for CPU and memory
Role and configuration of a VMware Tools Repository
Backup and restore options for VMs

Using Cluster Quickstart to enable vSphere cluster services
Viewing and interpreting cluster information
How vSphere DRS determines VM placement
DRS settings and use cases
Monitoring a DRS cluster
vSphere HA response to different failures
Network redundancy options in a HA cluster
Use cases for HA settings
Configuring clusters with HA and DRS
When to use vSphere Fault Tolerance
Function of vCLS and its impact on operations

Generating vCenter interoperability reports
Features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager
ESXi images and image depots
Enabling Lifecycle Manager in a cluster
Validating host compliance and remediation with Lifecycle Manager
Automatic recommendations in Lifecycle Manager
Upgrading VMware Tools and VM hardware with Lifecycle Manager
Managing ESXi configuration compliance with host profiles
Benefits of using configuration profiles

Key factors that impact VM performance
Factors that influence vCenter performance
Using vCenter tools to monitor resource consumption
Creating and managing custom alarms in vCenter
Benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
Use cases for Skyline Advisor Pro

Who it's for

Windows or Linux system administrators who want to become productive with vSphere 8 quickly.

Before you start

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

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