Course Overview
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 7. 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.
Product Alignment
- VMware ESXi 8.0
- VMware vCenter 8.0
Who should attend
- System administrators
- System engineers
Prerequisites
This course has the following prerequisites:
- 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
- Course Introduction
- vSphere and Virtualization Overview
- vCenter Management
- Configure and Manage vSphere Networking
- Configure and Manage vSphere Storage
- Deploying Virtual Machines
- Managing Virtual Machines
- vSphere Cluster Management
- Managing the vSphere Lifecycle
- Network Operations
- Storage Operations
- ESXi Operations
- vSphere Monitoring