VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V8] (VSFT8)

 

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

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

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

Outline: VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V8] (VSFT8)

1 Course Introduction
  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives
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
  • Install an ESXi host
3 vCenter Management
  • 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 vSphere tasks and events
  • Create a vCenter backup schedule
  • Recognize the importance of vCenter High Availability
  • Explain how vCenter High Availability works
4 Configure and Manage 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
5 Configure and Manage 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
  • Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies
6 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
7 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
  • Recognize the role of a VMware Tools Repository
  • Configure a VMware Tools Repository
  • Recognize the backup and restore solution for VMs
8 vSphere Cluster Management
  • Use Cluster Quickstart to enable vSphere cluster services and configure the cluster
  • 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 different types of failures
  • Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster
  • Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings
  • Configure a cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
  • Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance
  • Describe the function of the vCLS
  • Recognize operations that might disrupt the healthy functioning of vCLS VMs
9 Managing the vSphere Lifecycle
  • Generate vCenter interoperability reports
  • Recognize features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager
  • Describe ESXi images and image depots
  • Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
  • Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and remediate ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
  • Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations
  • Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware
10 Network Operations
  • Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
  • Describe how VMware vSphere Network I/O Control enhances performance
  • Define vSphere Distributed Services Engine
  • Describe the use cases and benefits of vSphere Distributed Services Engine
11 Storage Operations
  • Describe the architecture and requirements of vSAN configuration
  • Describe storage policy-based management
  • Recognize components in the vSphere Virtual Volumes architecture
  • Configure Storage I/O Control
12 ESXi Operations
  • Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
  • Recognize the benefits of using configuration profiles
13 vSphere Monitoring
  • Monitor the key factors that can affect a virtual machine's performance
  • Describe the factors that influence vCenter performance
  • Use vCenter tools to monitor resource use
  • Create custom alarms in vCenter
  • Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
  • Recognize uses for Skyline Advisor Pro

Prices & Delivery methods

Online Training

Duration
5 days

Price
  • US$ 6,475
Classroom Training

Duration
5 days

Price
  • United States: US$ 6,475

Click on town name or "Online Training" to book Schedule

This is an Instructor-Led Classroom course
Guaranteed date:   This green checkmark in the Upcoming Schedule below indicates that this session is Guaranteed to Run.
Instructor-led Online Training:   This is an Instructor-Led Online (ILO) course. These sessions are conducted via WebEx in a VoIP environment and require an Internet Connection and headset with microphone connected to your computer or laptop.
This is a FLEX course, which is delivered simultaneously in two modalities. Choose to attend the Instructor-Led Online (ILO) virtual session or Instructor-Led Classroom (ILT) session.
*   This class is delivered by a partner.

Europe

Germany

Guaranteed to Run Hamburg This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Berlin Enroll
Guaranteed to Run Berlin This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Berlin Enroll
Frankfurt This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Berlin Enroll
Munich This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Berlin Enroll
Hamburg This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Berlin Enroll
Frankfurt This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Berlin Enroll
Munich This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Berlin Enroll
Berlin This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Berlin Enroll
Hamburg This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Berlin Enroll
Munich This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Berlin Enroll
Berlin This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Berlin Enroll
Frankfurt This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Berlin Enroll

Austria

Vienna (iTLS) This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Vienna Enroll
Vienna (iTLS) This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Vienna Enroll

Italy

Milan This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Rome Enroll

Netherlands

Online Training Time zone: Europe/Amsterdam Enroll

Poland

Warsaw This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Warsaw Enroll
Warsaw This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Warsaw Enroll
Warsaw This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Warsaw Enroll
Warsaw This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Warsaw Enroll

Slovenia

Online Training Time zone: Europe/Berlin Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Berlin Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Ljubljana Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Berlin Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Berlin Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Berlin Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Ljubljana Enroll

Switzerland

Zurich This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Zurich Enroll
Zurich Enroll
Zurich This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/Zurich Enroll
Zurich Enroll
Zurich Enroll

Ukraine

Kiev Enroll
Kiev Enroll

United Kingdom

London, City This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/London Enroll
London, City This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/London Enroll
London, City This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/London Enroll
London, City This is a FLEX course. Enroll
Online Training Time zone: Europe/London Enroll