This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 8, which includes VMware ESXi 8 and VMware vCenter 8. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size.
This course is the foundation for most VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.
Objetivos
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
- Create 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
- Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines
- Manage virtual machine resource allocation
- Migrate virtual machines with vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion
- Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with vSphere High Availability (HA) and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
- Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date
Pré-Requisitos
This course has the following prerequisites:
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- System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating syste
Programa
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- vSphere and Virtualization Overview
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- Installing and Configuring ESXi
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- Deploying and Configuring vCenter
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- Configuring vSphere Networking
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- Configuring vSphere Storage
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- Deploying Virtual Machines
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- Managing Virtual Machines
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- Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters
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- Managing the vSphere Lifecycle
Course Introduction
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- Introductions and course logistics
vSphere and Virtualization Overview
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- Explain basic virtualization concepts
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- Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
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- Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
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- Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs
Installing and Configuring ESXi
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- Recognize ESXi user account best practices
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- Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client
Deploying and Configuring vCenter
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- Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter
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- Deploy vCenter Server Appliance
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- Configure vCenter settings
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- Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys
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- Create and organize vCenter inventory objects
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- Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions
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- View vCenter logs and events
Configuring vSphere Networking
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- Configure and view standard switch configurations
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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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- Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches
Configuring vSphere Storage
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- Recognize vSphere storage technologies
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- Identify types of vSphere datastores
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- Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing
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- Describe iSCSI components and addressing
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- Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi
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- Create and manage VMFS datastores
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- Configure and manage NFS datastores
Deploying Virtual Machines
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- Explain the importance of VMware Tools
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- Identify the files that make up a VM
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- Recognize the components of a VM
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- Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options
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- Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources
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- Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them
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- Create customization specifications for guest operating systems
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- Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries
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- Deploy VMs from content libraries
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- Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries
Managing Virtual Machines
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- Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances
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- Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion
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- Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations
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- Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion
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- Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots
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- Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment
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- Describe how VMs compete for resources
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- Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits
Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters
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- Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
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- View information about a vSphere cluster
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- Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster
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- Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings
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- Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster
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- Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures
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- Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster
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- Recognize vSphere HA design considerations
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- Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings
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- Configure a vSphere HA cluster
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- Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance
Managing the vSphere Lifecycle
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- Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
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- Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner
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- Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports
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- Recognize features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager
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- Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images
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- Describe how to update hosts using baselines
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- Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and update ESXi hosts
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- Update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
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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
