MECER VM-VICM8 VMWARE Vsphere Installation Guide

VM-VICM8 VMWARE Vsphere

DURATION

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LEVEL

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TECHNOLOGY

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DELIVERY

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TRAINING CREDITS

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5 Days

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Professional

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VMware

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ILT / VILT

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PSO

INTRODUCTION

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 Server® 8. This course prepares you to administer a  vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size.

This course is the foundation for most of the other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.

AUDIENCE PROFILE

This course is intended for:

− System administrators

− System engineers

PREREQUISITES

This course has the following prerequisites:

− System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

COURSE OBJECTIVES

After completing this course, delegates will be able to:

− 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® ClientTM 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 VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®

− Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware  vSphere® Distributed Resource SchedulerTM

− Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date

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 VMware  vSphere® Lifecycle ManagerTM

− 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

ASSOCIATED CERTIFICATION & EXAM

VCP-DCV 2023 certification exam # 2V0-21.23 – validates a candidate’s ability to install, configure, manage, operate  and maintain a vSphere 8.x infrastructure.

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