VMware ESXi 80 Configure Manage Installation Guide

VMware ESXi 80 Configure Manage

VMWARE AT LUMIFY WORK
VMware is the world leader in server virtualisation technologies. Lumify Work is a VMware Education Reseller Partner (VERP), offering training in vSphere, vRealize, vSAN, Horizon, NSX-T, Workspace ONE, Carbon Black, and other VMware technologies and platforms.

WHY STUDY THIS COURSE

This 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.

Product Alignment:

• VMware ESXi 8.0
• VMware vCenter 8.0

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

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
  • My instructor was great being able to put scenarios into real world instances that related to my specific situation.
  • I was made to feel welcome from the moment I arrived and the ability to sit as a group outside the classroom to discuss our situations and our goals was extremely valuable.
  • I learnt a lot and felt it was important that my goals by attending this course were met.
  • Great job Lumify Work team.

AMANDA NICOL
IT SUPPORT SERVICES MANAGER – HEALTH WORLD LIMITED

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COURSE SUBJECTS

1. Course Introduction
   • Introductions and course logistics
   • Course objectives
2. vSphere and Virt ualisat ion Overview
   • Explain basic virtualisation concepts
   • Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
   • Recognise the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
   • Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs
3. Installing and Configuring ESXi
   • Install an ESXi host
   • Recognise ESXi user account best practices
   • Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client
4. Deploying and Configuring vCenter
   • Recognise ESXi hosts communication with vCenter
   • Deploy vCenter Server Appliance
   • Configure vCenter settings
   • Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys
   • Create and organise vCenter inventory objects
   • Recognise the rules for applying vCenter permissions View vCenter logs and events
5. Configuring vSphere Net working
   • Configure and view standard switch configurations
   • Configure and view distributed switch configurations
   • Recognise the difference between standard switches and distributed switches
   • Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches
6. Configuring vSphere Storage
   • Recognise 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
7. Deploying Virtual Machines
   • Create and provision VMs
   • Explain the importance of VMware Tools
   • Identify the files that make up a VM
   • Recognise 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 customisation 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
8. Managing Virtual Machines
   • Recognise 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 virtualised environment
   • Describe how VMs compete for resources
   • Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits
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
   • Recognise 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
   • Recognise vSphere HA design considerations
   • Recognise the use cases for various vSphere HA settings
   • Configure a vSphere HA cluster
   • Recognise when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance
10. Managing the vSphere Lif ecycle
    • Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
    • Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner
    • Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports
    • Recognise features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager
    • 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

WHO IS THE COURSE FOR

• System administrators
• Systems engineers

We can also deliver and cust omise t his t raining course f or larger groups – saving your organisat ion t ime, money and resources. For more inf ormat ion, please cont act us via email on ph.training@lumifywork.com.

PREREQUISITES

This course requires the following prerequisites:

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

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