VMware ESXi 80 Configure Manage Installation Guide
- June 14, 2024
- VMware
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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.
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IT SUPPORT SERVICES MANAGER – HEALTH WORLD LIMITED
Lumify Work Customised Training
- We can also deliver and customise this training course for larger groups saving your organisation time, money and resources.
- For more information, please contact us on 02 8286 9429.
COURSE SUBJECTS
- Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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PREREQUISITES
This course requires the following prerequisites:
- System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
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