VMware vSphere 8.0 with ESXi and vCenter (VM7431)
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Outline
Module 1: Virtualization Infrastructure Overview
- Virtualization explained
- How virtualization solves common issues with workload management
- Overview of VMware vSphere software components and features
- What's New in vSphere 8.0
Module 2: Stand Alone ESXi
- Understanding ESXi
- Selecting, validating and preparing your server
- Software installation and best practices
- Join ESXi to a Domain
- Local User Management and Policies
- Managing ESXi hosts with Host Client
Module 3: Networking
- vNetwork standard virtual Switches
- Virtual Switches, Ports and Port Groups
- Creating and configuring VMkernel NICs for ESXi networking
- vSwitch pNIC teaming for performance and reliability
Module 4: NAS Storage
- Shared Storage benefits
- NFS Overview
- Configuring ESXi to use NFS shares
- NFS Use Cases
- Troubleshooting NFS common problems
Module 5: Virtual Machines
- VM virtual hardware, options and maximums
- Sizing and creating a new VM
- Assigning, modifying and removing Virtual Hardware
- VMware remote console applications
- Installing an OS into a VM
- Saving and restoring a VM’s state with snapshots
Module 6: vCenter
- vCenter overview and components
- Installing and configuring vCenter Server Appliance
- Complete post-install configuration tasks using vCSA’s VAMI interface
- Connecting vCenter’s base Linux Photon OS to Active Directory
- Updating Single Sign On’s directory source database to query Active Directory
- Organizing vCenter's inventory views
- Importing ESX hosts into vCenter management
- Administering vCenter Server with HTML 5 based vSphere Client
Module 7: Templates and Clones
- Virtual Machine Golden Master rapid deployment using templates
- Creating, updating and working with Templates
- Rapid ad-hoc VM duplication using Cloning
- Best practices for cloning and templating
Module 8: Hot Plug Hardware
- Update VM vHardware with no downtime with hotplug virtual hardware
- Configuring VMs to support hotplug vCPUs and vRAM
- Hot-plugging vNICs and vDisks into a running VM
- Windows Guest OS experience when hot-pluging virtual hardware
Module 9: Permissions
- VMware Security model
- Configuring local users and groups
- Managing local permissions
- Granting access to local and Active Directory based users and groups
- How permissions are applied
Module 10: Shared Storage
- Fibre SAN overview
- World Wide Names and LUN identifiers
- Fibre Soft Zoning and Hard Zoning
- iSCSI overview
- Virtual and physical iSCSI adapters
- Configuring ESXi’s iSCSI software adaptor
- Scanning and rescanning iSCSI volumes
- Performance and redundancy considerations and best practices
- Storage and storage network design and best practices
- Understanding the benefits of VMware VAAI compliant storage
Module 11: VMFS
- VMFS 6 features and benefits
- Creating new VMFS datastores
- Managing VMFS capacity with LUN spanning and LUN expansion
- Native and 3rd party Multipathing including policies, benefits and use cases
- VMFS performance, design and configuration tips
Module 12: Alarms
- Alarm categories and definitions
- Creating custom alarms and setting alarm actions
- Configure vCenter so it can send E-mail and SNMP alerts
- Reviewing existing alarms and acknowledging them
- Identify the most useful alarms to review and enable
Module 13: Resource Pools
- Delegate compute resources in bulk using Resource Pools
- How ESXi delivers resources to VMs
- Compute resource tunes - Shares, Reservations and Limits
- Configure and test predictable compute resource delegations
Module 14: VM Migration
- Cold Migrations to new ESX hosts, datastores
- Hot VM compute state migrations between ESXi hosts with VMotion
- VMotion requirements and dependencies
- How VMotion works – detailed explanation
- How to test ESXi hosts and VMs for VMotion compatibility
- Hot VM disk state migrations between datastores with Storage VMotion
Module 15: Distributed Resource Scheduling Clusters
- Automatic CPU and Memory resource balancing clusters with VMware DRS
- DRS Cluster configuration and tuning
- Per-VM cluster policy overrides
- Features, benefits and use cases for Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC)
- Configuring Per-VM EVC
Module 16: High Availability Clusters
- High Availability options to minimize unplanned VM down time due to infrastructure issues
- VMware HA policies to protect against ESXi host, storage network and SAN volume failures
- Admission Control for guaranteed compute resource availability after a host failure
- Heartbeat Datastores to quickly resolve host isolation vs. host failure situations
Module 17: VMware Lifecycle Manager
- Configure and enable VMware Lifecycle Manager
- Create an ESXi host upgrade baseline
- Checking ESXi host compliance with attached host upgrade baselines
- How to upgrade ESXi 7.0 hosts to ESXi 8.0 using VLM
Module 18: Performance
- VMkernel CPU and memory resource management mechanisms
- Tuning VM storage I/O performance
- Identifying and resolving resource contention
- Monitoring VM and ESX host performance
- Performance and capacity planning strategies
Module 19: Final Thoughts
- What to virtualize and what not to virtualize
- VM guest OS security in a virtual environment
- How to protect VMs and their data from unauthorized copying
- Useful books, white papers and online resources
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