VMware vSphere Install Configure Manage 8

• System administrators • System engineers

This course has the following prerequisites:

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

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

1 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

2 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

3 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

4 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

5 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

6 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

7 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

8 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