VMware vSphere: Install Configure Manage v8.0
- 5 Days Course
- Language: English
Introduction:
As organizations adopt cloud and virtual infrastructure at scale, VMware vSAN™ remains the backbone of hyperconverged deployments. This training course teaches you to plan and deploy a production-ready vSAN cluster, with a deep focus on operational efficiency, security, and ongoing maintenance. You’ll build the skills to configure, manage, and troubleshoot vSAN environments using VMware vSphere, while gaining experience with vSAN architecture, storage policy design, and advanced cluster maintenance techniques—all reinforced through hands-on labs and real-world scenarios.
Objectives:
This VMware vSAN V8 training course equips professionals with the tools and knowledge to deploy, operate, and support vSAN clusters across complex environments. Participants will explore key design principles, policy-based storage management, and essential security operations.
Understand core vSAN architecture and software components
Plan and deploy scalable vSAN environments with hardware compatibility in mind
Configure vSAN fault domains, storage policies, and deduplication settings
Perform Day 2 tasks such as cluster maintenance, node replacement, and upgrades
Apply troubleshooting best practices using VMware Skyline Health and IOInsight
Work with stretched clusters, HCI Mesh, and File Services
Enable and maintain vSAN security features like encryption and key management
Course Outline:
1 Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
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
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
4 Deploying and Configuring vCenter
- Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter
- 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
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
6 Configuring vSphere Storage
- Recognize vSphere storage technologiesv
- 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
- 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
8 Managing Virtual Machines
- Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instancesv
- 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
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
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
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$4,250.00