VMware vSphere 8.0 with ESXi and vCenter
This powerful 5-day class is an intensive introduction to VMware vSphere™ 8.0 including VMware ESXi™ 8.0 and vCenter™ 8.0. This course has been completely updated to reflect the most recent changes introduced in vSphere 8.0. Assuming no prior virtualization experience, this class starts with the basics and rapidly progresses to advanced topics. 45+% of class time is devoted to labs so students get the skills they need to become effective vSphere administrators.
Description
This class includes the following chapters:
- Course Introduction
- Virtualization Infrastructure Overview
- How to Install, Configure ESXi 8.0 (HoL1)
- Virtual and Physical Networking (HoL)
- Connecting to and Using NAS Shared Storage (HoL)
- Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines (HoL)
- vCenter Server Appliance (HoL)
- VM Rapid Deployment using Templates, Clones (HoL)
- VM Hotplug Virtual Hardware (HoL)
- Working with Shared Storage (HoL)
- VMware File System (VMFS) (HoL)
- ESXi and vCenter Permission Model (HoL)
- Infrastructure Monitoring with vCenter Alarms (HoL)
- Resource Management and Resource Pools (HoL)
- VMotion Migration, Cold Migration, Storage VMotion (HoL)
- Distributed Resource Scheduling Clusters (HoL)
- VM Failure Recovery with High Availability Clusters (HoL)
- VMware Lifecycle Manager (HoL)
- Managing Scalability and Performance (HoL)
- Final Thoughts
1 HoL – These chapters include a Hands-on Lab that is completed at the end of the lecture
Prerequisites
Attendees should have user, operator or administrator experience on common operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux™, Mac OS/X, etc. Experience installing, configuring and managing operating systems, storage and / or networks is helpful but not required. We assume that all attendees have a basic familiarity with PC server hardware, disk partitioning, IP addressing, O/S installation, networking, etc.