Explore the new features and enhancements following VMware vCenter Server 8.0 and VMware ESXi 8.0. Real-world use-case scenarios, hands-on lab exercises, and lectures teach you the skills that you need to effectively implement and configure VMware vSphere 8.0.
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What you’ll learn
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Recognise the importance of key features and enhancements in vSphere 8.0
Describe the purpose of VMware vSphere® Distributed Services Engine™
Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to update an ESXi host that is equipped with a data processing unit (DPU)
Identify devices supported for system storage on ESXi 8.0
Recognise enhancements to VM hardware compatibility settings
Recognise changes related to vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation that improve VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™
Describe the new virtual non-uniform memory access (vNUMA) topology settings in the VMware vSphere® Client™
Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager and VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to manage configuration specifications for hosts in a cluster
Recognise vSphere Lifecycle Manager and Auto Deploy enhancements in vSphere 8.0
Recognise the cloud benefits that VMware vSphere+ brings to on-premises workloads
Identify technology that is discontinued or deprecated in vSphere 8.0
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Train Anywhere
From our state-of-the-art classrooms to telepresence to your offices, our instructor-led training caters to your needs.
Track Record
We have a 30-year history of driving innovative, award-winning learning solutions.
More Courses, More Often
When you train with Lumify Work you get more courses, more often, in more locations, and from more vendors.
Quality Instructors and Content
Expert instructors with real world experience and the latest vendor-approved in-depth course content.
Partner-Preferred Supplier
Chosen and awarded by the world's leading vendors as preferred training partner.
Ahead of the Technology Curve
No matter your chosen technologies or platforms, we can help you stay one step ahead.
Train Anywhere
From our state-of-the-art classrooms to telepresence to your offices, our instructor-led training caters to your needs.
Track Record
We have a 30-year history of driving innovative, award-winning learning solutions.
More Courses, More Often
When you train with Lumify Work you get more courses, more often, in more locations, and from more vendors.
Who is the course for?
System architects, system administrators, IT managers, VMware partners, and individuals responsible for implementing and managing vSphere architectures who want to deploy vSphere 8.0 into their existing vSphere environment.
Course subjects
1. Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
2. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Describe how device groups support AI and ML in vSphere 8
Describe how device virtualisation extensions support AI and ML in vSphere 8
3. vSphere Distributed Services Engine
Describe the benefits of Distributed Services Engine
Explain how Distributed Services Engine works
Recognise use cases for Distributed Services Engine
Install ESXi on a host equipped with a DPU
View DPU information in vSphere Client
Add an ESXi host equipped with a DPU to a cluster
Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to update an ESXi host that contains a DPU
Create a vSphere Distributed Switch for network offloads
Add a host with a DPU to the vSphere Distributed Switch
Configure a VM to use Uniform Passthrough Mode
4. vSphere and vCenter Management
Review the improvements to the communication between vCenter and ESXi hosts
Review the enhancements to the vCenter recovery process
5. ESXi Enhancements
Describe the function of the central configuration store in ESXi
Explain how ConfigStore affects your interaction with ESXi configuration files
Recognise the supported system storage partition configuration on ESXi 8.0
Identify devices supported for system storage on ESXi 8.0
Configure an RDMA host local device on ESXi
6. vSphere Storage
Describe the vSAN Express Storage Architecture
Recognise the benefits of using vSAN Express Storage Architecture
Describe the benefits of using NVMe
Recognise the support for NVMe devices in vSphere
7. Guest OS and Workloads
Review the enhancements of the latest virtual hardware versions
Describe the features introduced with virtual hardware version 20
Create a snapshot of a VM with an NVDIMM device
8. Resource Management]
View energy and carbon emission metrics in vRealize Operations Manager
Describe the VMware vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation (vMMR) functionality
Describe how vMMR enhances the performance of vSphere DRS
9. Security and Compliance
Describe how to handle vTPM secrets when cloning a VM
Manage OVF templates for VMs that are configured with vTPM
Deploy an OVF template with vTPM
Describe the enhancements to trusted binary enforcement in ESXi
Describe ESXi 8 enhanced security features
10. vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Describe the enhancements to life cycle management of standalone ESXi hosts
Manage the configuration profiles of ESXi hosts in a cluster with vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Use Auto Deploy to boot a host with the desired image and configuration specifications
Upgrade multiple ESXi hosts in a cluster in parallel
Stage an ESXi host image prior to remediation
11. Auto Deploy
Manage custom host certificates using Auto Deploy
12. vSphere with Tanzu
Describe the features of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0 offering
13. Announcing vSphere+
Describe the functionality and benefits of vSphere+
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of one of the following courses, or equivalent knowledge, plus administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server:
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