VMware vSphere: Fast Track V8 VSFT8 Objectives

Key Point of Training Programs

• VMware vSphere: Fast Track V8 VSFT8 Outline

  1. Course Introduction:

  - Introductions and course logistics
  - Course objectives

  2. vSphere and Virtualisation Overview:

  - Explain basic virtualisation concepts
  - Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data centre and the cloud infrastructure
  - Recognise the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
  - Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs
  - Install an ESXi host

  3. vCenter Management:

  - Recognise ESXi hosts' communication with vCenter
  - Deploy vCenter Server Appliance
  - Configure vCenter settings
  - Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys
  - Create and organise vCenter inventory objects
  - Recognise the rules for applying vCenter permissions
  - View vSphere tasks and events
  - Create a vCenter backup schedule
  - Recognise the importance of vCenter High Availability
  - Explain how vCenter High Availability works

  4 Configure and Manage vSphere Networking:

  - Configure and view standard switch configurations
  - Configure and view distributed switch configurations
  - Recognise the difference between standard switches and distributed switches
  - Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches

  5. Configure and Manage vSphere Storage:

  - Recognise 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
  - Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies

  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
  - Recognize the role of a VMware Tools Repository
  - Configure a VMware Tools Repository
  - Recognize the backup and restore solution for VMs

  8. vSphere Cluster Management

  - Use Cluster Quickstart to enable vSphere cluster services and configure the cluster
  - 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 different types of failures
  - Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster
  - Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings
  - Configure a cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
  - Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance
  - Describe the function of the vCLS
  - Recognize operations that might disrupt the healthy functioning of vCLS VMs

  9. Managing the vSphere Lifecycle

  - Generate vCenter interoperability reports
  - Recognize features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager
  - Describe ESXi images and image depots
  - Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
  - Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and remediate ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
  - Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations
  - Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware

  10. Network Operations

  - Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
  - Describe how VMware vSphere Network I/O Control enhances performance
  - Define vSphere Distributed Services Engine
  - Describe the use cases and benefits of vSphere Distributed Services Engine

  11. Storage Operations

  - Describe the architecture and requirements of vSAN configuration
  - Describe storage policy-based management
  - Recognise components in the vSphere Virtual Volumes architecture
  - Configure Storage I/O Control

  12. ESXi Operations

  - Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
  - Recognize the benefits of using configuration profiles

  13. vSphere Monitoring

  - Monitor the key factors that can affect a virtual machine's performance
  - Describe the factors that influence vCenter performance
  - Use vCenter tools to monitor resource use
  - Create custom alarms in vCenter
  - Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
  - Recognise uses for Skyline Advisor Pro

• VMware vSphere: Fast Track V8 VSFT8 Course Format

  Live Virtual Course

• VMware vSphere: Fast Track V8 VSFT8 Prerequisites

  This course has the following prerequisites:
  - System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems