VM-VICM8 VMWARE Vsphere
Product Information
This product is a professional course offered by VMware. The
course is designed for system administrators and system engineers
who have experience in system administration on Microsoft Windows
or Linux operating systems. It provides an overview of vSphere and
virtualization, covering topics such as installation and
configuration of ESXi, deploying and configuring vCenter,
configuring vSphere networking and storage, deploying virtual
machines, managing virtual machines, and deploying and configuring
vSphere clusters.
Product Usage Instructions
Follow the instructions below to use this product:
- Module 1: Course Introduction
- Introduce yourself and familiarize yourself with the course
logistics. - Understand the course objectives.
- Introduce yourself and familiarize yourself with the course
- Module 2: vSphere and Virtualization Overview
- Learn about basic virtualization concepts.
- Understand how vSphere fits into the software-defined data
center and the cloud infrastructure. - Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere.
- Learn how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks,
storage, and GPUs.
- Module 3: Installing and Configuring ESXi
- Install an ESXi host.
- Follow ESXi user account best practices.
- Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host
Client.
- Module 4: Deploying and Configuring vCenter
- Understand how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter.
- Deploy the vCenter Server Appliance.
- Configure vCenter settings.
- Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys.
- Create and organize vCenter inventory objects.
- Understand the rules for applying vCenter permissions.
- View vCenter logs and events.
- Module 5: Configuring vSphere Networking
- Configure and view standard switch configurations.
- Configure and view distributed switch configurations.
- Understand the difference between standard switches and
distributed switches. - Learn how to set networking policies on standard and
distributed switches.
- Module 6: Configuring vSphere Storage
- Understand 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.
- Module 7: Deploying Virtual Machines
- Create and provision virtual machines (VMs).
- Understand the importance of VMware Tools.
- Identify the files that make up a VM.
- Recognize the components of a VM.
- Navigate the vSphere Client.
- Module 8: 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.
- Understand 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.
- Understand 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 types of VM migrations that you can perform
- Module 9: Deploying and Configuring vSphere
Clusters- Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere
HA. - View information about a vSphere cluster.
- Understand how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in
the cluster. - Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings.
- Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster.
- Understand 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.
- Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere
5 Days
Professional
VMware
ILT / VILT
PSO
This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 8, which includes VMware ESXiTM 8 and VMware vCenter Server® 8. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. This course is the foundation for most of the other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.
This course is intended for: – System administrators – System engineers
This course has the following prerequisites: – System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
After completing this course, delegates will be able to:
– 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® ClientTM 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 VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® – Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware
vSphere® Distributed Resource SchedulerTM – Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date
Module 1: Course Introduction
– Introductions and course logistics
– Course objectives
Module 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
Module 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
Module 4: 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
Module 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
Module 6: 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
Module 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
Module 8: 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
Module 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
Module 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
VCP-DCV 2023 certification exam # 2V0-21.23 – validates a candidate’s ability to install, configure, manage, operate and maintain a vSphere 8.x infrastructure.
