Training: VMware vSphere v8 – What’s New

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Duration:

2

days

Exam:

Not certifying

Level:

Fundamental

Funding:

Eligible

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Description

In this two-day course, you 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.

Participant Profiles

System architects
System administrators
IT managers

Objectives

Recognize the importance of key features and enhancements in vSphere 8.0
Describe vCenter Server, VMware ESXi, storage, virtual machine, and security enhancements in vSphere 8.0
Describe the purpose of vSphere Distributed Services Engine
Update an ESXi host equipped with a Data Processing Unit (DPU) using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Identify devices supported for system storage on ESXi 8.0
Recognize enhancements to VM hardware compatibility settings
VMware vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation and the improvements to vSphere DRS
Recognize the new Virtual Non-Uniform Memory Access (vNUMA) topology settings of a VM in vSphere Client
Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager and Auto Deploy to manage the configuration specifications for the hosts in a cluster
Recognize the vSphere Lifecycle Manager and Auto Deploy enhancements in vSphere 8.0
Recognize the cloud benefits that VMware vSphere+ brings to on-premises workloads
Recognize technology that is discontinued or deprecated in vSphere 8.0

Prerequisites

Experience in administration with ESXi and vCenter Server
Completion of one of the following courses, or equivalent knowledge: “VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage”, “VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale”,”VMware vSphere: Fast Track” or”VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting”
Experience with working at the command line is helpful

Course Content

Module 1: Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

Module 2: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Describe how device groups support AI and ML in vSphere 8
Describe how device virtualization extensions support AI and ML in vSphere 8

Module 3: vSphere Distributed Services Engine

Describe the benefits of Distributed Services Engine
Explain how Distributed Services Engine works
Recognize 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
Update an ESXi host equipped with a DPU using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
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

Module 4: vSphere and vCenter Management

Review the improvements to the communication between vCenter and ESXi hosts
Review the enhancements to the vCenter recovery process

Module 5: ESXi Enhancements

Describe the function of the central configuration store in ESXi
Explain how ConfigStore affects your interaction with ESXi configuration files
Recognize 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

Module 6: vSphere Storage

Describe the vSAN Express Storage Architecture
Recognize the benefits of using vSAN Express Storage Architecture
Describe the benefits of using NVMe
Recognize the support for NVMe devices in vSphere

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 11: Auto Deploy

Manage custom host certificates using Auto Deploy

Module 12: vSphere with Tanzu

Describe the features of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0 offering

Module 13: Announcing vSphere+

Describe the functionality and benefits of vSphere+

Documentation

Official VMware digital courseware

Lab / Exercises

Official VMware Labs

Complementary Courses

Eligible Funding

ITTA is a partner of a continuing education fund dedicated to temporary workers. This fund can subsidize your training, provided that you are subject to the “Service Provision” collective labor agreement (CCT) and meet certain conditions, including having worked at least 88 hours in the past 12 months.