{"course":{"productid":30911,"modality":1,"active":true,"language":"en","title":"VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V8]","productcode":"VSFT8","vendorcode":"VM","vendorname":"VMware","fullproductcode":"VM-VSFT8","courseware":{"has_ekit":true,"has_printkit":false,"language":""},"url":"https:\/\/portal.flane.ch\/course\/vmware-vsft8","objective":"<p>By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install and configure ESXi hosts<\/li><li>Deploy and configure vCenter<\/li><li>Use the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users<\/li><li>Configure vCenter High Availability<\/li><li>Create and configure virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches<\/li><li>Create and configure datastores using storage technologies supported by vSphere<\/li><li>Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots<\/li><li>Configure and manage a VMware Tools Repository<\/li><li>Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines<\/li><li>Manage virtual machine resource use<\/li><li>Migrate virtual machines with vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion<\/li><li>Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with vSphere High Availability and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler<\/li><li>Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date<\/li><li>Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise<\/li><li>Use host profiles to manage VMware ESXi host compliance<\/li><li>Monitor the vCenter, ESXi, and VMs performance in the vSphere client<\/li><\/ul>","essentials":"<p>This course has the following prerequisites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems<\/li><\/ul>","audience":"<ul>\n<li>System administrators<\/li><li>System engineers<\/li><\/ul>","contents":"<ul>\n<li>Course Introduction<\/li><li>vSphere and Virtualization Overview<\/li><li>vCenter Management<\/li><li>Configure and Manage vSphere Networking<\/li><li>Configure and Manage vSphere Storage<\/li><li>Deploying Virtual Machines<\/li><li>Managing Virtual Machines<\/li><li>vSphere Cluster Management<\/li><li>Managing the vSphere Lifecycle<\/li><li>Network Operations<\/li><li>Storage Operations<\/li><li>ESXi Operations<\/li><li>vSphere Monitoring<\/li><\/ul>","outline":"<h5>1 Course Introduction<\/h5><ul>\n<li>Introductions and course logistics<\/li><li>Course objectives<\/li><\/ul><h5>2 vSphere and Virtualization Overview<\/h5><ul>\n<li>Explain basic virtualization concepts<\/li><li>Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure<\/li><li>Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere<\/li><li>Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs<\/li><li>Install an ESXi host<\/li><\/ul><h5>3 vCenter Management<\/h5><ul>\n<li>Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter<\/li><li>Deploy vCenter Server Appliance<\/li><li>Configure vCenter settings<\/li><li>Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys<\/li><li>Create and organize vCenter inventory objects<\/li><li>Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions<\/li><li>View vSphere tasks and events<\/li><li>Create a vCenter backup schedule<\/li><li>Recognize the importance of vCenter High Availability<\/li><li>Explain how vCenter High Availability works<\/li><\/ul><h5>4 Configure and Manage vSphere Networking<\/h5><ul>\n<li>Configure and view standard switch configurations<\/li><li>Configure and view distributed switch configurations<\/li><li>Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches<\/li><li>Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches<\/li><\/ul><h5>5 Configure and Manage vSphere Storage<\/h5><ul>\n<li>Recognize vSphere storage technologies<\/li><li>Identify types of vSphere datastores<\/li><li>Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing<\/li><li>Describe iSCSI components and addressing<\/li><li>Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi<\/li><li>Create and manage VMFS datastores<\/li><li>Configure and manage NFS datastores<\/li><li>Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies<\/li><\/ul><h5>6 Deploying Virtual Machines<\/h5><ul>\n<li>Create and provision VMs<\/li><li>Explain the importance of VMware Tools<\/li><li>Identify the files that make up a VM<\/li><li>Recognize the components of a VM<\/li><li>Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options<\/li><li>Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources<\/li><li>Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them<\/li><li>Clone VMs<\/li><li>Create customization specifications for guest operating systems<\/li><li>Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries<\/li><li>Deploy VMs from content libraries<\/li><li>Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries<\/li><\/ul><h5>7 Managing Virtual Machines<\/h5><ul>\n<li>Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances<\/li><li>Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion<\/li><li>Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations<\/li><li>Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion<\/li><li>Take a snapshot of a VM<\/li><li>Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots<\/li><li>Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment<\/li><li>Describe how VMs compete for resources<\/li><li>Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits<\/li><li>Recognize the role of a VMware Tools Repository<\/li><li>Configure a VMware Tools Repository<\/li><li>Recognize the backup and restore solution for VMs<\/li><\/ul><h5>8 vSphere Cluster Management<\/h5><ul>\n<li>Use Cluster Quickstart to enable vSphere cluster services and configure the cluster<\/li><li>View information about a vSphere cluster<\/li><li>Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster<\/li><li>Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings<\/li><li>Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster<\/li><li>Describe how vSphere HA responds to different types of failures<\/li><li>Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster<\/li><li>Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings<\/li><li>Configure a cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA<\/li><li>Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance<\/li><li>Describe the function of the vCLS<\/li><li>Recognize operations that might disrupt the healthy functioning of vCLS VMs<\/li><\/ul><h5>9 Managing the vSphere Lifecycle<\/h5><ul>\n<li>Generate vCenter interoperability reports<\/li><li>Recognize features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager<\/li><li>Describe ESXi images and image depots<\/li><li>Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster<\/li><li>Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and remediate ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager<\/li><li>Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations<\/li><li>Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware<\/li><\/ul><h5>10 Network Operations<\/h5><ul>\n<li>Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches<\/li><li>Describe how VMware vSphere Network I\/O Control enhances performance<\/li><li>Define vSphere Distributed Services Engine<\/li><li>Describe the use cases and benefits of vSphere Distributed Services Engine<\/li><\/ul><h5>11 Storage Operations<\/h5><ul>\n<li>Describe the architecture and requirements of vSAN configuration<\/li><li>Describe storage policy-based management<\/li><li>Recognize components in the vSphere Virtual Volumes architecture<\/li><li>Configure Storage I\/O Control<\/li><\/ul><h5>12 ESXi Operations<\/h5><ul>\n<li>Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance<\/li><li>Recognize the benefits of using configuration profiles<\/li><\/ul><h5>13 vSphere Monitoring<\/h5><ul>\n<li>Monitor the key factors that can affect a virtual machine&#039;s performance<\/li><li>Describe the factors that influence vCenter performance<\/li><li>Use vCenter tools to monitor resource use<\/li><li>Create custom alarms in vCenter<\/li><li>Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline<\/li><li>Recognize uses for Skyline Advisor Pro<\/li><\/ul>","summary":"<p>This five-day, extended hour course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere&reg; 8 management skills. Building on the installation and configuration content from our best-selling course, you will also develop advanced skills needed to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you will install, configure, and manage vSphere 8. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size using vSphere 8, which includes VMware ESXi&trade; 8 and VMware vCenter Server&reg; 8.<\/p>\n<p>Product Alignment<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VMware ESXi 8.0<\/li><li>VMware vCenter 8.0<\/li><\/ul>","objective_plain":"By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:\n\n\n- Install and configure ESXi hosts\n- Deploy and configure vCenter\n- Use the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users\n- Configure vCenter High Availability\n- Create and configure virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches\n- Create and configure datastores using storage technologies supported by vSphere\n- Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots\n- Configure and manage a VMware Tools Repository\n- Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines\n- Manage virtual machine resource use\n- Migrate virtual machines with vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion\n- Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with vSphere High Availability and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler\n- Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date\n- Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise\n- Use host profiles to manage VMware ESXi host compliance\n- Monitor the vCenter, ESXi, and VMs performance in the vSphere client","essentials_plain":"This course has the following prerequisites:\n\n\n- System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems","audience_plain":"- System administrators\n- System engineers","contents_plain":"- Course Introduction\n- vSphere and Virtualization Overview\n- vCenter Management\n- Configure and Manage vSphere Networking\n- Configure and Manage vSphere Storage\n- Deploying Virtual Machines\n- Managing Virtual Machines\n- vSphere Cluster Management\n- Managing the vSphere Lifecycle\n- Network Operations\n- Storage Operations\n- ESXi Operations\n- vSphere Monitoring","outline_plain":"1 Course Introduction\n\n\n- Introductions and course logistics\n- Course objectives\n2 vSphere and Virtualization Overview\n\n\n- Explain basic virtualization concepts\n- Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure\n- Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere\n- Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs\n- Install an ESXi host\n3 vCenter Management\n\n\n- Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter\n- Deploy vCenter Server Appliance\n- Configure vCenter settings\n- Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys\n- Create and organize vCenter inventory objects\n- Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions\n- View vSphere tasks and events\n- Create a vCenter backup schedule\n- Recognize the importance of vCenter High Availability\n- Explain how vCenter High Availability works\n4 Configure and Manage vSphere Networking\n\n\n- Configure and view standard switch configurations\n- Configure and view distributed switch configurations\n- Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches\n- Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches\n5 Configure and Manage vSphere Storage\n\n\n- Recognize vSphere storage technologies\n- Identify types of vSphere datastores\n- Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing\n- Describe iSCSI components and addressing\n- Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi\n- Create and manage VMFS datastores\n- Configure and manage NFS datastores\n- Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies\n6 Deploying Virtual Machines\n\n\n- Create and provision VMs\n- Explain the importance of VMware Tools\n- Identify the files that make up a VM\n- Recognize the components of a VM\n- Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options\n- Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources\n- Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them\n- Clone VMs\n- Create customization specifications for guest operating systems\n- Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries\n- Deploy VMs from content libraries\n- Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries\n7 Managing Virtual Machines\n\n\n- Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances\n- Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion\n- Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations\n- Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion\n- Take a snapshot of a VM\n- Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots\n- Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment\n- Describe how VMs compete for resources\n- Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits\n- Recognize the role of a VMware Tools Repository\n- Configure a VMware Tools Repository\n- Recognize the backup and restore solution for VMs\n8 vSphere Cluster Management\n\n\n- Use Cluster Quickstart to enable vSphere cluster services and configure the cluster\n- View information about a vSphere cluster\n- Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster\n- Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings\n- Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster\n- Describe how vSphere HA responds to different types of failures\n- Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster\n- Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings\n- Configure a cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA\n- Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance\n- Describe the function of the vCLS\n- Recognize operations that might disrupt the healthy functioning of vCLS VMs\n9 Managing the vSphere Lifecycle\n\n\n- Generate vCenter interoperability reports\n- Recognize features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager\n- Describe ESXi images and image depots\n- Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster\n- Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and remediate ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager\n- Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations\n- Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware\n10 Network Operations\n\n\n- Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches\n- Describe how VMware vSphere Network I\/O Control enhances performance\n- Define vSphere Distributed Services Engine\n- Describe the use cases and benefits of vSphere Distributed Services Engine\n11 Storage Operations\n\n\n- Describe the architecture and requirements of vSAN configuration\n- Describe storage policy-based management\n- Recognize components in the vSphere Virtual Volumes architecture\n- Configure Storage I\/O Control\n12 ESXi Operations\n\n\n- Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance\n- Recognize the benefits of using configuration profiles\n13 vSphere 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