{"course":{"productid":30570,"modality":1,"active":true,"language":"en","title":"VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]","productcode":"VSICM8","vendorcode":"VM","vendorname":"VMware","fullproductcode":"VM-VSICM8","courseware":{"has_ekit":true,"has_printkit":false,"language":""},"url":"https:\/\/portal.flane.ch\/course\/vmware-vsicm8","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>Create 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&reg; Client&trade; to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots<\/li><li>Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines<\/li><li>Manage virtual machine resource allocation<\/li><li>Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere&reg; vMotion&reg; and VMware vSphere&reg; Storage vMotion&reg;<\/li><li>Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere&reg; High Availability and VMware vSphere&reg; Distributed Resource Scheduler&trade;<\/li><li>Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date<\/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":"<h5>Course Introduction<\/h5><ul>\n<li>Introductions and course logistics<\/li><li>Course objectives<\/li><\/ul><h5>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><\/ul><h5>Installing and Configuring ESXi<\/h5><ul>\n<li>Install an ESXi host<\/li><li>Recognize ESXi user account best practices<\/li><li>Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client<\/li><\/ul><h5>Deploying and Configuring vCenter<\/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 vCenter logs and events<\/li><\/ul><h5>Configuring 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>Configuring 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><\/ul><h5>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>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><\/ul><h5>Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters<\/h5><ul>\n<li>Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA<\/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 various types of failures<\/li><li>Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster<\/li><li>Recognize vSphere HA design considerations<\/li><li>Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings<\/li><li>Configure a vSphere HA cluster<\/li><li>Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance<\/li><\/ul><h5>Managing the vSphere Lifecycle<\/h5><ul>\n<li>Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster<\/li><li>Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner<\/li><li>Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports<\/li><li>Recognize features of VMware vSphere&reg; Lifecycle Manager&trade;<\/li><li>Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images<\/li><li>Describe how to update hosts using baselines<\/li><li>Describe ESXi images<\/li><li>Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and update ESXi hosts<\/li><li>Update 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>","summary":"<p>This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 8, which includes VMware ESXi&trade; 8 and VMware vCenter&reg; 8. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size.<\/p>\n<p>This course is the foundation for most VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.<\/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- Create virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches\n- Create and configure datastores using storage technologies supported by vSphere\n- Use the vSphere\u00ae Client\u2122 to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots\n- Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines\n- Manage virtual machine resource allocation\n- Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere\u00ae vMotion\u00ae and VMware vSphere\u00ae Storage vMotion\u00ae\n- Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere\u00ae High Availability and VMware vSphere\u00ae Distributed Resource Scheduler\u2122\n- Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date","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\n\n- Introductions and course logistics\n- Course objectives\nvSphere 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\nInstalling and Configuring ESXi\n\n\n- Install an ESXi host\n- Recognize ESXi user account best practices\n- Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client\nDeploying and Configuring vCenter\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 vCenter logs and events\nConfiguring 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\nConfiguring 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\nDeploying 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\nManaging 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\nDeploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters\n\n\n- Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA\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 various types of failures\n- Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster\n- Recognize vSphere HA design considerations\n- Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings\n- Configure a vSphere HA cluster\n- Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance\nManaging the vSphere Lifecycle\n\n\n- Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster\n- Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner\n- Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports\n- Recognize features of VMware vSphere\u00ae Lifecycle Manager\u2122\n- Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images\n- Describe how to update hosts using baselines\n- Describe ESXi images\n- Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and update ESXi hosts\n- Update 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","summary_plain":"This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 8, which includes VMware ESXi\u2122 8 and VMware vCenter\u00ae 8. 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