(VSICM8)<\/span><\/a><\/span> course.<\/p>","audience":"System architects, system administrators, IT managers, VMware partners, and individuals responsible for implementing and managing vSphere architectures who want to deploy vSphere 8.0 into their existing vSphere environment.<\/p>","contents":"
1 Course Introduction<\/h5>\n- Introductions and course logistics<\/li>
- Course objectives<\/li><\/ul>
2 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning<\/h5>\n- Describe how device groups support AI and ML in vSphere 8<\/li>
- Describe how device virtualization extensions support AI and ML in vSphere 8<\/li><\/ul>
3 vSphere Distributed Services Engine<\/h5>\n- Describe the benefits of Distributed Services Engine<\/li>
- Explain how Distributed Services Engine works<\/li>
- Recognize use cases for Distributed Services Engine<\/li>
- Install ESXi on a host equipped with a DPU<\/li>
- View DPU information in vSphere Client<\/li>
- Add an ESXi host equipped with a DPU to a cluster<\/li>
- Update an ESXi host equipped with a DPU using vSphere Lifecycle Manager<\/li>
- Create a vSphere Distributed Switch for network offloads<\/li>
- Add a host with a DPU to the vSphere Distributed Switch<\/li>
- Configure a VM to use Uniform Passthrough Mode<\/li><\/ul>
4 vSphere and vCenter Management<\/h5>\n- Review the improvements to the communication between vCenter and ESXi hosts<\/li>
- Review the enhancements to the vCenter recovery process<\/li><\/ul>
5 ESXi Enhancements<\/h5>\n- Describe the function of the central configuration store in ESXi<\/li>
- Explain how ConfigStore affects your interaction with ESXi configuration files<\/li>
- Recognize the supported system storage partition configuration on ESXi 8.0<\/li>
- Identify devices supported for system storage on ESXi 8.0<\/li>
- Configure an RDMA host local device on ESXi<\/li><\/ul>
6 vSphere Storage<\/h5>\n- Describe the vSAN Express Storage Architecture<\/li>
- Recognize the benefits of using vSAN Express Storage Architecture<\/li>
- Describe the benefits of using NVMe<\/li>
- Recognize the support for NVMe devices in vSphere<\/li><\/ul>
7 Guest OS and Workloads<\/h5>\n- Review the enhancements of the latest virtual hardware versions<\/li>
- Describe the features introduced with virtual hardware version 20<\/li>
- Create a snapshot of a VM with an NVDIMM device<\/li><\/ul>
8 Resource Management<\/h5>\n- View energy and carbon emission metrics in vRealize Operations Manager<\/li>
- Describe the VMware vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation (vMMR) functionality<\/li>
- Describe how vMMR enhances the performance of vSphere DRS<\/li><\/ul>
9 Security and Compliance<\/h5>\n- Describe how to handle vTPM secrets when cloning a VM<\/li>
- Manage OVF templates for VMs that are configured with vTPM<\/li>
- Deploy an OVF template with vTPM<\/li>
- Describe the enhancements to trusted binary enforcement in ESXi<\/li>
- Describe ESXi 8 enhanced security features<\/li><\/ul>
10 vSphere Lifecycle Manager<\/h5>\n- Describe the enhancements to life cycle management of standalone ESXi hosts<\/li>
- Manage the configuration profiles of ESXi hosts in a cluster with vSphere Lifecycle Manager<\/li>
- Use Auto Deploy to boot a host with the desired image and configuration specifications<\/li>
- Upgrade multiple ESXi hosts in a cluster in parallel<\/li>
- Stage an ESXi host image prior to remediation<\/li><\/ul>
11 Auto Deploy<\/h5>\n- Manage custom host certificates using Auto Deploy<\/li><\/ul>
12 vSphere with Tanzu<\/h5>\n- Describe the features of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0 offering<\/li><\/ul>
13 Announcing vSphere+<\/h5>\n- Describe the functionality and benefits of vSphere+<\/li><\/ul>","summary":"
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.<\/p>\n
Product Alignment<\/p>\n
\n- VMware ESXi 8.0<\/li>
- VMware vCenter Server 8.0<\/li><\/ul>","objective_plain":"By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:\n\n\n- Recognize the importance of key features and enhancements in vSphere 8.0\n- Describe vCenter Server, VMware ESXi, storage, virtual machine, and security enhancements in vSphere 8.0\n- Describe the purpose of vSphere Distributed Services Engine\n- Update an ESXi host equipped with a Data Processing Unit (DPU) using vSphere Lifecycle Manager\n- Identify devices supported for system storage on ESXi 8.0\n- Recognize enhancements to VM hardware compatibility settings\n- VMware vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation and the improvements to vSphere DRS\n- Recognize the new Virtual Non-Uniform Memory Access (vNUMA) topology settings of a VM in vSphere Client\n- Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager and Auto Deploy to manage the configuration specifications for the hosts in a cluster\n- Recognize the vSphere Lifecycle Manager and Auto Deploy enhancements in vSphere 8.0\n- Recognize the cloud benefits that VMware vSphere+ brings to on-premises workloads\n- Recognize technology that is discontinued or deprecated in vSphere 8.0","essentials_plain":"This course requires completion of one of the following courses, or equivalent knowledge, plus administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server:\n\n\n- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage\n- VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale\n- VMware vSphere: Fast Track\n- VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting\n- Experience with working at the command line is helpful.\nThe course material presumes that you can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:\n\n\n- Install and configure ESXi\n- Install vCenter Server\n- Create vCenter Server objects, such as data centers and folders\n- Create and manage vCenter Server roles and permissions\n- Create and modify a standard switch\n- Create and modify a distributed switch\n- Connect an ESXi host to NAS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel storage\n- Create a VMware vSphere VMFS datastore\n- Use a content library template to create a virtual machine\n- Modify a virtual machine\u2019s hardware\n- Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion\n- Configure and manage a VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster\n- Configure and manage a VMware vSphere High Availability cluster\n- Use VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager to perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and VMs\nIf you cannot complete these tasks, VMware recommends that you instead take the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] (VSICM8) course.","audience_plain":"System architects, system administrators, IT managers, VMware partners, and individuals responsible for implementing and managing vSphere architectures who want to deploy vSphere 8.0 into their existing vSphere environment.","contents_plain":"1 Course Introduction\n\n\n- Introductions and course logistics\n- Course objectives\n2 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning\n\n\n- Describe how device groups support AI and ML in vSphere 8\n- Describe how device virtualization extensions support AI and ML in vSphere 8\n3 vSphere Distributed Services Engine\n\n\n- Describe the benefits of Distributed Services Engine\n- Explain how Distributed Services Engine works\n- Recognize use cases for Distributed Services Engine\n- Install ESXi on a host equipped with a DPU\n- View DPU information in vSphere Client\n- Add an ESXi host equipped with a DPU to a cluster\n- Update an ESXi host equipped with a DPU using vSphere Lifecycle Manager\n- Create a vSphere Distributed Switch for network offloads\n- Add a host with a DPU to the vSphere Distributed Switch\n- Configure a VM to use Uniform Passthrough Mode\n4 vSphere and vCenter Management\n\n\n- Review the improvements to the communication between vCenter and ESXi hosts\n- Review the enhancements to the vCenter recovery process\n5 ESXi Enhancements\n\n\n- Describe the function of the central configuration store in ESXi\n- Explain how ConfigStore affects your interaction with ESXi configuration files\n- Recognize the supported system storage partition configuration on ESXi 8.0\n- Identify devices supported for system storage on ESXi 8.0\n- Configure an RDMA host local device on ESXi\n6 vSphere Storage\n\n\n- Describe the vSAN Express Storage Architecture\n- Recognize the benefits of using vSAN Express Storage Architecture\n- Describe the benefits of using NVMe\n- Recognize the support for NVMe devices in vSphere\n7 Guest OS and Workloads\n\n\n- Review the enhancements of the latest virtual hardware versions\n- Describe the features introduced with virtual hardware version 20\n- Create a snapshot of a VM with an NVDIMM device\n8 Resource Management\n\n\n- View energy and carbon emission metrics in vRealize Operations Manager\n- Describe the VMware vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation (vMMR) functionality\n- Describe how vMMR enhances the performance of vSphere DRS\n9 Security and Compliance\n\n\n- Describe how to handle vTPM secrets when cloning a VM\n- Manage OVF templates for VMs that are configured with vTPM\n- Deploy an OVF template with vTPM\n- Describe the enhancements to trusted binary enforcement in ESXi\n- Describe ESXi 8 enhanced security features\n10 vSphere Lifecycle Manager\n\n\n- Describe the enhancements to life cycle management of standalone ESXi hosts\n- Manage the configuration profiles of ESXi hosts in a cluster with vSphere Lifecycle Manager\n- Use Auto Deploy to boot a host with the desired image and configuration specifications\n- Upgrade multiple ESXi hosts in a cluster in parallel\n- Stage an ESXi host image prior to remediation\n11 Auto Deploy\n\n\n- Manage custom host certificates using Auto Deploy\n12 vSphere with Tanzu\n\n\n- Describe the features of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0 offering\n13 Announcing vSphere+\n\n\n- Describe the functionality and benefits of vSphere+","summary_plain":"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.\n\nProduct Alignment\n\n\n- VMware ESXi 8.0\n- VMware vCenter Server 8.0","skill_level":"Intermediate","version":"8","duration":{"unit":"d","value":2,"formatted":"2 days"},"pricelist":{"List Price":{"PL":{"country":"PL","currency":"PLN","taxrate":23,"price":3700},"DE":{"country":"DE","currency":"EUR","taxrate":19,"price":1490},"AT":{"country":"AT","currency":"EUR","taxrate":20,"price":1490},"SE":{"country":"SE","currency":"EUR","taxrate":25,"price":1490},"IL":{"country":"IL","currency":"ILS","taxrate":17,"price":5670},"BE":{"country":"BE","currency":"EUR","taxrate":21,"price":1490},"IT":{"country":"IT","currency":"EUR","taxrate":20,"price":1300},"GB":{"country":"GB","currency":"GBP","taxrate":20,"price":1515},"RU":{"country":"RU","currency":"RUB","taxrate":18,"price":66500},"NL":{"country":"NL","currency":"EUR","taxrate":21,"price":1395},"SI":{"country":"SI","currency":"EUR","taxrate":20,"price":1100},"CH":{"country":"CH","currency":"CHF","taxrate":8.1,"price":1490}}},"lastchanged":"2026-04-02T14:17:04+02:00","parenturl":"https:\/\/portal.flane.ch\/swisscom\/en\/json-courses","nexturl_course_schedule":"https:\/\/portal.flane.ch\/swisscom\/en\/json-course-schedule\/30926","source_lang":"en","source":"https:\/\/portal.flane.ch\/swisscom\/en\/json-course\/vmware-vswn8"}}