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Duration

2 Days

12 CPD hours

This course is intended for

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.

Overview

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following 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

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.

Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics

Course objectives

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

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

vSphere and vCenter Management

Review the improvements to the communication between vCenter and ESXi hosts

Review the enhancements to the vCenter recovery process

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

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

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

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

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

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

Auto Deploy

Manage custom host certificates using Auto Deploy

vSphere with Tanzu

Describe the features of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0 offering

Announcing vSphere+

Describe the functionality and benefits of vSphere+

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