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Course Name
VSWN8: VMware vSphere: What’s New [V8]
Duration
2 Days
Overview
Audience Profile
Prerequisities
At Course Completion
Course Outline
Overview
In this 2-day course, you will explore the new features and enhancements in VMware vCenter® 8.0, VMware ESXi™ 8.0, and VMware vSphere® 8.0. Through use-case scenarios, demonstrations, labs, and simulations, you develop skills to implement and configure vSphere 8.0.
Overview
Overview
In this 2-day course, you will explore the new features and enhancements in VMware vCenter® 8.0, VMware ESXi™ 8.0, and VMware vSphere® 8.0. Through use-case scenarios, demonstrations, labs, and simulations, you develop skills to implement and configure vSphere 8.0.
Audience Profile
Audience Profile
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.
Prerequisities
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of one of the following courses, or equivalent knowledge, plus administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale
- VMware vSphere: Fast Track
- VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting
- Experience with working at the command line is helpful.
At Course Completion
At Course Completion
By the end of the course, you should be able to:
- Recognize the importance of key features and enhancements in vSphere 8.0
- Describe the purpose of VMware vSphere® Distributed Services Engine™
- Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to update an ESXi host with a data processing unit (DPU)
- Identify supported devices for system storage on ESXi 8.0
- Recognize enhancements to VM hardware compatibility settings
- Recognize vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation improvements for VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™
- Describe new virtual non-uniform memory access (vNUMA) topology settings in VMware vSphere® Client™
- Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager and VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to manage configuration specifications for cluster hosts
- Recognize vSphere Lifecycle Manager and Auto Deploy enhancements in vSphere 8.0
- Describe new cluster management features in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0
- Recognize the cloud benefits of VMware vSphere+ for on-premises workloads
- Identify discontinued or deprecated features and technologies in vSphere 8.0
Course Outline
Course Outline
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 8.0
- Describe how device virtualization extensions support AI and ML in vSphere 8.0
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 the vSphere Client
- Add an ESXi host equipped with a DPU to a cluster
- Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to update an ESXi host that contains a DPU
- 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
- Describe improvements to the communication between vCenter and ESXi hosts
- Describe enhancements to the vCenter recovery process
Module 5: ESXi Enhancements
- Describe the function of the central configuration store in ESXi
- Explain how ConfigStore affects 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 8.0
Module 6: vSphere Storage
- Describe the VMware 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 8.0
Module 7: Guest OS and Workloads
- Review the enhancements of the latest virtual hardware versions
- Describe the features introduced with virtual hardware version 20
- Identify the snapshot modes of NVDIMM devices
Module 8: Resource Management
- View energy and carbon emission metrics in VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™
- Describe the vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation (vMMR) functionality
- Describe how vMMR enhances the performance of DRS
Module 9: Security and Compliance
- Describe how to manage vTPM secrets when cloning a VM
- Manage OVF templates for VMs configured with vTPM
- Deploy an OVF template with vTPM
- Describe the enhancements to trusted binary enforcement in ESXi
- Describe ESXi 8.0 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
- 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 before remediation
Module 11: Auto Deploy
- Manage custom host certificates using Auto Deploy
Module 12: vSphere with Tanzu
- Describe the features of VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ 2.0
Module 13: Announcing vSphere+
- Describe the functionality and benefits of vSphere+
