Introduction
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.
Course Objectives
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 the purpose of VMware vSphere® Distributed Services Enginse™
Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to update an ESXi host that has a data processing unit (DPU)
Identify devices supported for system storage on ESXi 8.0
Recognize enhancements to VM hardware compatibility settings
Recognize changes related to vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation that improve VMware vSphere®
Distributed Resource Scheduler™
Describe the new virtual non-uniform memory access (vNUMA) topology settings in the VMware vSphere® Client™
Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager and VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to manage configuration specifications for hosts in a cluster
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 that VMware vSphere+ brings to on-premises workloads
Identify discontinued or deprecated features and technology in vSphere 8.0
Target 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.
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of one the following courses or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server:
Course Outline :: VMware vSphere: What's New [V8]::
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.
The course material presumes that you can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:
Install and configure ESXi
Install vCenter Server
Create vCenter Server objects, such as data centers and folders
Create and manage vCenter Server roles and permissions
Create and modify a standard switch
Create and modify a distributed switch
Connect an ESXi host to NAS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel storage
Create a VMware vSphere VMFS datastore
Use a content library template to create a virtual machine
Modify a virtual machine’s hardware
Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion
Configure and manage a VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster
Configure and manage a VMware vSphere High Availability cluster
Use VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager to perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and VMs
If you cannot complete these tasks, VMware recommends that you instead take the VMware vSphere: Install,
Configure, Manage [V8] course.
Course Outline
1 Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
2 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Describe how device groups support AI and ML in vSphere 8.0
Course Outline :: VMware vSphere: What's New [V8]::
Describe how device virtualization extensions support AI and ML in vSphere 8.0
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
4 vSphere and vCenter Management
Describe improvements to the communication between vCenter and ESXi hosts
Describe enhancements to the vCenter recovery process
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
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
7 Guest OS and Workloads
Review the enhancements of the latest virtual hardware versions
Describe the features introduced with virtual hardware version 20
Course Outline :: VMware vSphere: What's New [V8]::
Identify the snapshot modes of NVDIMM devices
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
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
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
11 Auto Deploy
Manage custom host certificates using Auto Deploy
12 vSphere with Tanzu
Describe the features of VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ 2.0
13 Announcing vSphere+
Describe the functionality and benefits of vSphere+
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.