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This five-day course teaches you advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you configure and optimize the VMware vSphere 8 features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure. You also discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. Attend this course to deepen your understanding of vSphere and learn how its advanced features and controls can benefit your organization.

This course is also available in an On Demand format. For more information, select this link: VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure [V8] - On Demand.

Product Alignment

VMware ESXi 8.0
VMware vCenter 8.0

This course requires the following:

Attend VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]
Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter
Experience with working at the command line is highly recommended.

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

Configure and manage a VMware Tools Repository
Configure vSphere Replication and recover replicated VMs
Manage VM resource usage with resource pools
Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
Configure VMware vCenter Server® High Availability
Use host profiles to manage VMware ESXi™ 8 host compliance
Use the vSphere Client and the command line to manage certificates
Monitor the vCenter, ESXi, and VMs performance in the vSphere client
Secure VMware vCenter® 8, ESXi, and VMs in your vSphere environment
Use Identity Federation to configure the vCenter to use external identity sources
Use VMware vSphere® Trust Authority™ secure the infrastructure for encrypted VMs

1 Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2 Virtual Machine Operations

Recognize the role of a VMware Tools™ Repository
Configure a VMware Tools Repository
Recognize the backup and restore solution for VMs
Identify the components in the VMware vSphere® Replication™ architecture
Deploy and configure vSphere Replication and VMware Site Recovery™ instances
Recover replicated VMs

3 vSphere Cluster Operations

Create and manage resource pools in a cluster
Describe how scalable shares work
Describe the function of the vCLS
Recognize operations that might disrupt the healthy functioning of vCLS VMs

4 Network Operations

Configure and manage vSphere distributed switches
Describe how VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control enhances performance
Explain distributed switch features such as port mirroring and NetFlow
Define vSphere Distributed Services Engine
Describe the use cases and benefits of VMware vSphere® Distributed Services Engine™

5 Storage Operations

Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies
Describe the architecture and requirements of vSAN configuration
Describe storage policy-based management
Recognize components in the VMware vSphere® Virtual Volumes™ architecture
Configure Storage I/O Control

6 vCenter and ESXi Operations

Create a vCenter backup schedule
Recognize the importance of vCenter High Availability
Explain how vCenter Server High Availability works
Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
Recognize the benefits of using configuration profiles
Use the vSphere client and the command line to manage certificates

7 vSphere Monitoring

Monitor the key factors that can affect a virtual machine's performance
Describe the factors that influence vCenter performance
Use vCenter tools to monitor resource use
Create custom alarms in vCenter
Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline™
Recognize uses for VMware Skyline Advisor™ Pro

8 vSphere Security and Access Control

Recognize strategies for securing vSphere components, such as vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines
Describe vSphere support for security standards and protocols
Describe identity federation and recognize its use cases
Configure identity federation to allow vCenter to use an external identity provider

9 vSphere Trusted Environments and VM Encryption

Configure ESXi Host Access and Authentication
Describe virtual machine security features
Describe the components of a VM encryption architecture
Create, manage, and migrate encrypted VMs
List VM encryption events and alarms
Describe the benefits and use cases of vSphere Trust Authority

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