Overview

In this three-day, hands-on training course, you explore the new features and enhancements in VMware vCenter Server® 7.0 and VMware ESXi™ 7.0. Real-world use-case deployment scenarios, hands-on lab exercises, and lectures teach you the skills that you need to effectively implement and configure VMware vSphere® 7.

This course is recommended for customers who want to deploy vSphere 7 in their existing vSphere environment.

Skills Covered

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 6.7 update releases and vSphere 7
Migrate a vCenter Server system for Windows to VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ 7.0
Upgrade a vCenter Server instance to vSphere 7
Describe vCenter Server, VMware ESXi™, storage, network, virtual machine, and security enhancements in vSphere 7
Update templates in the content library
Use Identity Federation to configure vCenter Server to use external identity sources
Use the VMware vSphere® Client™ to manage certificates
Use VMware vSphere® Trust Authority™ to secure the infrastructure for encrypted VMs
Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to manage vSphere deployments and updates
Describe the cloning and migration operations on encrypted VMs
Describe the purpose of scalable shares and the improvements to vSphere DRS
Describe how to change the IP address or FQDN of vCenter Server
Identify new hardware device support in ESXi 7.0
Recognize the enhancements available with VM compatibility version 17
Recognize the enhancements available with VM compatibility version 18
Recognize the importance of containers and Kubernetes in a modern data center

Who Should Attend

System architects, system administrators, IT managers, VMware partners, and individuals responsible for implementing and managing vSphere architectures

Course Curriculum

Prerequisites

This course requires completion of one the following courses or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server:

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® Update ManagerTM to apply patches and perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and VMs