Overview

Elevate Your Career with vSphere 8 Training and Certification

In this 2-day official VMware Learning 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.

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 8.0
Describe the purpose of VMware vSphere® Distributed Services Engine™
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

Who Should Attend

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.

Course Curriculum

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.

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