VMware vSphere: Advanced Administration [V8] («VSPAA8»)

• Configuring VMware vCenter® and VMware ESXi™
• Configuring and managing a vSphere cluster solution for vSphere HA, vSphere DRS, and vSAN
• Configuring vSphere storage and networking
• Performing lifecycle operations on vSphere components
• Troubleshooting vSphere infrastructure and connectivity issues
• Backing up vCenter configurations
• Implementing solutions for securing the vSphere infrastructure

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 Creating and Configuring Management Clusters

• Create a vSphere cluster for management workloads
• Activate vSphere cluster features that help to improve resource allocation and availability of virtual machines
• Use standard virtual switches to create networking in a cluster
• Select the appropriate vSphere storage types to meet requirements
• Configure iSCSI storage
• Configure VMFS and NFS datastores
• Recognize when to configure ESXi NTP and PTP support
• Recognize ESXi user account best practices
• Configure ESXi host settings
• Use vSphere configuration profiles to maintain consistent ESXi host configurations

3 Creating and Configuring Production Clusters

• Use Cluster Quickstart to create a vSAN-activated cluster
• Configure advanced vSphere HA settings
• Configure the vCenter identity provider
• Assign specific permissions and roles to Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) users
• Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility on a cluster and a VM
• Perform a Cross vCenter Server migration
• Use content libraries to share virtual machine templates between sites
• Manage VM and ESXi host resources using resource pools, scalable shares, and vSphere DRS rules

4 Troubleshooting vSphere and Backing Up Configurations

• Troubleshoot ESXi connectivity issues
• Troubleshoot ESXi storage issues
• Troubleshoot vSphere cluster issues
• Troubleshoot PowerCLI issues
• Generate vCenter and ESXi log bundles
• Back up vCenter
• Create a vCenter profile to standardize configurations in the environment

5 Lifecycle Management

• Troubleshoot upgrade-blocking issues
• Increase logging levels on vCenter
• Configure a VMware Tools™ shared repository
• Upgrade vCenter
• Upgrade ESXi
• Upgrade VMware Tools
• Upgrade virtual machine hardware compatibility

6 vSphere Security

• Configure a key management server
• Encrypt virtual machines using vSphere VM encryption
• Secure VMs in transit with encrypted vSphere vMotion
• Identify and implement different ESXi CPU scheduler options
• Apply security hardening guidelines to ESXi hosts
• Replace vCenter certificates with trusted CA-signed certificates
• Reconfigure the primary network identifier for a vCenter instance

This course is aimed at system administrators and system engineers.

Working knowledge of VMware vSAN™ and system administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.

Completion of the following courses is required:

VMware Certification: Click here for an overview of the VMware certifications.

• VCAP – Data Center Virtualization Deploy 2024

In this course you will receive electronic course materials. The documents will be sent to you by VMware prior to the course to the address you provided when you registered. You have the option of bringing your own tablet or laptop so that you can read the content and exercises in parallel to your lessons. In addition, you have your documents already saved in the right place.