VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] («VS8ICM»)

1. Course Introduction
   • Introductions and course logistics
   • Course objectives
2. vSphere and Virtualization Overview
   • Explain basic virtualization concepts
   • Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
   • Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
   • Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs
3. Installing and Configuring ESXi
   • Install an ESXi host
   • Recognize ESXi user account best practices
   • Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client
4. Deploying and Configuring vCenter
   • Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter
   • Deploy vCenter Server Appliance
   • Configure vCenter settings
   • Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys
   • Create and organize vCenter inventory objects
   • Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions
   • View vCenter logs and events
5. Configuring vSphere Networking
   • Configure and view standard switch configurations
   • Configure and view distributed switch configurations
   • Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches
   • Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches
6. Configuring vSphere Storage
   • Recognize vSphere storage technologies
   • Identify types of vSphere datastores
   • Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing
   • Describe iSCSI components and addressing
   • Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi
   • Create and manage VMFS datastores
   • Configure and manage NFS datastores
7. Deploying Virtual Machines
   • Create and provision VMs
   • Explain the importance of VMware Tools
   • Identify the files that make up a VM
   • Recognize the components of a VM
   • Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options
   • Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources
   • Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them
   • Clone VMs
   • Create customization specifications for guest operating systems
   • Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries
   • Deploy VMs from content libraries
   • Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries
8. Managing Virtual Machines
   • Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances
   • Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion
   • Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations
   • Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion
   • Take a snapshot of a VM
   • Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots
   • Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment
   • Describe how VMs compete for resources
   • Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits
9. Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters
   • Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
   • View information about a vSphere cluster
   • Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster
   • Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings
   • Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster
   • Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures
   • Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster
   • Recognize vSphere HA design considerations
   • Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings
   • Configure a vSphere HA cluster
   • Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance
10. Managing the vSphere Lifecycle
    • Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
    • Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner
    • Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports
    • Recognize features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager
    • Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images
    • Describe how to update hosts using baselines
    • Describe ESXi images
    • Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and update ESXi hosts
    • Update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
    • Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations
    • Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware

Cette formation s’adresse aux administrateurs système et aux ingénieurs système, experts ou débutants, ainsi qu'aux personnes qui désirent passer l'examen de certification.

Les participantes et participants doivent avoir de l’expérience en gestion des systèmes d’exploitation comme Microsoft Windows ou Linux.

La participation à ce cours répond aux exigences de formation pour obtenir la certification :

• The VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2024 (VCP-DCV 2023)

Pour laquelle vous devrez passer l’examen VMware vSphere 8.x Professional (2V0-21.23).
Le coût de l'examen de $250 USD (sous réserve de modification par l'éditeur) n'est pas compris dans le prix de la formation. Nous vous conseillons de passer l’examen une fois que vous aurez au moins 6 mois d’expérience dans le domaine, avec les technologies VMware.
Vous pouvez également vous y préparer grâce aux formations suivantes :

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage V8
• VMware vSphere: Fast Track V8
• VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure V8
• VMware vSphere: TroubleShooting V8

Nous vous conseillons de passer l’examen une fois que vous aurez au moins 6 mois d’expérience dans le domaine avec les technologies VMware.

Vous trouverez ici un aperçu de la certification VMware.
 

Vous recevrez le matériel de cours sous forme électronique. Les documents vous seront envoyés deux ou trois jours à l'avance par VMware à l’adresse électronique mentionnée lors de votre inscription. Pour accéder aux documents et exercices pendant le cours, pensez à les télécharger et à apporter votre propre tablette ou ordinateur portable.