Course Overview
TOPIn this three-day, hands-on training course, you explore the new features and enhancements in VMware vCenter Server 7 and VMware ESXi 7. 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.
Scheduled Classes
TOP| 06/10/24 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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What You'll Learn
TOPList and describe the importance of key features and enhancements in vSphere 6.7 update releases and Sphere 7
- Recognize improvements to VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
- Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to manage vSphere deployments, updates, and configurations
- Discuss the purpose and capabilities of VMware vSphere with Kubernetes and how it fits into the VMware Tanzu portfolio
- Determine the proper upgrade path for a vCenter Server instance and upgrade VMware vCenter Server Appliance to version 7
- Migrate a Windows vCenter Server system to vCenter Server Appliance 7
- Manage and update VM templates located in content libraries
- Use Identity Federation to configure vCenter Server to use Microsoft ADFS
- Use the VMware vSphere Client to manage certificates
- Describe vCenter Server, VMware ESXi, storage, network, virtual machine, and security enhancements in vSphere 7
- Use VMware vSphere Trust Authority to secure the infrastructure for encrypted VMs
- Demonstrate the Quickstart feature of the ESXi cluster
- By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Outline
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Differentiate between containers and virtual machines
- Identify the parts of a container system
- Recognize the basic architecture of Kubernetes
- Describe a basic Kubernetes workflow
- Describe the purpose of vSphere with Kubernetes and how it fits into the VMware Tanzu portfolio
- Explain the vSphere with Kubernetes supervisor cluster
- Describe the Tanzu Kubernetes grid service
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Describe the new vCenter Server Appliance deployment model
- Upgrade a vCenter Server Appliance instance to vCenter Server Appliance 7
- Migrate a Windows vCenter Server instance to vCenter Server Appliance 7
- Describe the enhancements to vCenter Server Appliance
- Identify the scaling and performance improvements for vCenter Server Appliance
- Explain the benefits of using VMware Skyline to proactively monitor your environment
- Describe the support provided for dynamic DNS
- Recognize how to change the IP address or FQDN of vCenter Server
- Describe prefix-based MAC address allocation
- Perform a VM template in-place update in Content Library
- Describe identity federation and recognize its use cases
- Configure identity federation
- Manage certificates using the vSphere Client
- Identify VMware NSX-T logical switches and their properties in the vSphere Client
- Upgrade an ESXi host to version 7
- List the enhancements introduced with ESXi 7
- Describe new device support for ESXi hosts
- Describe support for Precision Time Protocol
- Discuss the new functionality, virtual devices, and VM maximums supported by VM compatibility version 17
- Describe the enhancements to guest customization
- Perform a vSphere vMotion migration of VMs with remote devices
- Describe the enhancements to NVMe support
- Describe the enhancements to VMware Pluggable Storage Architecture
- Describe the purpose of the High-Performance Plug-in
- Describe the support for iSER
- Recognize the changes made to the ESXi system storage layout
- Describe the support for CAB deployment of WSFC in vSphere 6.7 and later
- List the enhancements made to vSAN
- Describe the enhancements to the VM encryption feature
- Describe the enhancements to cloning, migration, and encryption operations
- Describe the benefits and use cases of vSphere Trust Authority
- Configure vSphere Trust Authority
- Demonstrate the Quickstart feature of the ESXi cluster
- Recognize improvements to vSphere DRS
- Describe use cases for scalable shares
- Use vCenter Server Update Planner to run vCenter Server upgrade prechecks
- Compare vSphere Lifecycle Manager to vSphere Update Manager
- Manage and update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Prerequisites
TOPInstall and configure ESXi
- Modify a virtual machines hardware
- Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion
- Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster
- Configure and manage a VMware vSphere High Availability cluster
- Use VMware vSphere Update Manager to apply patches and perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and VMs
- If you cannot complete these tasks, VMware recommends that you instead take the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] course.
- 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 VMFS datastore
- Use a content library template to create a virtual machine
- This course requires completion of one the following courses or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server: VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage, VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale, VMware vSphere: Fast Track, or VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting.The course material presumes that you can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:
Who Should Attend
TOPSystem architects, system administrators, IT managers, VMware partners, and individuals responsible for implementing and managing vSphere architectures.
