Course Overview
TOPIn this 2-day 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.
Scheduled Classes
TOP| 04/20/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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What You'll Learn
TOPRecognize the importance of key features and 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.
- Identify devices supported for system storage on ESXi 8.0.
- Recognize enhancements to VM hardware compatibility settings.
- Recognize vSphere Lifecycle Manager and Auto Deploy enhancements in vSphere 8.0.
- By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Outline
TOPDescribe the enhancements to lifecycle management of standalone ESXi hosts.
- Manage the configuration profiles of ESXi hosts in a cluster.
- Use Auto Deploy to boot a host with the desired image and configuration specifications.
- Upgrade multiple ESXi hosts in a cluster in parallel.
- Stage an ESXi host image before remediation.
- Manage custom host certificates using Auto Deploy
- Describe the features of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0 offering
- Describe the functionality and benefits of vSphere+
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Describe how device groups support AI and ML in vSphere 8.0.
- Describe how device virtualization extensions support AI and ML in vSphere 8.0.
- Describe the benefits of Distributed Services Engine.
- Configure a VM to use uniform passthrough mode.
- Explain how Distributed Services Engine works.
- Recognize use cases for Distributed Services Engine.
- Install ESXi on a host equipped with a DPU.
- View DPU information in the vSphere Client.
- Add an ESXi host equipped with a DPU to a cluster.
- Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to update an ESXi host that contains a DPU.
- Create a vSphere distributed switch for network offloads.
- Add a host with a DPU to the vSphere distributed switch.
- Describe improvements to the communication between vCenter and ESXi hosts.
- Describe enhancements to the vCenter recovery process.
- Describe the function of the central configuration store in ESXi.
- Explain how ConfigStore affects interaction with ESXi configuration files.
- Recognize the supported system storage partition configuration on ESXi 8.0.
- Identify devices supported for system storage on ESXi 8.0.
- Configure an RDMA host local device on ESXi 8.0.
- Recognize the benefits of using vSAN Express Storage Architecture.
- Describe the benefits of using NVMe.
- Recognize the support for NVMe devices in vSphere 8.0.
- Review the enhancements of the latest virtual hardware versions.
- Describe the features introduced with virtual hardware version 20.
- Identify the snapshot modes of NVDIMM devices.
- Describe the vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation (vMMR) functionality.
- Describe how to manage vTPM secrets when cloning a VM.
- Manage OVF templates for VMs configured with vTPM.
- Deploy an OVF template with vTPM.
- Describe the enhancements to trusted binary enforcement in ESXi.
- Describe ESXi 8.0 enhanced security features.
Prerequisites
TOPVMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- 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
- 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
- VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale
- VMware vSphere: Fast Track
- VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting
- Experience with working at the command line is helpful.
- 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
- This course requires completion of one of the following courses, or equivalent knowledge, plus administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server:
Who Should Attend
TOPSystem 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.
