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Course : VMware vSphere: What's New in Version 8 (EDU-VSWN8)

Official VMware Course

Practical course - 2d - 14h00 - Ref. MV8
Price : 1950 € E.T.

VMware vSphere: What's New in Version 8 (EDU-VSWN8)

Official VMware Course


New course

In this course, you will learn about the new features and enhancements in VMware vCenter Server 8.0 and VMware ESXi 8.0. Through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, and lab work, you will learn how to effectively deploy and configure a VMware vSphere 8.0 environment.


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IN-HOUSE
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Practical course in person or remote class
Disponible en anglais, à la demande

Ref. MV8
  2d - 14h00
1950 € E.T.




In this course, you will learn about the new features and enhancements in VMware vCenter Server 8.0 and VMware ESXi 8.0. Through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, and lab work, you will learn how to effectively deploy and configure a VMware vSphere 8.0 environment.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Understanding the Key New Features and Improvements in VMware vSphere 8.0
Learn about the latest developments in vCenter Server, ESXi, storage, and virtual machines
Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to manage and update ESXi hosts
Identify new features related to performance, security, and resource management
Learn about the new features, deprecated technologies, and new services in VMware vSphere 8.0

Intended audience
System administrators, infrastructure architects, and IT professionals who want to learn about the new features in VMware vSphere 8.

Prerequisites
Must have completed a VMware vSphere training course (Install, Configure, Manage—ref. AMW) or equivalent, or have proven experience in administering VMware ESXi and vCenter Server. Knowledge of the command line is recommended. Good written English skills.

Course schedule

1
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

  • Understanding the Role of AI and Machine Learning in vSphere 8.
  • Explore device groups and virtualization extensions designed for AI.

2
Learn About vSphere Distributed Services Engine

  • Describe the benefits of the distributed services engine.
  • Explain how the distributed services engine works.
  • Identify use cases for the distributed services engine.
  • Install ESXi on a host equipped with a DPU.
  • View DPU information in vSphere Client.
  • Add an ESXi host equipped with a DPU to a cluster.
  • Update an ESXi host equipped with a DPU using vSphere Lifecycle Manager.
  • Create a vSphere distributed switch for network offloads.
  • Add a host with a DPU to the vSphere Distributed Switch.
  • Configure a virtual machine to use Uniform Passthrough mode.

3
vSphere and vCenter Management

  • Improvements to communication between vCenter and ESXi hosts.
  • Improvements to the vCenter recovery process.

4
Improvements to ESXi

  • Describe the function of the central configuration store in ESXi.
  • Explain how ConfigStore affects your interaction with ESXi configuration files.
  • Identify the supported system storage partition configuration on ESXi 8.0.
  • Identify supported devices for system storage on ESXi 8.0
  • Configure a Local RDMA Host Device on ESXi

5
vSphere Storage

  • Describe the vSAN Express storage architecture.
  • Understand the benefits of the vSAN Express storage architecture.
  • Describe the benefits of using NVMe.
  • Identifying NVMe Device Support in vSphere

6
SE Guests and Workloads

  • Review the improvements made in the latest versions of the virtual hardware.
  • Describe the features introduced with Virtual Hardware Version 20.
  • Create a snapshot of a virtual machine with an NVDIMM device.

7
Resource Management

  • View energy and carbon emissions metrics in vRealize Operations Manager.
  • Describe the VMware vSphere Memory Monitoring and Correction (vMMR) feature.
  • Describe how vMMR improves the performance of vSphere DRS.

8
Security and Compliance

  • 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 improvements made to the trusted binary application in ESXi.
  • Describe the enhanced security features in ESXi 8.

9
vSphere Lifecycle Manager

  • Describe the improvements made to the lifecycle management of standalone ESXi hosts.
  • Manage ESXi host configuration profiles in a cluster using vSphere Lifecycle Manager.
  • Use Auto Deploy to start a host with the desired image and configuration specifications.
  • Upgrading multiple ESXi hosts in a cluster simultaneously.
  • Screenshot of an ESXi host image before the fix.

10
Automatic deployment

  • Manage custom host certificates using automatic deployment.

11
vSphere with Tanzu

  • Describe the features of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0.

12
vSphere+ Announcement

  • Describe the features and benefits of vSphere+



This programme is an original creation, developed by the teaching teams at ORSYS Formation. Any reproduction, representation, adaptation or use, in whole or in part, without the prior written authorisation of ORSYS, is strictly prohibited. ORSYS reserves the right to take any action necessary to protect its intellectual property rights.

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This programme is an original creation, developed by the teaching teams at ORSYS Formation. Any reproduction, representation, adaptation or use, in whole or in part, without the prior written authorisation of ORSYS, is strictly prohibited. ORSYS reserves the right to take any action necessary to protect its intellectual property rights.