VMware vSphere: What's New [V8]

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$1,700.00 USD

Duration
2 Days

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Virtual Instructor Led
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Course Overview

In 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.

Course Objectives

Recognize the importance of key features and enhancements in vSphere 8.0
Describe the purpose of VMware vSphere® Distributed Services Engine™
Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to update an ESXi host that has a data processing unit (DPU)
Identify devices supported for system storage on ESXi 8.0
Recognize enhancements to VM hardware compatibility settings
Recognize changes related to vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation that improve VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™
Describe the new virtual non-uniform memory access (vNUMA) topology settings in the VMware vSphere® Client™
Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager and VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to manage configuration specifications for hosts in a cluster
Recognize vSphere Lifecycle Manager and Auto Deploy 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

Who Should Attend?

System 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.

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Course Prerequisites

This course requires completion of one of the following courses, or equivalent knowledge, plus administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server:

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale
VMware vSphere: Fast Track
VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting
Experience with working at the command line is helpful.

Agenda

1 Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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

3 vSphere Distributed Services Engine

Describe the benefits of Distributed Services Engine
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
Configure a VM to use uniform passthrough mode

4 vSphere and vCenter Management

Describe improvements to the communication between vCenter and ESXi hosts
Describe enhancements to the vCenter recovery process

5 ESXi Enhancements

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

6 vSphere Storage

Describe the VMware vSAN™ Express Storage Architecture
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

7 Guest OS and Workloads

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

8 Resource Management

View energy and carbon emission metrics in VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™
Describe the vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation (vMMR) functionality
Describe how vMMR enhances the performance of DRS

9 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 enhancements to trusted binary enforcement in ESXi
Describe ESXi 8.0 enhanced security features

10 vSphere Lifecycle Manager

Describe the enhancements to life cycle 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