Description

Look inside this e-book

Download free sample e-book

View the original course outline

ESXLab’s vSphere 8.0 Lab Guide comes from our powerful 5-day class is an intensive introduction to VMware vSphere™ 8.0 including VMware ESXi™ 8.0 and vCenter™ 8.0. This course has been completely updated to reflect the most recent changes introduced in vSphere 8.0.

Assuming no prior virtualization experience, our Lab Guide with the basics and rapidly progresses to advanced topics. It starts with the basic including installing, configuring and networking ESXi hosts. creating VMs, installing and configuring vCenter. It continues on by covering Virtual Machines, Permissions, storage, compute resource management, VM migration, building load balanced and failure recovery clusters, and more. Throughout the course best practices are provided, along with troubleshooting tips, and administrative short cuts.

Our Lab Guide starts with detailed instructions on how to install and configure ESXi 8.0 onto a PC server. Our Lab Guide then moves on through shared storage, networking, building VMs and centralized management. Additional labs explain step-by-step how to configure vSphere for rapid VM deployment, hot-plug virtual hardware, permissions, alarms resource management, VM high availability clusters, VM load balanced clusters, VM cold, hot and storage migration, updating / upgrading ESXi hosts and performance.

For a more detailed look at our Lab Guide’s content, use the Look Inside link (above) to see the first 5 chapters. Or use the Download free sample link to review the first 5 chapters and four labs of this course.

Hands On Labs

Our Lab Guide includes detailed step-by-step instructions on how to complete the following major hands on lab tasks:

1. Connect to your dedicated Remote Lab environment
2. Install ESXi 8.0, and perform post-install configurations
3. Create, update Standard vSwitches. Use pNIC Teams for performance and redundancy
4. Define, connect to and browse NFS based datastores
5. Create a Virtual Machine and install a guest OS into the VM
6. Install VMware Tools into a VM. Add 3rd party tools and utilities into a VM
7. Export a VM in Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) and then re-import it back into ESXi
8. Install and configure the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)
9. Configure vCSA Single Sign On (SSO) identity sources including Active Directory
10. Configure vCenter’s inventory views to organize inventory objects
11. Import ESXi hosts into vCenter management
12. Work with VM Clones and Templates. Convert a VM into a template
13. Rapidly deploy new VMs from template
14. Perform ad-hoc VMs rapid deployments using VM cloning
15. Rapidly deploy VMs using Guest OS Customization Specifications
16. Work with hot-add virtual hardware
17. Hot add, and then grow, a secondary virtual disk
18. Grow a Windows system disk and partition with no downtime
19. Configure and test hotplug memory
20. Hotplug a new virtual CPU package into a running VM
21. Configure the Software iSCSI adapter. Scan for and review SAN based storage volumes
22. VMware VMFS 6 – VMware’s cluster file system
23. Grow VMFS volumes using LUN Spans. Growing volumes and their VMFS datastores
24. Review and update VMFS properties including Space Reclaim
25. Review and select the best VMFS multipath policy for optimal performance and reliability
26. Work with vCenter permissions using stock and custom Roles
27. Configure vCenter alarms to monitor select infrastructure objects
28. Configure Alarm actions to Send SNMP traps to a trap receiver on high VM compute resource use
29. Create and tune Resource Pools. Test Resource Pool compute resource delegations
30. Cold Migrate VMs from one ESXi host and storage volume to another
31. Hot VMotion migrate the running compute state of a VM from one ESXi host to another
32. Hot Storage migrate the running disk state of a VM from one datastore to another
33. Build and test an automated compute resource load balancing DRS cluster
34. Create and configure a VMware High Availability cluster
35. Manually fail a host and watch the cluster place and restart impacted VMs onto healthy hosts
36. Set up VMware Lifecycle Manager to update/update ESXi hosts
37. Perform an ESXi host Compliance Scan, review host non-compliance
38. Use VLM to automatically upgrade an ESXi 7.0 host to ESXi 8.0
39. Use VLM to upgrade a VM’s virtual hardware to ESXi 8.0 compatibility