VMware vSphere: Advanced Administration [V8] (VSAA8)

This five-day course provides hands-on training to equip students with a range of skills, from performing routine VMware vSphere 8 administrative tasks to complex vSphere operations and configurati...

Course Introduction


- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Creating and Configuring Management Clusters


- Create a vSphere cluster for management workloads
- Activate vSphere cluster features that help to improve resource allocation and availability of virtual machines
- Use standard virtual switches to create networking in a cluster
- Select the appropriate vSphere storage types to meet requirements
- Configure iSCSI storage
- Configure VMFS and NFS datastores
- Recognize when to configure ESXi NTP and PTP support
- Recognize ESXi user account best practices
- Configure ESXi host settings
- Use vSphere configuration profiles to maintain consistent ESXi host configurations
Creating and Configuring Production Clusters


- Use Cluster Quickstart to create a vSAN-activated cluster
- Configure advanced vSphere HA settings
- Configure the vCenter identity provider
- Assign specific permissions and roles to Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) users
- Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility on a cluster and a VM
- Perform a Cross vCenter Server migration
- Use content libraries to share virtual machine templates between sites
- Manage VM and ESXi host res...

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:


- Configure VMware vCenter® and VMware ESXi™
- Configure and manage a vSphere cluster solution for vSphere HA, vSphere DRS, and vSAN
- Configure vSphere storage and networking
- Perform lifecycle operations on vSphere components
- Troubleshoot vSphere infrastructure and connectivity issues
- Back up vCenter configurations
- Implement solutions for securing the vSphere infrastructure

- System administrators
- System engineers