VMware vSphere: What's New [V6.7 to V7]

The VMware vSphere: What's New [V6.7 to V7] course is a 3-day course that is designed to help students explore the new features and enhancements in VMware vCenter Server 7 and VMware ESXi 7. Real-world use-case deployment scenarios, hands-on lab exercises, and lectures help students learn the skills that they need to effectively implement and configure VMware vSphere 7.

This course is recommended for students who want to deploy vSphere 7 in their existing vSphere environment.

Listing and describing the importance of key features and enhancements in vSphere 6.7 update releases and vSphere 7

• Determining the proper upgrade path for a vCenter Server instance and upgrade VMware vCenter Server Appliance to version 7
• Migrating a Windows vCenter Server system to vCenter Server Appliance 7
• Managing and updating VM templates located in content libraries
• Using Identity Federation to configure vCenter Server to use Microsoft ADFS
• Using the VMware vSphere Client to manage certificates
• Describing vCenter Server, VMware ESXi, storage, network, virtual machine, and security enhancements in vSphere 7
• Using VMware vSphere Trust Authority to secure the infrastructure for encrypted VMs
• Demonstrating the Quickstart feature of the ESXi cluster
• Recognizing improvements to VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
• Using vSphere Lifecycle Manager to manage vSphere deployments, updates, and configurations
• Discussing the purpose and capabilities of VMware vSphere with Kubernetes and how it fits into the VMware Tanzu portfolio

System architects, system administrators, IT managers, VMware partners, and individuals responsible for implementing and managing vSphere architectures.

The course material presumes that students can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:

• Installing and configuring ESXi
• Installing vCenter Server
• Creating vCenter Server objects, such as data centers and folders
• Creating and managing vCenter Server roles and permissions
• Creating and modifying a standard switch
• Creating and modifying a distributed switch
• Connecting an ESXi host to NAS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel storage
• Creating a VMFS datastore
• Using a content library template to create a virtual machine
• Modify a virtual machine's hardware
• Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion
• Configuring and managing a vSphere DRS cluster
• Configuring and managing a VMware vSphere High Availability cluster
• Using VMware vSphere Update Manager to apply patches and performing upgrades to ESXi hosts and VMs

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Installation and Upgrade

• Describe the new vCenter Server Appliance deployment model
• Upgrade a vCenter Server Appliance instance to vCenter Server Appliance 7
• Migrate a Windows vCenter Server instance to vCenter Server Appliance 7
• Describe the enhancements to vCenter Server Appliance

Management Enhancements

• Identify the scaling and performance improvements for vCenter Server Appliance
• Describe the support provided for dynamic DNS
• Recognize how to change the IP address or FQDN of vCenter Server
• Describe prefix-based MAC address allocation
• Perform a VM template in-place update in Content Library
• Describe identity federation and recognize its use cases
• Configure identity federation
• Manage certificates using the vSphere Client
• Identify VMware NSX-T logical switches and their properties in the vSphere Client
• Explain the benefits of using VMware Skyline to proactively monitor your environment

ESXi Enhancements

• Upgrade an ESXi host to version 7
• List the enhancements introduced with ESXi 7
• Describe new device support for ESXi hosts
• Describe support for Precision Time Protocol

VM Enhancements

• Discuss the new functionality, virtual devices, and VM maximums supported by VM compatibility version 17
• Describe the enhancements to guest customization
• Perform a vSphere vMotion migration of VMs with remote devices

Storage Enhancements

• Describe the enhancements to NVMe support
• Describe the enhancements to VMware Pluggable Storage Architecture
• Describe the purpose of the High-Performance Plug-in
• Describe the support for iSER
• Recognize the changes made to the ESXi system storage layout
• Describe the support for CAB deployment of WSFC in vSphere 6.7 and later
• List the enhancements made to vSAN

Security Enhancements

• Describe the enhancements to the VM encryption feature
• Describe the enhancements to cloning, migration, and encryption operations
• Describe the benefits and use cases of vSphere Trust Authority
• Configure vSphere Trust Authority

Cluster Enhancements

• Demonstrate the Quick start feature of the ESXi cluster
• Recognize improvements to vSphere DRS
• Describe use cases for scalable shares

vSphere Lifecycle Management

• Use vCenter Server Update Planner to run vCenter Server upgrade prechecks
• Compare vSphere Lifecycle Manager to vSphere Update Manager
• Manage and update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager

Introduction to vSphere with Kubernetes

• Differentiate between containers and virtual machines
• Identify the parts of a container system
• Recognize the basic architecture of Kubernetes
• Describe a basic Kubernetes workflow
• Describe the purpose of vSphere with Kubernetes and how it fits into the VMware Tanzu portfolio
• Explain the vSphere with Kubernetes supervisor cluster
• Describe the Tanzu Kubernetes grid service

The course material presumes that you can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:

• Install and configure ESXi
• Install vCenter Server
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  The VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7] course is a 5-day course that is designed to teach students the advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, students will configure and optimize the VMware vSphere 7 features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure, and you discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect.

  Students attend this course will deepen their understanding of vSphere and learn how its advanced features and controls can benefit your organization.

  Topics covered in the course include:

  • Configuring and managing vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
  • Using VMware vSphere Client to manage certificates
  • Using Identity Federation to configure VMware vCenter Server to use Microsoft ADFS
  • Using VMware vSphere Trust Authority to secure the infrastructure for encrypted VMs
  • Using host profiles to manage VMware ESXi host compliance
  • Creating and managing a content library for deploying virtual machines
  • Managing VM resource usage with resource pools
  • Monitoring and analyzing key performance indicators for compute, storage, and networking resources for ESXi hosts
  • Optimizing the performance of ESXi and VMware vCenter Server
  • Discussing the purpose and capabilities of VMware vSphere with Kubernetes and how it fits into the VMware
    Tanzu portfolio

  Target Student:

  Experienced system admin

   

  Related Courses

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7]
• VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.4]
• VMware NSX: Troubleshooting and Operations [V6.4]