Training: VMware vSphere v7 – What’s New

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ITTA | Trainings | IT Pro | Virtualization | VMware vSphere v7 – What’s New

Description

In this three-day, hands-on training course, you will 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 will teach you the skills that you need to effectively implement and configure VMware vSphere® 7. This course is recommended for customers who want to deploy vSphere 7 into their existing vSphere environment.

Participant profiles

System administrators, IT managers, System architects and individuals responsible for implementing or managing vSphere environments

Objectives

List and describe key enhancements in vSphere 7
Use VMware vSphere Client, VMware Host Client, and the VMware vCenter Server Appliance bshell
Add users to the lockdown exception users list and test the lockdown mode
Configure virtual machines to check for and install newer versions of VMware Tools
Upgrade virtual machines to the current hardware
Create a multisite content library for synchronizing virtual machine templates, vApps, ISO images, and scripts across vCenter Server instances
Enable the VMware vSphere Authentication Proxy service to automatically add new hosts to the Active Directory domain
Configure NFS- and iSCSI-backed virtual volumes to provide a common storage platform, independent of the underlying storage hardware
Create storage policies and use these policies with virtual machines and virtual volume datastores
Work with VMware vSphere Network I/O Control to create and configure a distributed switch
Use VMware vSphere vMotion to migrate virtual machines across vCenter Server instances
Activate the high availability feature of vCenter Server Appliance
Back up a vCenter Server Appliance instance by using a file-based backup solution from the vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface
Use virtual machine encryption to encrypt and decrypt virtual disks
Use encrypted vSphere vMotion to securely migrate virtual machines
Migrate from Windows vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance

Prerequisites

Experience in administration with VMware ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server

Course content

Module 1: Course Introduction

Lesson 1: Introductions and course logistics
Lesson 2: Course objectives

Module 2: New Features in vSphere 7

Lesson 1: Use vSphere Client, VMware Host Client, and the vCenter Server Appliance shell
Lesson 2: Discuss the new features and enhancements in vSphere 7

Module 3: Installation and Upgrade

Lesson 1: Describe new vCenter Server architecture features
Lesson 2: Choose between a distributed configuration and an embedded configuration, based on your requirements
Lesson 3: Describe the enhancements to vCenter Server Appliance
Lesson 4: Describe how to upgrade vCenter Server 5.x and 6.0 to vCenter Server 7
Lesson 5: Describe how to upgrade an ESXi 5.x host to an ESXi 7 host
Lesson 6: Summarize the purpose of content libraries in a vSphere environment
Lesson 7: Discuss the vSphere requirements for content libraries
Lesson 8: Create a local content library
Lesson 9: Subscribe to a published content library
Lesson 10: Deploy virtual machines from a content library

Module 4: Compute Enhancements

Lesson 1: Discuss the enhancements to vSphere 7 scalability and performance
Lesson 2: Discuss the additional features to support hot-plug and SMART solid-state drives
Lesson 3: Discuss the improvements to lockdown settings
Lesson 4: Describe the addition of smart-card authentication
Lesson 5: Explain the changes that enhance user accountability
Lesson 6: Discuss how virtual hardware 11 and 13 extend virtual machine resource configurations
Lesson 7: Describe how using large receive offload reduces CPU-associated costs for network packet processing
Lesson 8: Discuss how hot-add memory is distributed across NUMA nodes in vSphere 7

Module 5: Storage Enhancements

Lesson 1: Describe the new features of VMFS 7
Lesson 2: Describe the migration procedure from VMFS5 to VMFS 7
Lesson 3: Discuss the benefits of using NFS v4.1 with vSphere
Lesson 4: Identify the differences between NFS v3 and NFS v4.1
Lesson 5: Describe the implications of using NFS v4.1
Lesson 6: Describe the VMware vSAN enhancements in the following areas: Scalability, Performance, Availability, Space efficiency, Operational, Usability
Lesson 7: Describe the benefits of using virtual volumes
Lesson 8: Describe per-virtual machine, policy-based policy management
Lesson 9: Describe how VMDK data operations are offloaded to storage arrays through the use of VMware vSphere API for Storage Awareness
Lesson 10: Describe the interoperability enhancements to VMware vSphere Storage DRS and VMware vSphere Storage I/O Control
Lesson 11: Describe the enhancements to vSphere Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control that improve adherence to configured maximums and reservations

Module 6: Security Enhancements

Lesson 1: Plan for secure boot support for ESXi hosts
Lesson 2: Use encryption in your vSphere environment
Lesson 3: Encrypt virtual machines
Lesson 4: Explain how to back up encrypted virtual machines
Lesson 5: Encrypt core dumps
Lesson 6: Enable encrypted vSphere vMotion
Lesson 7: Deploy enhanced vCenter Server events and alarms, and vSphere logging

Module 7: Network Enhancements

Lesson 1: Use Network I/O Control
Lesson 2: Upgrade Network I/O Control to version 3
Lesson 3: Enable network resource management on VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™
Lesson 4: Configure bandwidth allocation for system and virtual machine traffic based on shares and reservation
Lesson 5: Discuss IPv6 support in vSphere 7
Lesson 6: Explain how the gateway per vmknic feature works and how it is configured
Lesson 7: Explain the new ERSPAN headers supported in vSphere 7 and how they are configured
Lesson 8: Describe the areas where performance improvements were made in vSphere 7

Module 8: Management Enhancements

Lesson 1: List the core security modules that are part of VMware Platform Services Controller™
Lesson 2: List the VMware certificate management components
Lesson 3: Describe certificate use changes in vSphere 7
Lesson 4: List the certificate management components that are part of Platform Services Controller
Lesson 5: Describe the primary services provided by the VMware Certificate Authority component
Lesson 6: Describe the primary services provided by the VMware Endpoint Certificate Store component
Lesson 7: Define VMware CA certificate replacement options
Lesson 8: Describe ESXi certificate replacement options
Lesson 9: Discuss certificate-based guest authentication

Module 9: Availability Enhancements

Lesson 1: Describe how vCenter Serve High Availability works
Lesson 2: Describe how Platform Services Controller high availability works
Lesson 3: Configure vCenter Server High Availability and Platform Services Controller high availability
Lesson 4: Describe the TCP/IP stack for vSphere vMotion that was introduced in vSphere 7
Lesson 5: Explain the changes that make vSphere vMotion migrations across high-latency networks possible
Lesson 6: Discuss the requirements for migrating a virtual machine across vCenter Server instances
Lesson 7: Explain how VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance in vSphere 6.0 supports virtual machines with multiple virtual CPUs
Lesson 8: Describe how vSphere Fault Tolerance maintains the secondary virtual machine in a ready state
Lesson 9: Explain the mechanism by which the primary virtual machine is determined
Lesson 10: Discuss the improvements made in handling all paths down (APD) and permanent device lost (PDL) conditions
Lesson 11: Describe the increased scalability of vSphere HA
Lesson 12: Explain the additional compatibility supported by vSphere HA
Lesson 13: Explain the enhancement of vSphere HA admission control in vSphere 7
Lesson 14: Describe the improvement of vSphere HA orchestrated restarts
Lesson 15: Discuss how Proactive HA helps reduce VM downtime
Lesson 16: Describe when to use these advanced vSphere DRS options in vSphere 7
Lesson 17: Describe VM distribution
Lesson 18: Discuss memory metrics for load balancing
Lesson 19: Describe CPU over commitment
Lesson 20: Reduce the need for vSphere HA with Proactive HA
Lesson 21: Increase VM and workload uptime with Predictive DRS

Documentation

Digital courseware included

Lab / Exercises

Lab 1: Course Introduction
Lab 2: New Features in vSphere 7
Lab 3: Installation and Upgrade
Lab 4: Compute Enhancements
Lab 5: Storage Enhancements
Lab 6: Security Enhancements
Lab 7: Network Enhancements
Lab 8: Management Enhancements
Lab 9: Availability Enhancements

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