Introduction to VMware vSphere 8

This short but comprehensive course is designed to enable learners to get familiar with the world most popular infrastructure virtualization technology known as VMWare vSphere 8. In this course, Learners would be able to quickly ramp-up themselves to understand Interfacing with vSphere 8 and basic steps to create and connect VMs with other VMs as well as to the outer world (Physical Network).

Not only this, learner would be in a better position to understand storage technology and to connect iSCSI / FC storages with vCenter Server/ESXi hosts.

This course is the stepping stone for those who are seeking advanced hands-on with VMware vSphere 8 and preparing for VCP-DCV certification.

This Segment is about general introduction to Virtualization technology. How it can benefit businesses and how many types of virtualization we can have.

In this lesson, we shall understand the role of hyper-visor (Like ESXi host). How you can Access its various interfaces.

In this lecture, the speaker was mainly talking about general introduction to vsphere and its basic components. How these components are treated and their high level purpose.

In this lecture the speaker is going to explain about the VM and its management through vsphere Graphical User Interface and other available interfaces to connect to ESXi host and managing ESXi host through vSphere Client or vCenter Server.

In this lecture the speaker is going to explain vSphere virtual networking which creates a virtual network environment for these VMs to communicate with each other and with the outside of virtual world, just like physical machines do on a physical network. But stay tuned, this is just a brief and we got a whole module to explain virtual networking with practice and examples.

In this lecture the speaker is going to explain general information about virtualization and its types and a complete overview of what learner have already learnt through the past number of lessons and now its the time to have a recap and then prepare for the quiz.

We are providing you handholding, how to access the lab and to interact with the interface of the lab. Please, also look into the resources tab of this course for accessing lab precise steps to perform.

In this lecture, learner will be able to understand vSphere 8 and its general integration with vCenter Server. How vCenter Server and ESXi host (Hyper-visor) work together to produce and manage VM lifecycle.

In this lecture, the speaker was mainly talking about ESXi host and vCenter Server as vSphere Components and how to communicate with one another. What are the porst which are used and how vCSA manages ESXi hosts and VMs

In this lecture, the learner will be able to understand How vCenter Server Appliance connect with ESXi host and manage. vCenter Server intenal architecture includes OS, App and local database.

In this lecture, learner will be able to recognize some of the new feature sets offered in vSphere version 8 with its backward compatibility as well. some of the features are as mentioned below:

1. Dynamic Direct Path I/O

2. vSAN ESA

In this section, your trainer will repeat and explain shortly all what that has been taught. And, will prepare you for the Quiz to assess your knowledge. Please, do complete the quiz with 65% accuracy otherwise repeat the session and pay attention to understand relevant topics explained.

In this section your trainer will provide you with documentations and links to access your relevant lab and do your hands-on / practice

In this lecture, the learner will be able to understand basic networking techniques used in vSphere 8. Learner will also be able to connect VMs withing virtual environment or to the physical environment for basic networking architecture design for their applications running on top of ESXi host.

After completing this lesson, learner would be able to describe

• What are Security Policies

• What are teaming policies and their implications

• Understand Failback and Network Failure detection options

• What is the significance of Forged Transmits and MAC Address changes options

After completing this lesson, learner would be able to describe

• Physically Isolated Network topology

• Logically Isolated Network Topology

• What is the difference in between these two topologies?

  
  

In this section, your trainer will repeat and explain shortly all what that has been taught. And, will prepare you for the Quiz to assess your knowledge. Please, do complete the quiz with 65% accuracy otherwise repeat the session and pay attention to understand relevant topics explained.

In this section your trainer will provide you with documentations and links to access your relevant lab and do your hands-on / practice

In this Lecture, the learner will be able to find out various storage technologies supported by VMware vSphere 8 and how to integrate with VMs. Learner will be able to administer storage for various application needs running on top of ESXi host.

Moreover, learner would be in a better position to design and implement "Storage Policy based Management - SPBM" as well.

After completing this lesson, learner would be able to describe

• What is Data-store

• What are the types of Data-store

• What is VMFS datastore and its characteristics

• What is NFS datastore and its characteristics

  
  

After completing this lesson, learner would be able to describe

• Datastore Structure and why is it needed

• Storage protocols supported by VMFS Datastore

• What is the maximum capacity of a VMFS Datastore

• what is the internal datastore structure for both NFS and VMFS

  
  

After completing this lesson, learner would be able to describe

• Types of Disks used in VMs (Thick or Thin)

• What is the purpose of Independent (Persistent/Non-Persistent) disks

• Use cases

After completing this lesson, learner would be able to describe

• VMFS based Storage Policy

• Custom Policies (IOPs and other features to configure)

• What is Storage Input/Output Control (SIOC)

After completing this lesson, learner would be able to describe

• VMFS and NFS Network Requirements

• VMFS and NFS Software Requirements

  
  

In this section, your trainer will repeat and explain shortly all what that has been taught. And, will prepare you for the Quiz to assess your knowledge. Please, do complete the quiz with 65% accuracy otherwise repeat the session and pay attention to understand relevant topics explained.

In this section your trainer will provide you with documentations and links to access your relevant lab and do your hands-on / practice