VMware vSphere: What's New [VMWN]

OVERVIEW

In this two-day VMware What's New course, you explore the new features and enhancements following VMware vCenter Server 8.0 and VMware ESXi 8.0. Real-world use-case scenarios, hands-on lab exercises, and lectures teach you the skills that you need to effectively implement and configure VMware vSphere 8.0.

Product Alignment:

• VMware ESXi 8.0
• VMware vCenter Server 8.0

OBJECTIVES

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

• Recognize the importance of key features and enhancements in vSphere 8.0
• Describe vCenter Server, VMware ESXi, storage, virtual machine, and security enhancements in vSphere 8.0
• Describe the purpose of vSphere Distributed Services Engine
• Update an ESXi host equipped with a Data Processing Unit (DPU) using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Identify devices supported for system storage on ESXi 8.0
• Recognize enhancements to VM hardware compatibility settings
• VMware vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation and the improvements to vSphere DRS
• Recognize the new Virtual Non-Uniform Memory Access (vNUMA) topology settings of a VM in vSphere Client
• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager and Auto Deploy to manage the configuration specifications for the hosts in a cluster
• Recognize the vSphere Lifecycle Manager and Auto Deploy enhancements in vSphere 8.0
• Recognize the cloud benefits that VMware vSphere+ brings to on-premises workloads
• Recognize technology that is discontinued or deprecated in vSphere 8.0

AUDIENCE

• System architects, system administrators
• IT managers
• VMware partners
• and individuals responsible for implementing and managing vSphere architectures who want to deploy vSphere 8.0 into their existing vSphere environment.

CONTENT

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

• Describe how device groups support AI and ML in vSphere 8
• Describe how device virtualization extensions support AI and ML in vSphere 8

3 vSphere Distributed Services Engine

• Describe the benefits of Distributed Services Engine
• Explain how Distributed Services Engine works
• Recognize use cases for Distributed Services Engine
• Install ESXi on a host equipped with a DPU
• View DPU information in vSphere Client
• Add an ESXi host equipped with a DPU to a cluster
• Update an ESXi host equipped with a DPU using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Create a vSphere Distributed Switch for network offloads
• Add a host with a DPU to the vSphere Distributed Switch
• Configure a VM to use Uniform Passthrough Mode

4 vSphere and vCenter Management

• Review the improvements to the communication between vCenter and ESXi hosts
• Review the enhancements to the vCenter recovery process

5 ESXi Enhancements

• Describe the function of the central configuration store in ESXi
• Explain how ConfigStore affects your interaction with ESXi configuration files
• Recognize the supported system storage partition configuration on ESXi 8.0
• Identify devices supported for system storage on ESXi 8.0
• Configure an RDMA host local device on ESXi

6 vSphere Storage

• Describe the vSAN Express Storage Architecture
• Recognize the benefits of using vSAN Express Storage Architecture
• Describe the benefits of using NVMe
• Recognize the support for NVMe devices in vSphere

7 Guest OS and Workloads

• Review the enhancements of the latest virtual hardware versions
• Describe the features introduced with virtual hardware version 20
• Create a snapshot of a VM with an NVDIMM device

8 Resource Management

• View energy and carbon emission metrics in vRealize Operations Manager
• Describe the VMware vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation (vMMR) functionality
• Describe how vMMR enhances the performance of vSphere DRS

9 Security and Compliance

• Describe how to handle vTPM secrets when cloning a VM
• Manage OVF templates for VMs that are configured with vTPM
• Deploy an OVF template with vTPM
• Describe the enhancements to trusted binary enforcement in ESXi
• Describe ESXi 8 enhanced security features

10 vSphere Lifecycle Manager

• Describe the enhancements to life cycle management of standalone ESXi hosts
• Manage the configuration profiles of ESXi hosts in a cluster with vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Use Auto Deploy to boot a host with the desired image and configuration specifications
• Upgrade multiple ESXi hosts in a cluster in parallel
• Stage an ESXi host image prior to remediation

11 Auto Deploy

• Manage custom host certificates using Auto Deploy

12 vSphere with Tanzu

• Describe the features of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0 offering

13 Announcing vSphere+

• Describe the functionality and benefits of vSphere+