VMware vSphere: What's New

This course requires completion of one the following courses or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage – VSICM
• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale – VSOS
• VMware vSphere: Fast Track – VSFT
• VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting – VST

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
• Create vCenter Server objects, such as data centers and folders
• Create and manage vCenter Server roles and permissions
• Create and modify a standard switch
• Create and modify a distributed switch
• Connect an ESXi host to NAS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel storage
• Create a VMFS datastore
• Use 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®
• Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster
• Configure and manage a VMware vSphere® High Availability cluster
• Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches and perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and VMs

If you cannot complete these tasks, we recommend you instead to take the ‘VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]’ – VSICM course

• 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.

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+