VMware vSphere 8.0 with ESXi and vCenter – Lab Guide

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VMware vSphere 8.0 with ESXi and vCenter – Lab Guide

Your Complete How-To Guide For Installing, Configuring and Administering vSphere 8.0

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This course e-book includes 18 chapters and 251 pages of detailed hands-on lab tasks. ESXLab.com‘s VMware vSphere 8.0 Lab Guide will take you step by step through 41 major tasks that covers every major task you need to build a complete, working VMware vSphere 8.0 environment from scratch.

Major vSphere 8.0 Lab Tasks included in our Lab Guide

1. Connect to your dedicated Remote Lab environment
2. Install ESXi 8.0, and perform post-install configurations
3. Create, update Standard vSwitches. Use pNIC Teams for performance and redundancy
4. Define, connect to and browse NFS based datastores
5. Create a Virtual Machine and install a guest OS into the VM
6. Install VMware Tools into a VM. Add 3rd party tools and utilities into a VM
7. Export a VM in Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) and then re-import it back into ESXi
8. Install and configure the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)
9. Configure vCSA Single Sign On (SSO) identity sources including Active Directory
10. Configure vCenter’s inventory views to organize inventory objects
11. Import ESXi hosts into vCenter management
12. Work with VM Clones and Templates. Convert a VM into a template
13. Rapidly deploy new VMs from template
14. Perform ad-hoc VMs rapid deployments using VM cloning
15. Rapidly deploy VMs using Guest OS Customization Specifications
16. Work with hot-add virtual hardware
17. Hot add, and then grow, a secondary virtual disk
18. Grow a Windows system disk and partition with no downtime
19. Configure and test hot plug memory
20. Hot plug a new virtual CPU package into a running VM
21. Configure the Software iSCSI adapter. Scan for and review SAN based storage volumes
22. Create a new VMware VMFS 6 datastore
23. Grow VMFS volumes using LUN Spans
24. Growing a LUN and expand the VMFS partition into the added space
25. Review and update VMFS properties including Space Reclaim
26. Review and select the best VMFS multipath policy for optimal performance and redundancy
27. Work with vCenter permissions using stock and custom Roles
28. Configure vCenter alarms to monitor select infrastructure objects
29. Configure Alarm actions to Send SNMP traps to a trap receiver on high VM compute resource use
30. Create and tune Resource Pools. Test Resource Pool compute resource delegations
31. Cold Migrate VMs from one ESXi host and storage volume to another
32. Hot VMotion migrate the running compute state of a VM from one ESXi host to another
33. Hot Storage migrate the running disk state of a VM from one datastore to another
34. Build and test an automated compute resource load balancing DRS cluster
35. Create and configure a VMware High Availability cluster
36. Manually fail a host and watch the cluster place and restart impacted VMs onto healthy hosts
37. Set up VMware Lifecycle Manager to update/update ESXi hosts
38. Perform an ESXi host Compliance Scan, review host non-compliance
39. Use VLM to automatically upgrade an ESXi 7.0 host to ESXi 8.0
40. Use VLM to upgrade a VM’s virtual hardware to ESXi 8.0 compatibility
41. Configure and test Memory de-duplication with Transparent Page Sharing

This Lab Guide is usually provided to attendees of ESXLab’s powerful 5-day intensive introduction to VMware vSphere™ 8.0 including VMware ESXi™ 8.0 and vCenter™ 8.0 instructor led training course.

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