VMware vSphere 6.7 to 7.0: What’s New
In this three-day hands-on training, you explore the new features and enhancements of VMware vCenter Server® 7.0 and VMware ESXi™ 7.0. Deployment scenarios in real use cases, hands-on lab exercises, and lectures teach the skills needed to effectively implement and configure VMware vSphere® 7.
This course is recommended for customers who want to implement vSphere 7 into their existing vSphere environment.
COD: VSWN7
Categorie: VMware
Teaching methodology
The course includes educational laboratories in which each student will be able to work in order to complete training exercises that will provide practical experience in using the instrument, for each of the topics covered during the course.
Who should participate
System architects, system administrators, IT managers, VMware partners and people responsible for implementing and managing vSphere architectures.
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of one of the following courses or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale
- VMware vSphere: Fast Track
- VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting
The course material assumes that you are able to do the following without assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:
- Install and configure ESXi
- Installare vCenter Server
- Create vCenter Server objects, such as data centers and folders
- Create and manage vCenter Server roles and permissions
- Create and edit a standard switch
- Create and edit a distributed switch
- Connect an ESXi host to NAS, iSCSI or Fiber Channel storage
- Creating a VMware vSphere® VMFS datastore
- Use a content library template to create a virtual machine.
- Modify the hardware of a virtual machine
- Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®.
- Configuring and managing a VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ cluster.
- Configuring and managing a VMware vSphere® High Availability cluster
- Use VMware vSphere® Update ManagerTM to patch and perform updates to ESXi hosts and virtual machines
Outgoing knowledge/skills
By the end of the course, you should be able to achieve the following objectives:
- Recognize the importance of key features and enhancements in vSphere 6.7 and vSphere 7 update releases.
- Migrare un sistema vCenter Server per Windows a VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ 7.0.
- Upgrade a vCenter Server instance to vSphere 7
- Describe the vCenter Server, VMware ESXi™, storage, networking, virtual machines, and security improvements in vSphere 7.
- Update templates in the content library
- Use Identity Federation to configure vCenter Server to use external identity sources.
- Use VMware vSphere® Client™ to manage certificates.
- Use VMware vSphere® Trust Authority™ to secure infrastructure for encrypted virtual machines.
- Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to manage vSphere deployments and updates.
- Describe cloning and migration operations on encrypted virtual machines.
- Describe the purpose of scalable shares and the enhancements made to vSphere DRS.
- Describe how to change the vCenter Server IP address or FQDN.
- Identify the new hardware device support in ESXi 7.0
- Acknowledge the improvements available with VM version 17 compatibility
- Acknowledge the improvements available with VM compatibility version 18
- Recognize the importance of containers and Kubernetes in a modern data center.
Participation in this course allows candidates with a valid VCP-DCV 2019 to progress to VCP-DCV 2020 without taking the certification exam.
Educational program
1 Introduction to the course
- Introduction and logistics of the course
- Objectives of the course
2 Installation and update
- Describe the new vCenter Server Appliance deployment model.
- Upgrade a vCenter Server Appliance instance to vCenter Server Appliance 7.0
- Migrate a Windows vCenter Server instance to vCenter Server Appliance 7.0
- Identify vCenter Server Appliance enhancements
- Upgrade an ESXi host to version 7.0
3 Management improvements
- Recognize how to create and apply vCenter Server profiles
- Identify the scalability and performance improvements of the vCenter Server Appliance.
- Describe the support provided for dynamic DNS
- Know how to change the vCenter Server IP address or FQDN.
- Identify improvements to vCenter Server file-based backup.
- Identify enhancements to the tools provided by the vSphere Client Developer Center.
- Describe prefix-based MAC address allocation
- Identify VMware NSX-T™ logical switches and their properties in vSphere Client.
- Use virtual distributed port groups to connect to NSX-T Data Center logical switches.
- Use vSphere Bitfusion to support AI and machine learning based workloads.
- Describe version control and management of virtual machine templates in the Content Library.
- Perform an in-place upgrade of virtual machine templates in the Content Library
- Describe identity federation and recognize its use cases
- Configurare la identity federation
- Manage certificates using the vSphere client
- Explain the benefits and features of VMware Skyline™.
4 ESXi improvements
- Acknowledge ESXi security enhancements.
- Identify hardware support updates in ESXi 7.0
- Describe support for AMD SEV-ES in vSphere 7
- Recognize changes to the layout of ESXi 7.0 system storage partitions
- Describe the improvements made to ESXi timekeeping options in vSphere 7
- Describe the improvements to vSphere vMotion in vSphere 7
5 Improvements to virtual machines
- Identify the features of the virtual machine compatibility layer for ESXi 7.0
- Describe the support provided for new virtual devices in vSphere 7
- Recognize improvements to guest customization
- Migrate virtual machines with attached devices
6 Storage improvements
- Describe improvements to NVMe support
- Describe the enhancements to VMware Pluggable Storage Architecture
- Describe the purpose of the high performance plug-in
- Describe support for iSER in vSphere 7
- Describe support for iSER in vSphere 7
- Find VMware vSAN™ enhancements for vSphere 7.
7 Security improvements
- Describe improvements to cloning, migration, and encryption operations.
- Identify improvements to the virtual machine encryption architecture in vSphere 7.
- Acknowledge new virtual machine encryption events and alarms.
- Describe the benefits and use cases of VMware vSphere® Trust Authority™.
- Explain the general architecture of vSphere Trust Authority
- Configure the vSphere Trust Authority
8 Cluster improvements
- Recognize how to set up clusters using the vSphere Cluster Quickstart workflow.
- Acknowledge improvements to vSphere DRS
- Identify improvements to vSphere ESX Agent Manager
- Describe scalable shares
- Configuring VMware vSphere® DirectPath I/O™
9 vSphere lifecycle management
- Describe the features of vCenter Server Update Planner
- Run vCenter Server upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports
- Descrivere vSphere Lifecycle Manager
- Confrontare vSphere Lifecycle Manager con vSphere Update Manager
- Identify the components of an ESXi image
- Describe the integration of vSphere Lifecycle Manager and NSX-T Data Center
- Define a cluster image and upgrade ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager.
10 Introduction to VMware vSphere® with Tanzu
- Distinguish between containers and virtual machines
- Identify the parts of a container system
- Recognize the steps of a basic Docker workflow
- Explain the importance of Kubernetes
- Recognize the basic architecture of Kubernetes
- Describe a basic Kubernetes workflow
- Identify vSphere features and benefits with Tanzu
- Describe the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service
Duration – 3 days
Delivery – in Classroom, On Site, Remote
PC and SW requirements:
- Internet connection
- Web browser, Google Chrome
- Zoom
Language
Trainer: Italiano
Labs: Inglese
Slides: Inglese