VMware vSphere: Install Configure Manage v8.0

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Course Overview

Want to run, secure, and scale enterprise virtualization like a pro? Over 70% of enterprise workloads run on virtualized infrastructure, and VMware vSphere leads the industry in scalability and performance. IT professionals with the skills to install, configure, and manage VMware platforms are essential to modern data center teams.

This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 8, which includes VMware ESXi 8 and VMware vCenter 8. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. This course is the foundation for most VMware technologies in the software-defined data center. Attendance of this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification: VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for:

  • System Administrators and System Engineers

Course Objectives

    This course prepares you to build, configure, and manage vSphere environments that meet enterprise performance and availability standards. By the end, you’ll be equipped to support scalable, secure, and efficient virtual infrastructure operations.

    • Install and configure ESXi hosts
    • Deploy and configure vCenter
    • Use the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users
    • Create virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches
    • Create and configure datastores using storage technologies supported by vSphere
    • Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
    • Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines
    • Manage virtual machine resource allocation
    • Migrate virtual machines with vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion
    • Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with vSphere High Availability (HA) and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
    • Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date

Course Outline

  • Course Introduction
  • vSphere and Virtualization Overview
  • Installing and Configuring ESXi
  • Deploying and Configuring vCenter
  • Configuring vSphere Networking
  • Configuring vSphere Storage
  • Deploying Virtual Machines
  • Managing Virtual Machines
  • Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters
  • Managing the vSphere Lifecycle

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This is a 5-day class

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