This five-day, extended hour course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere® 8 management skills. Building on the installation and configuration content from our best-selling course
Building on the installation and configuration content from our best-selling course, you will also develop advanced skills needed to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you will install, configure, and manage vSphere 7. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size using vSphere 8, which includes VMware ESXi™ 8 and VMware vCenter Server® 8.
Audience:
New and experienced system administrators, systems engineers, and system integrators willing to work hard to achieve superior vSphere skills with minimal time away from the office.
Course Suitability
• System administrators
• System engineers
Prerequisites:
This course requires the following prerequisites:
• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
Course objectives:
• Install and configure ESXi hosts
• Deploy and configure vCenter
• Use the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users
• Configure vCenter High Availability
• Create and configure 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
• Configure and manage a VMware Tools Repository
• Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines
• Manage virtual machine resource use
• Migrate virtual machines with vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion
• Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with vSphere High Availability and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
• Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date
• Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
• Use host profiles to manage VMware ESXi host compliance
• Monitor the vCenter, ESXi, and VMs performance in the vSphere client
Certification
Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2022 (VCP-DCV 2022) exam. As per 4th of January 2023, no new release of the certification is available