(Online Delivery) VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage v8.0 Course

Description

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).

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 Prerequisites

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems is recommended.

Agenda

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 class is unique in that, by the end of the class, students will have built a complete vSphere 8.0 environment from scratch including installing and configuring ESXi 8.0 hosts and installing and configuring vCenter Server Appliance 8.0. We are the only major vSphere training provider where every student must install ESXi and vCenter to be successful.

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This class, built in conjunction with a local client in Buffalo NY, uses our standard VMware vSphere class outline as a base but adds additional focus on vSphere troubleshooting - giving students a more practical learning experience compared with the standard course introductory vSphere class.

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