Course Overview
Overview
This 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.
Product Alignment
- VMware ESXi 8.0
- VMware vCenter 8.0
Who Should Attend
- System administrators
- System engineers
Prerequisites
This course has the following prerequisites:
System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
Certification
VMware Certified Professional: Data Center Virtualization 2022 (VCP-DCV 2022) The VCP-DCV 2022 Certification validates candidate skills to implement, manage, and troubleshoot a vSphere infrastructure, using best practices to provide a powerful, flexible, and secure foundation for
business agility that can accelerate the transformation to cloud computing
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following 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
- 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 VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
- Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and
- VMware 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
| 2026 CLASSES | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun |
| – | 17 – 20 | – | 20 – 23 | – | 8 – 11 |
| Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| – | 10 – 13 | – | 5 – 8 | – | 14 – 17 |
