VMware vSphere: Fast Track Training [V8]
What’s the fastest way to go from beginner to advanced vSphere administrator? The VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V8] course combines foundational training with advanced administration skills in a single, immersive five-day program.
Through extended hours of instructor-led training and intensive labs, you’ll learn to install, configure, and manage vSphere 8—covering VMware ESXi™ 8 and VMware vCenter Server® 8. You’ll gain the ability to build, scale, and maintain a highly available virtual infrastructure, explore networking and storage strategies, and practice life cycle management.
This accelerated course is designed for IT professionals who want to quickly advance from setup and deployment into complex operations, ensuring they can support enterprise-level virtual environments.
By the end of this course, you will be able to confidently administer VMware vSphere 8 in enterprise environments.
- Install and configure VMware ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
- Create and manage virtual machines, templates, and content libraries
- Migrate workloads using vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion
- Configure and maintain clusters with High Availability, DRS, and Fault Tolerance
- Monitor, update, and ensure compliance using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
This course is designed for:
- System Administrators responsible for deploying and maintaining virtual infrastructure
- System Engineers who manage VMware vSphere environments at scale
- IT professionals seeking advanced VMware training in a single, accelerated format
System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
- Welcome, introductions, course logistics
- Review of course objectives
- Core virtualization concepts
- vSphere in the software-defined data center and cloud
- Interfaces to access vSphere
- vSphere interaction with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, GPUs
- Installing an ESXi host
- Communication between ESXi hosts and vCenter
- Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
- Adjust vCenter settings and manage license keys
- Create and organize inventory objects
- Apply permissions and understand rules
- View tasks and events
- vCenter backup schedules
- vCenter High Availability
- Standard vs. distributed switch setups
- Networking policies on switches
- Configuring and managing distributed switches
- Network I/O Control for performance
- vSphere Distributed Services Engine
- Storage technologies and datastore types
- Fibre Channel and iSCSI (concepts + configuration)
- VMFS and NFS datastores
- NVMe and iSER support
- vSAN architecture and requirements
- Policy-based storage management
- vSphere Virtual Volumes
- Configuring Storage I/O Control
- Create and provision VMs
- VMware Tools role
- VM files and components
- VM settings and dynamic resource scaling
- VM templates, cloning, and customization specs
- Content libraries (local, published, subscribed)
- Managing template versions in libraries
- VM migrations (vMotion, Storage vMotion, EVC, cross-vCenter)
- Snapshots: create, manage, delete
- CPU and memory resource management (shares, reservations, limits)
- VMware Tools Repository
- Backup and restore options
- Cluster Quickstart for HA and DRS
- Cluster information and monitoring
- vSphere DRS (placement, settings, use cases)
- vSphere HA (responses, redundancy, settings)
- vSphere Fault Tolerance use cases
- vCLS function and impact
- vSphere Lifecycle Manager (features, images, compliance, remediation, recommendations)
- Upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware
- ESXi configuration compliance (host and configuration profiles)
- Factors impacting VM and vCenter performance
- vCenter tools for monitoring resource consumption
- Create and manage custom alarms
- VMware Skyline and Skyline Advisor Pro use cases