VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage v8.0 Course
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 intensive, five-day training program offers immersive hands-on training in VMware vSphere v8. You’ll gain experience with ESXi, vCenter Server, virtual networking, storage, content libraries, high-availability clusters, and Lifecycle Manager. The course provides the technical foundation required to support, automate, and optimize virtualized enterprise infrastructure using VMware’s latest tools and best practices.
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 and vCenter Server
- Create and manage virtual machines, templates, and snapshots
- Set up and manage virtual networking and storage
- Deploy HA-enabled clusters and configure DRS policies
- Apply updates and manage host compliance with Lifecycle Manager
This course is intended for:
- System administrators responsible for deploying and supporting virtualized infrastructure
- System engineers managing VMware environments in enterprise data centers
- Professionals looking to gain practical VMware experience or pursue VMware certification
System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Basic virtualization concepts
- vSphere in the software-defined data center and cloud
- vSphere user interfaces (vSphere Client, DCUI, Host Client)
- vSphere interaction with CPU, memory, networks, storage, GPUs
- Install ESXi host
- ESXi user account best practices
- Configure host settings via DCUI and VMware Host Client
- ESXi host communication with vCenter
- Configure vCenter settings
- Manage license keys in vSphere Client
- Create and organize inventory objects
- Apply and manage vCenter permissions
- View vCenter logs and events
- Standard vs. distributed switch configurations
- Networking policies on switches
- Differences between standard and distributed switches
- vSphere storage technologies and datastore types
- Fibre Channel: components and addressing
- iSCSI: components, addressing, configuration on ESXi
- VMFS datastore creation and management
- NFS datastore configuration and management
- Create and provision VMs
- VMware Tools importance
- VM components and files
- Modify VM settings and dynamically scale resources
- VM templates: create, deploy, manage versions
- VM cloning
- Customization specifications for guest OS
- Content libraries: local, published, subscribed
- Deploy VMs from content libraries
- VM migrations: vMotion, Storage vMotion, cross-vCenter
- Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
- Snapshots: create, manage, consolidate, delete
- CPU and memory in virtualization
- Resource allocation: shares, reservations, limits
- Create DRS and HA clusters
- Cluster information and monitoring
- vSphere DRS: VM placement, settings, use cases
- vSphere HA: responses to failures, redundancy options, design considerations, settings
- Configure HA cluster
- vSphere Fault Tolerance: when to use
- vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) features
- vCenter Update Planner
- Upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports
- Host management: baselines vs. images
- Updating hosts with baselines and images
- ESXi image validation and compliance
- vLCM recommendations and automation
- Upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware