VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure V8 Training
Only 25% of IT teams say they’re fully confident in managing large-scale virtual environments. Are you ready?
The VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure [V8] course teaches advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. You'll work hands-on with VMware vSphere 8 features to optimize performance, enhance security, and scale operations across your enterprise. From managing large clusters to refining identity and encryption controls, this course helps you deepen your understanding of vSphere and apply its most powerful features with precision.
After completing this course, you’ll be equipped to manage and optimize a large-scale virtual infrastructure using vSphere 8. You’ll learn to:
- Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage in large environments
- Implement vSphere Replication and VM backup and recovery
- Manage ESXi compliance and automation with host profiles
- Monitor and secure vSphere environments using advanced tools
- Configure identity federation and VM encryption for secure operations
Experienced system administrators, system engineers, and system integrators
- Attend VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]
- Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter
- Experience with working at the command line is highly recommended.
Course logistics and objectives
- Configure a VMware Tools Repository
- Deploy and recover VMs using vSphere Replication
- Manage VM backup and restore
- Create and manage resource pools
- Understand scalable shares and vCLS behavior
- Configure vSphere Distributed Switches
- Network I/O Control, port mirroring, and NetFlow
- vSphere Distributed Services Engine
- Manage vSAN, NVMe, iSER, and Virtual Volumes
- Storage I/O Control and policy-based management
- vCenter High Availability setup
- ESXi compliance with host/configuration profiles
- Command line tools for certificate management
- Monitor VM, ESXi, and vCenter performance
- Create custom alarms
- VMware Skyline tools
- Secure vCenter, ESXi, and VMs
- Identity federation and access strategies
- Host authentication and VM encryption
- vSphere Trust Authority for sensitive workloads