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VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]

SS Course: 64220

Course Overview

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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.                                                                  

Scheduled Classes

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04/13/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led (click to enroll)
05/11/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led (click to enroll)
06/08/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led (click to enroll)

What You'll Learn

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Install and configure ESXi hosts
  • Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date
  • 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
  • Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines
  • Manage virtual machine resource allocation
  • By the end of the course you should be able to meet the following objectives:

Outline

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Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster.
  • Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations.
  • Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner.
  • Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports.
  • Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images.
  • Describe how to update hosts using baselines.
  • Describe ESXi images.
  • Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and update ESXi hosts.
  • Update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager.
  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives
  • Explain basic virtualization concepts.
  • Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and cloud infrastructure.
  • Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere.
  • Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs.
  • Install an ESXi host.
  • Recognize ESXi user account best practices.
  • Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client.
  • Recognize how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter.
  • Deploy the vCenter Server Appliance.
  • Configure vCenter settings.
  • Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys.
  • Create and organize vCenter inventory objects.
  • Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions.
  • View vCenter logs and events.
  • Configure and view standard switch configurations.
  • Configure and view distributed switch configurations.
  • Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches.
  • Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches.
  • Recognize vSphere storage technologies.
  • Identify types of vSphere datastores.
  • Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing.
  • Describe iSCSI components and addressing.
  • Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi.
  • Create and manage VMFS datastores.
  • Configure and manage NFS datastores.
  • Create and provision virtual machines (VMs).
  • Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries.
  • Deploy VMs from content libraries.
  • Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries.
  • Identify the files that make up a VM.
  • Recognize the components of a VM.
  • Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options.
  • Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources.
  • Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them.
  • Clone VMs.
  • Create customization specifications for guest operating systems.
  • Recognize the types of VM migrations that can be performed within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances.
  • Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations.
  • Take a snapshot of a VM.
  • Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots.
  • Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment.
  • Describe how VMs compete for resources.
  • Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits.
  • Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA.
  • Configure a vSphere HA cluster.
  • Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance.
  • View information about a vSphere cluster.
  • Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster.
  • Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings.
  • Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster.
  • Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures.
  • Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster.
  • Recognize vSphere HA design considerations.
  • Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings.

Prerequisites

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System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
  • Understanding of basic datacenter infrastructure, enterprise networking, and storage concepts
  • This course has the following prerequisites:

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    Who Should Attend

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    System administrators
    • System engineers

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